Geolocation IP Detection
Provides geographic information detected by an IP adress.
4.7(59 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 5 months agoAs of April 2026, Geolocation IP Detection is a WordPress GeoIP plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 59 reviews. It has been downloaded 561K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.2.5+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Downloads are up 12% this week. Top alternative: AntiSpam for Contact Form 7.
4.7/559 reviews
20K+active installs
561K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
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_…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
very great geo location plugin
by oblaum·2 years ago
just what is was looking for. love this plugin. thank you!
- This topic was modified 2 years ago by oblaum.
Home page doesn’t detect geoip_detect2_get_info_from_current_ip
by ivanyosifov·2 years ago·4 replies
The plugin is great but I noticed that on the home page the function geoip_detect2_get_info_from_current_ip doesn’t work.
What could be the reason for that?
Really great plugin!
by Cliff·2 years ago
This is the only geolocation plugin I’ve ever needed. Thanks for creating and maintaining this plugin!
Works as Advertised
by leslierad·2 years ago·1 reply
Really well written plugin that does exactly what it promises, includes well written documentation.
To those who wrote negative reviews about detection that is not the author’s fault, he links you to several providers that issue that data, you literally could not ask for more.
Works Brilliantly – Excellent Plugin!
by Paul Coughlin·2 years ago
Looked at a few geolocation plugins to show country specific content.. this plugin works where others don’t. Worth a Maxmind account though – super accurate, and super cheap.. almost free.
Thanks for creating this Benjamin
Download Trends
Today: 137Yesterday: 115This week: 649Period total: 44K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.2.5+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.6
56.5%
v5.5
16.5%
Other
14.9%
v5.4
6.7%
v5.3
5.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
5.6.1
- FIX [!]: Remove deprecated shortcode [geoip_detect] (Security – CVE-2025-57993). If you are still using it, use [geoip_detect2 …] instead, you might have to change the property name.
- FIX: Compatibility with WordPress 6.7 (Textdomain loading)
- Library updates
(5.6.0 was not released)
Contributors
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