SEO, Cookies, and Advanced Rules

The Behaviour tab (Age Verification → Settings → Behaviour) controls how long visitors stay verified, who skips the gate, which pages never show it, and test mode.

Cookies: remember verified visitors

After a visitor passes, the plugin stores a small cookie called age_verified in their browser. Remember verified visitors for (days) sets how long it lasts (default 30). The cookie contains no personal data and uses the SameSite and Secure flags.

Show “Remember me” lets visitors choose: ticked keeps them verified for the full number of days; unticked only for the current browser session.

Test mode

With Test mode on, only administrators see the gate — perfect while you set it up. Turn it off to go live; the Status card on the General tab and the dashboard widget switch to Live after you save.

SEO: let search engines crawl

Let search engines crawl without the popup (on by default) lets Googlebot, Bingbot and other major crawlers see your pages without the gate, so your shop stays indexed.

Skip the gate for logged-in users

Customers and members who are logged in are not asked again.

Count verifications

Shows how many visitors passed or were turned away. Only daily totals are stored in your own database — no IP addresses or personal data, and nothing is sent to other services. Your own visits in test mode and preview are not counted. Turn it off at any time.

Pages without the popup

Tick the pages that should never show the gate, such as your privacy policy, terms, contact or “Sorry” page. Use the search box to find pages quickly. For posts and WooCommerce products, open the item and tick Never show the age gate on this page in the Age verification box. These choices carry over to Pro.

Caching

The plugin checks the cookie in the visitor’s browser, so it works with WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, Cloudflare and server caching. After you change the popup or turn test mode off, clear your page cache once.

Need more rules?

Pro shows the gate only in countries that require it, gates single products or categories, schedules the gate, locks out repeat attempts and signs the verification cookie so it can’t be faked.