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Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#45963 closed enhancement (wontfix)

Get Geo Location

Reported by: bhubbard's profile bhubbard Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: General Keywords:
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Description

It would be great if wordpress had a function to get geolocation of a user. Several different tools exist out there, but many are dependent on the server setup. For example with CloudFlare its as simple as getting the following;

$_SERVER['HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY']

Having a general method in WordPress that plugins/hosting providers can modify as needed could make getting geolocation simpler.

Change History (1)

#1 @pento
6 years ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution set to wontfix
  • Status changed from new to closed

Thank you for the feature request, @bhubbard.

Maintaining a geolocation database is not something that's viable for WordPress Core, it's far better left to expert services.

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