Geolocation IP Detection for WordPress
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Geolocation IP Detection is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Benjamin Pick. With a rating of 4.7★ from 59 reviews.
Geolocation IP Detection is a WordPress app, with a 4.7 average rating from 59 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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Geolocation IP Detection is a WordPress app. It holds a 4.7★ average from 59 reviews on WordPress.
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- +4.7★ average across 59 reviews
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How Geolocation IP Detection works
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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:
You can use one of these data sources (see comparison):
Free (default source): HostIP.info (IPv4 only)
Free with registration: Maxmind GeoIP2 Lite City, automatically updated weekly
Commercial: Maxmind GeoIP2 City or Maxmind GeoIP2 Country
Commercial Web-API: Maxmind GeoIP2 Precision (City, Country or Insights)
Hosting-Provider dependent: Cloudflare or Amazon AWS CloudFront (Country)
Free or Commercial Web-API: Ipstack
Commercial Web-API via AWS Marketplace: Fastah
Provides these 5 functions (see API Documentation):
geoip_detect2_get_info_from_ip($ip, $locales = array('en'), $options = array()): Lookup Geo-Information of the specified IP
geoip_detect2_get_info_from_current_ip($locales = array('en'), $options = array()): Lookup Geo-Information of the current website user
geoip_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 webserver