Geo Controller

Geo Controller is a transformative WordPress plugin that enables comprehensive management and manipulation of geographic data on your website. This tool was previously known as CF Geo Plugin.

Essentially, it helps to personalize and enhance your website’s usability based on the geographical location of the users. By doing so, it adds an element of personalization to your website that can significantly increase user engagement and site interaction.

In addition to geographic-based features, Geo Controller has now integrated an advanced TOR network detection system. This addition allows website owners to identify visitors accessing the site through the TOR network, offering them the option to block, hide, or display specific content based on this criteria, thus ensuring a more secure and tailored browsing experience.

The central function of Geo Controller is its ability to automatically determine the geographical location of your website visitors. Using this information, the plugin allows for the creation of custom, location-based greetings like “Welcome to our website, [visitor’s city]!”. This feature not only creates a welcoming environment but also establishes an immediate connection with the user.

Geo Controller’s features extend beyond just recognizing and displaying user location data. It enables easy integration of geo tags, Google Maps, and various forms of content to your website’s posts, pages, widgets, and custom templates. You can implement these changes with minimal coding knowledge, thanks to the available options, shortcodes, and even PHP code.

To make it even more practical, Geo Controller is fully compatible with well-known WordPress plugins such as WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, Yoast SEO, and WP Super Cache. This ensures a seamless user experience and full utilization of all these beneficial tools.

Other useful features include the ability to set a default location for your site, to optimize your SEO and user redirection capabilities. Geo Controller also equips you with spam protection and allows you to manage your WooCommerce store more effectively.

On the technical side, Geo Controller utilizes a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to distribute data. This ensures optimal website loading speed, leading to improved user experience. In addition, by leveraging API use, it enables less local data storage, providing more room for other crucial website data.

Geo Controller’s capabilities also stretch to legal compliance. It can filter certain types of content like legal notices, forms, or specific text from being displayed to users from regions where such content may not be relevant or lawful. This protects your website from any potential legal conflicts and ensures a smooth, uninterrupted user experience.

FREE AND PAID SERVICES

Geo Controller for WordPress is completely free! But, just like a superhero needs their trusty sidekick, Geo Controller also works with paid services that give you unlimited information about your website’s visitors. However, for the free users, the API services are limited to 1000 lookups per day. But don’t worry, if you want to take your location detection game to the next level, you can upgrade to UNLIMITED lookups by visiting our official website.

And the best part? We often have monthly promotions and discounts, so don’t forget to check out our pricing page on the official website for more information.

Geo Controller works as a service, so sit back, relax, and let the plugin do all the hard work for you.

BENEFITS

SERVER & WORDPRESS

• There is no need to buy expensive and heavy databases
• No effect on the site performances
• Full support for the WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, Yoast SEO, WP Super Cache and other most popular plugins
• TOR network detection system

SEO INTEGRATIONS

• Redirects visitors to a blog page based on their geo informations by SEO rules
• Redirects visitors to a predefined URL based on their geo informations by SEO rules
• Allows you to configure multiple redirection rules as needed for the pages and entire website
• Supports 301, 302, 303 & 304 HTTP redirection
• Supports IPv4 and IPv6
• Geo Tag Generator attach Geo Tags in the head of your website for the specific pages
• Cache support

GEOMARKETING

• Create marketing campaigns targeted only at certain locations.
• Create landing pages targeted only at certain locations.
• Create banners, videos and any other content targeted only at certain locations.

E-COMMERCE | WooCommerce

• Geolocate for your customer location with Geo Controller API
• Payments Control show or hide payment methods by country to prevent unwanted transactions
• Geo Location logging of your customers during orders
• Country Payment Control for your WooCommerce installation
• Display local currency, local symbol or converter
• Use currency converter to calculate price in local currency
• Use VAT to check is current country under tax rate
• Use EU to check is country from the European Union

ANTI SPAM PROTECTION

• Spam protection from the danger visitors or spammers
• Blocking access on the website from the specific user defined locations
• Blocking IP Addresses from accessing on the website

LOCALIZATION

• Redirect incoming traffic to content in the local language or currency.
• Businesses with local branches can direct customers to a relevant physical location or local microsite.

LEGAL REQUIREMENTS

• Filter required legal notices, text, forms, etc. from countries for whom those content may not be relevant.

Compatibility

This plugin is compatible with any WordPress installation and many available plugins. We also do special compatible functions with:

• GPS for Geo Controller (Enable GPS lookup for the Geo Controller and collect geodata from the mobile visitors.)
• WooCommerce (geolocate, payment controls & currency converter)
• Gravity Forms (new fields for adding country, region, city)
• Wooplatnica (currency converter)
• Monarch (Geo Banner support)
• Cloudflare (Cache and deep IP recognations)
• Contact Form 7 (JavaScript objects and shortcode support)
• Nord VPN proxy service (PROXY settings)
• Yoast SEO
• All in one SEO pack
• WordPress SEO plugin
• SEO framework
• WP Fastest Cache

YOU NEED TO KNOW that Geo Controller is designed for compatibility with most plugins, but the vast array of WordPress plugins and installations means that occasional conflicts might occur. Although rare, it’s not possible to guarantee 100% compatibility in every case. If you encounter any problems, reach out to the support teams for assistance. Often, keeping your plugins and WordPress installation up to date is the simplest way to resolve any issues.

All Geo Controller for WordPress 8.x.x Features

• Geo Plugin – Allows you to attach geographical information inside your content via Shortcodes, PHP and JavaScript objects
• Geo Banner – Allows you to place dynamic content, images, videos and pages using shortcodes for specific audience target by geolocation
• Google Map – Allows you to attach Google Map inside content
• Geo Tag – Allows you to generate precise Geo Tags for your pages and custom posts
• Anti Spam Protection – Allows you to block access on blog from spam IP addresses and specific geo locations
• Cloudflare Geolocation Support – Cloudflare support for visitor geolocation
• DNS Lookup – Allows you to attach visitor DNS informations
• SSL Support – Keep you safe
• Cache Support – Allow other cache plugins to be integrated and supported
• PROXY Settings – Allows you to use PROXY for the lookup
• SEO Redirection – Allows you to redirect any page, post or article
• Country Flag Support – Allows you to attach visitor or custom country flags inside content
• Include Content by Geolocation – Allows you to include content by geolocation
• Exclude Content by Geolocation – Allows you to exclude content by geolocation
• Plugin Autoupdate – Allows you to keep your plugin up to date automatically
• REST API – Allows you to become geo information provider

Basics usage and example

[cfgeo_flag]
[cfgeo]
[cfgeo_city]
[cfgeo return="region"]
We just found shoes in [cfgeo_city] that you can buy for 50% discount.
[cfgeo ip="127.0.0.1" return="area_code"]
[cfgeo exclude="Toronto"] This text is seeing by everyone except Toronto people [/cfgeo]
[cfgeo include="New York"] This text seeing only people from New York [/cfgeo]
[in_eu]You are from the European Union[/in_eu]
[not_in_eu]You are NOT from the European Union[/not_in_eu]
[is_vat]You are under VAT[/is_vat]
[is_not_vat]You are NOT under VAT[/is_not_vat]

Usage & Example

To best understand how shortcodes work, it’s best to read the documentation.

But here are some simple examples:

The Geo Controller allows you to add location-based functionality to your website. It is a simple plugin to use, after installation and activation, you just need to insert the shortcode [cfgeo] in your post or page. This shortcode returns and displays the IP address of the visitor.

You can also display different location-based information by using the return attribute in the shortcode. For example, to display the region of the visitor, you can use the shortcode [cfgeo return="region"]. By changing the return attribute, you can display any information from the list provided by the plugin. Each user visiting the site will see information related to their area.

Additionally, you can also track custom IP addresses and return information from that IP by adding an optional attribute called ip. For example, [cfgeo ip="127.0.0.1" return="area_code"] will return the area code from that IP address.

If the plugin is unable to locate the information, you can add a default value to the shortcode by using the default attribute. For example, [cfgeo return="country_code" default="US"] will return “US” if the plugin is unable to locate the country code.

You can exclude or include content on your page based on the user’s location by using the exclude or include attribute. For example,

[cfgeo exclude="Toronto, Québec"] This text is seeing by everyone except people from Toronto and Québec [/cfgeo]

will hide the content “This text is seeing by everyone except people from Toronto and Québec” from the visitors that are located in Toronto or Québec.

Similarly, if you want to display some content only to specific location you can use include attribute like this:

[cfgeo include="New York, Miami, Germany"] This text seeing only people from New York, Miami and Germany [/cfgeo]

this shortcode will only display the text “This text seeing only people from New York, Miami and Germany” to the visitors that are located in New York, Miami and Germany.

You can also use the include and exclude attributes with country codes, region codes, or city codes. For example, you can use [cfgeo include="US, GB, DE"] to only display the content to visitors located in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. Or you can use [cfgeo exclude="CA, ON, QUE"] to hide the content from visitors located in the provinces of California, Ontario, and Québec in Canada.

By using these attributes you can control the content visibility based on user location and personalize the user experience.

Please note that you need to use accurate location name to include or exclude content and case sensitive location name.

VAT CONTROL: If you need to show value-added tax (VAT) information on your website, there are 2 shortcodes that can help you with it.

[is_vat]You are under VAT[/is_vat]
[is_not_vat]You are NOT under VAT[/is_not_vat]

Both shortcodes have a default option that you can use as an alternative.

[is_vat default="You are NOT under VAT"]You are under VAT[/is_vat]
[is_not_vat default="You are under VAT"]You are NOT under VAT[/is_not_vat]

Generally, these two shortcodes show or hide everything inside it, depending on your needs.

EU CONTROL: If you need to display some content related to European Union (EU) countries, you can do it on the two easy way:

[in_eu]You are from the European Union[/in_eu]
[not_in_eu]You are NOT from the European Union[/not_in_eu]

Like many of our shortcodes, there is default options what you can use as an alternative:

[in_eu default="You are NOT from the European Union"]You are from the European Union[/in_eu]
[not_in_eu defauilt="You are from the European Union"]You are NOT from the European Union[/not_in_eu]

These two shortcodes also show or hide everything inside it, depending on your needs.

GOOGLE MAP: If you want to place a simple Google Map in your post or page, you just need to place a shortcode [cfgeo_map] and your visitor will see their own location on Google Map by default.

Like example, you can display own company street address inside Google Map like this: [cfgeo_map longitude="-74.0059" latitude="40.7128" zoom="15"] and pointer will show your street and place where you work.

Google Map also allow you to use HTML inside map and display info bar:

[cfgeo_map longitude="-74.0059" latitude="40.7128" zoom="15" title="My Company Name"] 
   <h3>My Company Name<h3> 
   <p>No Name Street 35, New York, USA</p> 
   <p>We have what you need</p> 
[/cfgeo_map]

With this plugin you can easily set up your Google Map.

GEO BANNER: With this plugin you also have the ability to make dynamic content (text, images, banners, videos…) and target your messages to people from certain regions, track IP address, setup WordPress to work on user’s timezone, etc. The possibilities are huge, you can increase conversions, use this plugin like support for your custom template, build your own plugin and use Geo Controller like additional options, etc.

You just need to create a new banner, place your content, select rules (country, region, city) save your banner, after that in your page pickup banner shortcode and place inside content.

COUNTRY FLAG You can display country flags in text or like images.

If you like to display country flag in your text like icon, you can do that simple like:

[cfgeo_flag] - and you will see a flag in your text.

If you like to display country flag in your content like image, you can do that also simple using img or image attributes like:

[cfgeo_flag img] - and you will see image flag in your content

You also can give custom sizes of flags in %, px, in, pt or em using size attribute like this:

[cfgeo_flag size="32px"] - and you will see your flag in that size. You can use this size in image and normal text mode also.

You also can display custom flag using country attribute by placing country code simple like:

[cfgeo_flag country="ca"] - and you will see a flag in your text or like image.

We allow you also full control of this flags and you can place css, class or id attributes to be able use this in any kind of work like this:

[cfgeo_flag size="50" css="padding:10px;" class="your-custom-class custom-class custom" id="top-flag"]

Flags also support include & exclude attributes where you can controls your flag view:

[cfgeo_flag exclude="ca,us"] - and you will hide flag from the USA and Canada, for other is visible

or

[cfgeo_flag include="ca,us"] - and you will show flag only inside USA and Canada, for others is hidden

Info & Contact

Please visit our website www.cfgeoplugin.com and feel free to contact us. …

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