{"id":1040,"date":"2015-03-17T20:45:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2015-11-17T20:30:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T20:30:29","slug":"free-ip-geo-location-on-wpengine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/blog\/free-ip-geo-location-on-wpengine\/","title":{"rendered":"Free IP Geo Location on WPEngine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WPEngine recently started offering the ability to geolocate IP&#8217;s if you&#8217;re on the business plan or above. But for many of you still on the personal plan this is no help. If you have a low traffic site (less than 1000 visitors a day) then this could be a good solution for you. Put this at the top of your functions.php file:<\/p>\n<pre class='prettyprint lang-php'>\nif(!isset($_COOKIE['loc'])) {\n    $daysToExpiry = 30; \/\/ The amount of days the cookie is good for\n    $response = file_get_contents('http:\/\/ipinfo.io\/'.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);\n    $response = json_decode($response);\n    setcookie('loc', $response->country, time()+($daysToExpiry*24*60*60), '\/');\n}\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now you have access to <code>$_COOKIE['loc']<\/code> which will contain the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2\">2 character country code<\/a> of your visitor.<\/p>\n<p>ipinfo.io also provides some other data in the response that you could use as well. Here&#8217;s a typical resonse:<\/p>\n<pre class='prettyprint lang-bsh'>\n$curl ipinfo.io\/8.8.8.8\n{\n  \"ip\": \"8.8.8.8\",\n  \"hostname\": \"google-public-dns-a.google.com\",\n  \"city\": \"Mountain View\",\n  \"region\": \"California\",\n  \"country\": \"US\",\n  \"loc\": \"37.3860,-122.0838\",\n  \"org\": \"AS15169 Google Inc.\",\n  \"postal\": \"94035\"\n}\n<\/pre>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shareasale.com\/r.cfm?b=785213&amp;u=1157378&amp;m=41388&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static.shareasale.com\/image\/41388\/SPEEDUP-336x280-v2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"20% Off WP Engine\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WPEngine recently started offering the ability to geolocate IP&#8217;s if you&#8217;re on the business plan or above. But for many of you still on the personal plan this is no help. If you have a low traffic site (less than 1000 visitors a day) then this could be a good solution for you. Put this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,16],"tags":[127,128,80,106,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}