Geolocation Services attempts to retrieve a visitor's physical location, allowing for geographically relevant content to be delivered.
As of April 2026, Ochre W3C Geolocation Services is a WordPress w3c plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Type Attribute Warnings Removal.
Ochre’s Geolocation Services plugin for
WordPress utilizes the W3C Geolocation API to retrieve a visitor’s physical location, enabling a
WordPress website to present content relevant to a visitors current physical location such as local maps, event listings, branch and franchise locations, social media and other information that is geographically
interesting.
The plugin provides three “back end” action hooks for use by your or third party plugins or theme actions, and AJAX actions for “front end” customization such as executing javascript with the resolved Location information, redirecting to a new page, or refreshing the current page.
Global Configuration is available from the WordPress settings->Ochre Geolocation page:
| WordPress | 3.0.0+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
First release. There may be bugs and other problems! Try it out and let us know if you run into problems or have suggestions for improvement!
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