Problems with cookiebar and avia_gdpr_permanent_hide_message_bar

Wordpress 5.8 Enfold child 4.8.4

I do not want the cookibar modal/overlay on all page footers, but need to include the [av_privacy_modal_popup_button] shortcode in a Privacy policy so users can manage their cookies.

Using functions.php add_theme_support(‘avia_gdpr_permanent_hide_message_bar’); does not seem to suppress the footer cooke bar, which is clearly conflicting with something else in the site as it always loads expanded and the buttons are inconsistent. Looks like this:

or in relatime skkmods.com

So two questions:
(1) What do I need to do to force the site to respect avia_gdpr_permanent_hide_message_bar suppress ?
(2) Any idea what may be causing the cookiebar expansion ?

• This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by hbaumhardt.