Stores lng/lat co-ordinates in a better optimized table. This plugin is meant for the use of other WordPress theme and plugin authors
As of April 2026, Geo Data Store is a WordPress geo plugin with 30 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Geo Mashup.
This plugin is meant to be used by other developers and to be used together with themes and other plugins. Many themes and plugins use WordPress meta data table to store longitude and latitude co-ordinates for posts. While this works fine the meta data table cannot be indexed very well. Let’s take for example you have made a custom post type called ‘properties’. You create 100,000 posts all attached with latitude and longitude co-ordinates. You want your users to search for those properties in a 50 mile radius for example. Because of the method of which WordPress stores the meta data the query is slow especially when dealing with large amounts of data.
This plugin has been made to retro fit your current WordPress install. You as the developer select, using filters, what…
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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