Show IP address
A simple plugin to show your visitor’s IP address on pages, posts, widgets, and the admin dashboard. Lightweight and easy to use.
5(5 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 7 months agoAs of April 2026, Show IP address is a WordPress show ip plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 22K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Downloads are up 7% this week.
5/55 reviews
1.0K+active installs
22K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
This plugin displays your visitor’s IP address using a shortcode. It’s lightweight, fast, and ideal for developers, diagnostics, and secured areas.
Great for:
- Your home page
- Posts
- Pages
Features
- Shortcode to display the visitor’s IP address:
[show_ip] [show_ip]– Display visitor IP address[show_ip_hostname]– Display IP hostname[show_ip_useragent]– Display browser user agent[show_ip_referrer]– Display referrer URL- Works on pages, posts, and widgets
- Lightweight and fast – no bloat or external requests
- Dashboard widget for quick admin view
- Compatible with all modern WordPress versions
- Zero external API calls – works on all hosting environments
Perfect for technical websites, diagnostics pages, or simply showing your visitor what their current IP address is as well…
Screenshots
Ratings & Reviews
55 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works perfect
by M.F. Jong·7 years ago
Even though this plugin is not updated for several years it works just perfect. We use it on our support pages so clients can see their own IP address when we need it.
Show IP Address worked perfectly out of the box
by zixus·9 years ago
The plugin worked as expected without any issues giving accurate information about the site visitors IP address, should be a great solution for those that need it.
Developer fixed "invalid header" problem
by trishahdee·9 years ago·5 replies
UPDATE: Developer fixed problem so I am changing my 1-star review to 5-stars as it is working great now. Thank you!
—- Original Review —-
Can not activate the plugin. When I try I get the following message:
The plugin does not have a valid header.
A work in progress
by Keith Griffiths·10 years ago
I thought I would create a simple plugin,that does what its meant to do, it’s simple and it works.
Working on a few issues to do with ‘shell_exec()’ but apart from that it works.
Poor Support – Dashboard Errors UPDATED!
by luckyfox·10 years ago·2 replies
As promised, the plugin has been revised/updated and returned to it’s roots of being a plugin designed to show one’s IP and doing it correctly and effectively. Glad to see we were able to get things sorted! Thank you so much for listening and working with feedback, author!
Updated to 5 stars for doing what it’s meant to do, simple and well!
ORIGINAL REVIEW ( 1 Star )
Created support topic over 2 months ago.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabled-shell_exec
Even went so far as to attempt to contact him via his personal site to ensure he was made aware of this problem and support topic via http://www.keith-griffiths.com/contact-me
No reply at all.
Creator boasts “Any suggested updates I’ll consider in each build.” but can’t be bothered to provide support for an issue that has arisen specifically from this plugin.
1 star, because no lower rating is available, due to errors and nonexistent support.
Download Trends
Today: 8Yesterday: 8This week: 49Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.8
62.1%
v1.6
22.2%
v1.5
9.2%
Other
6.5%
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0
- Initial public release.
Contributors
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