Geolocation IP Detection for WordPress Plugin Directory

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

geoip_detect2_get_client_ip(): Get client IP (even if it is behind a reverse proxy)

For the property names, see the results of a specific IP in the wordpress backend (under Tools > Geolocation IP 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 and geoip-continent-EU.

If you are using a page cache, it is recommended to use the AJAX mode (see AJAX)

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]

Geolocation information for the email text: [geoip_detect2_user_info]

If you are using WP Forms, you can use this shortcode:

Geolocation information for the email text: [geoip_detect2_user_info]

Together with SVG Flags you can show the flag of the detected country: [geoip_detect2_current_flag] (see documentation)

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 pre-fill the shipping country

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 …

If you need to get the user’s timezone, it is more accurate to use JS solutions.

System Requirements: You will need at least PHP 7.2.5 . Also, if you use the plugin WooCommerce, you’ll need at least WooCommerce 3.9.0 .

GDPR: See Is this plugin GDPR-compliant?

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.)

Here are other ways to contribute to the development of this plugin.

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?

Or maybe you are using a site cache plugin. Then enable the option Disable caching a page that contains a shortcode or API call to geo-dependent functions.

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