Geolocation IP Detection

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
  • 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)
  • 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]
  • Geolocation information for the email text: [geoip_detect2_user_info]

  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.

  Read the full description on the official page →