Plugin / GeoIP Detection
Yellow Tree (Benjamin Pick)Description
Description
Provides geographic information detected by an IP adress. This can be used in themes or other plugins,
as a shortcode, or via CSS body classes. The city & country names are translated in different languages (supported languages).
Features:
- Provides these 5 functions (see API Documentation):
geoip_detect2_get_info_from_ip($ip, $locales = array('en'), $options = array())
: Lookup Geo-Information of the specified IPgeoip_detect2_get_info_from_current_ip($locales = array('en'), $options = array())
: Lookup Geo-Information of the current website usergeoip_detect2_get_current_source_description(...)
: Return a human-readable label of the currently chosen source.geoip_detect2_get_external_ip_adress()
: Fetch the internet adress of the webservergeoip_detect2_get_client_ip()
: Get client IP (even if it is behind a reverse proxy)
- You can use one of these data sources (see comparison):
- Free: Maxmind GeoIP2 Lite City, automatically updated every month (licensed CC BY-SA. See FAQ.)
- Commercial: Maxmind GeoIP2 City or Maxmind GeoIP2 Country
- Commercial Web-API: Maxmind GeoIP2 Precision (City, Country or Insights)
- Free (default source): HostIP.info (IPv4 only)
- Hosting-Provider dependent: Cloudflare or Amazon AWS CloudFront (Country)
- Free or Commercial Web-API: Ipstack
- For the property names, see the results of a specific IP in the wordpress backend (under Tools > GeoIP Detection).
- You can include these properties into your posts and pages by using the shortcode
[geoip_detect2 property="country.name" default="(country could not be detected)" lang="en"]
(where ‘country.name’ can be one of the other property names as well, and ‘default’ and ‘lang’ are optional). - You can show or hide content by using a shortcode
[geoip_detect2_show_if country="FR, DE" not_city="Berlin"]TEXT[/geoip_detect2_show_if]
. See Shortcode Documentation. - When enabled on the options page, it adds CSS classes to the body tag such as
geoip-province-HE
,geoip-country-DE
andgeoip-continent-EU
. - When enabled on the options page, the client IP respects a reverse proxy of the server.
- If you are using Contact Form 7, you can use these shortcodes:
- A select input with all countries, the detected country being selected by default:
[geoip_detect2_countries mycountry]
- A text input that is pre-filled with the detected city (or other property):
[geoip_detect2_text_input city property:city lang:fr id:id class:class default:Paris]
- GeoIP information for the email text:
[geoip_detect2_user_info]
- A select input with all countries, the detected country being selected by default:
See Documentation for more info.
How can I use these functions?
- You could choose the currency of the store based on the country name
- You could suggest an timezone to use when displaying dates
- You could show the store nearest to your customer
- You show or hide content specific to a geographic target group
- Etc. … You tell me! I’m rather curious what you’ll do with this plugin!
- Be careful to comply to the applicable laws. For example Regulation (EU) 2018/302 (going into effect 03 Dec 2018)…
System Requirements: You will need at least PHP 5.4.
GDPR: This plugin does not store any cookie or user-dependent data. If you use a web-based source (hostip.info, Maxmind Precision, ipstack), the plugin stores all IPs that visited the site in a cache (by default for 7 days) for performance reasons. If you want to disable this behavior, add define('GEOIP_DETECT_READER_CACHE_TIME', 0);
in your theme’s function.php
. Be especially careful when using geographic information to change prices or selling options, as this might not be legal.
This extension is “charity-ware”. If you are happy with it, please leave a tip for the benefit of this charity. (See FAQ for more infos.)
This product can provide GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com.
Troubleshooting
Does geoip_detect2_get_info_from_current_ip()
return the same country, regardless of where you are visiting the site from? Maybe your server has a reverse proxy configured. You can check this: Go to the options page and look for “reverse proxy”. Are there 2 IPs listed there? If so, which one corresponds to your public IP?
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