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IPGP Geolocation

Description

Using IPGP Geolocation, you can redirect users in specific countries to another URL. You can add different redirect rules that applies to different countries and different URLs.

After installation, go to IPGP Geolocation menu in your wordpress administration panel. There you can select which countries you want to apply the redirection for, and set a redirection URL. Add the rule and it is done.

To get the user location, the data is send to IPGP Geolocation API, located at: http://www.ipgp.net/geo/country.php . The API is free for fair usage. There is no private data sent to any external server. The data exchanged between the plugin and the API are: your visitor IP Address without other details about the visitor, and API key to be identified on the server and your website URL. The data sent back by the API contains the visitor country code, country name.

When the plugin is activated, an API key is requested from the API website. The data sent to the API servers contains the current time, and a public number to make sure that the API key is requested by the plugin. The data sent back contains the API key, a secret key for authentication and the number of queries allowed for fair usage. Fair usage consist in 20,000 queries per month. This number is subject to change based on the load on our servers.

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

  1. Upload the plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or download it directly from your administration panel.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Go to IPGP Geolocation menu in your wordpress administration panel to add rewrite rules
  4. Select the countries from the drop-down list and click add. You can do this for multiple countries.
  5. Add the URL where you want visitors from that country to be redirected and click to add rule.
  6. Now, visitors coming from that country will be redirected to your specified URL

FAQ

How the plugin works ?

The plugin use the visitor IP Address to get Geolocation data from an external server.

Reviews

March 27, 2019 1 reply
This plugin doesn’t work and there’s no reply from support even after more than one month. I set it to redirect visitors from a specific country to a specific link but nothing happens and it doesn’t redirect.
May 19, 2018 1 reply
Giving it 4 stars because it worked in my simple test — using France geo in Tor browser, it redirected. The parameters in my link don’t translate properly, however. I tried encoded and standard links. Tor browser forwards, but everything from ?=parameter& converts to #38;. I’m not posting that information as a tech request. The plugin hasn’t been updated in a year, so I wouldn’t expect support. I’m posting that information for those who may want to try the plugin, but also need to use link parameters.
January 31, 2018 1 reply
Saludos. Este desconocido plugin es excelente, estoy desarrollando un sitio para una persona que recibe trafico internacional y nacional, por la naturaleza del contenido se tiene que dividir asi que este plugin hace ese redireccionamiento perfectamente sin más. Este plug deberia tener una opcion IF Then Else ejemplo: IF Mexico Then url://mexico else url://internacional tambien seria algo interesante la capacidad de que puedan seleccionarse multiples paises al mismo tiempo, aunque seria muy laborioso la segmentacion por continentes para poder seleccionar paises especificos. creo que la implementacion continental seria aun mejor. Es un excelente plugin sobre todos los que hay en wordpress.
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Contributors & Developers

“IPGP Geolocation” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.0.7

  • Tested and updated

1.0.6.4

  • Fixed warning on redirection rules display

1.0.6.2

  • Tested and updated to work with WordPress 5.7.2

1.0.6.2

  • Tested and updated to work with WordPress 5.4.2

1.0.6.1

  • Tested and updated to work with WordPress 5.3.2

1.0.6

  • Fixed apikey generation issues and cleared a notice appearing

1.0.5

  • Fixed few errors causing notices

1.0.4

  • Fixed issue with url encoding and cleared some notices

1.0.3

  • Fixed textdomain function bug

1.0.2

  • Sorted country list

1.0.1

  • If only one country is set, there is no need to click “add” button
  • If no redirection rules are set, then the plugin does nothing on page load

1.0

  • This is the first version of the plugin