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Hi Mavic,

This can be done several ways but most all require a bit of custom coding.

Because so much of this is dependent on your setup, the high level explanation looks like this…

Send users through a geolocation gateway or set a geolocation on/off flag.

FIrst time page load: User requests page, content is geolocated and returned, cookie value is set with their location or TRUE/FALSE that they have been geolocated.

Subsequent page load: User requests same page or other page with other geo parameter, server checks for cookie, renders or does not render geo content.

Other option: Provide users an on/off button that changes cookie value to use or not use geolocation stored in cookie.

Protip: You can access geoposty data points (geozip, geostate, geocountry, etc.) though the do_shortcode function.

Hope this helps.

Luke

Hi Zavoq,

The best way to test IP geo is with actual users. Proxies, etc. will provide irregular results. Not sure if this how you were testing this…

If you’d like more information on how the data for geoposty is collected and served, please check out the data aggregator – Neustar. You can see them https://www.neustar.biz/enterprise/ip-intelligence. That site explains where the data comes from and how any inconsistency may arise.

Luke

Hi,

Sincerest apologies for the delay in responding. We were a bit late to the party that www.remarpro.com was collecting questions here.

The GeoPosty API is top level domain specific. So if you are running multi-site and the requesting domain is a different .com .org or what have you, GeoPosty will block the request because it is from a domain not authorized. That may or may not the cause of the disappearing widgets.

Luke

Hi,

Yes, this plugin works in the UK.

The data that powers the plugin is the IP geo library put out by Neustar. This library is worldwide and has a zipcode resolution on IP addresses.

You can get more information on IP intelligence, commercial plans etc. at https://www.neustar.biz/enterprise/ip-intelligence.

You can also get more information here https://developer.quova.com/ on developing with the data directly.

Luke

If that doesn’t work, do some digging on “flush rewrite rules” – I’ve run into this problem on a few sites and have found a variety of different ways to fix it.

Hi Joogle,

I just followed up on this and see that you have a WP site live at your domain. When you get a chance, please share how you got to the finish line on this. Was it by setting your nameservers to ns01.000webhost.com, ns02.000webhost.com ?

Joogle,

I’ve made this transfer a few times and I’m not sure if you are running into the same bit or not. Disregard this if it doesn’t hit home for you.

Editing your Name Servers and your DNS are done in different places with WordPress.com. This can be confusing if this is the first domain you’ve ever purchased or if you are new to using WordPress.com systems.

You need to edit your Name Servers to get your domain pointed outside of WordPress.com. If you edit DNS (Upgrades->Domains->Edit DNS) you are only controlling what happens once the domain is inside the WordPress.com name server environment. This isn’t the right behavior if you are moving hosts.

To point your domain to your new host, you have to edit your Name Servers, available by going to Upgrades->Domains->Manage Your Domains
You have to go through the process of setting up a pin, etc. but that will give you the ability to use an interface similar to GoDaddy’s domain manager, to point your Name Servers to your new host.

Hope this helps.