Some obvious countries do not work?

  • jennifer.frost

    (@jenniferfrost)


    12 years ago

    Hi,

    I’ve added a rule to show some content to visitors from Spain.

    Example IP: 95.141.20.197

    iplocation.net shows all services are detecting it correctly as Madrid, Spain

    But, worpit doesn’t show me the content?

    is there something fundamentally wrong with my setup or are there lots of exceptions like this when the plugin(ip2nation db, clouflare) doesn’t catch it?

    I’ve installed both: the ip2nation db, but am also using the country code headers from Cloudflare!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-by-country/

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  • Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    12 years ago

    When I do IP Whois lookup on: 95.141.20.197 I get GB/UK from http://cqcounter.com/whois/

    And this shows both madrid and the UK:
    http://www.iplocation.net/index.php

    This highlights that IP Geolocation is not an exact science and you can’t always be sure IPs resolve to locations you expect.

    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    12 years ago

    You should try:

    [CBC_COUNTRY /]

    and see what country is being detected.

    Thread Starter jennifer.frost

    (@jenniferfrost)

    12 years ago

    Hi Paul!

    Thanks for the reply. Got it.

    Is there a fallback value parameter for this:

    [CBC_COUNTRY /]

    if there’s no country being detected?

    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    12 years ago

    Nope, there’s no fallback – this simply outputs what it finds. If it cannot match the IP, I’m not actually sure what it would output, to be honest.

    Are you having that happen?

    Thread Starter jennifer.frost

    (@jenniferfrost)

    12 years ago

    Problem is, if I have a shopping cart and would like to greet visitors by country, a missing country name would be weird, but if i could use a fallback like “your country” it would make sense gain…

    Example:

    We offer free shipping to [CBC_COUNTRY /]

    if not country detected it would just be blank after to

    If i could use a fallback like:

    [CBC_COUNTRY default=”your country” /]

    it would make sense again 🙂

    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    12 years ago

    These shortcodes are designed (as yet) to be used on the frontend, except for debugging purposes to ensure countries etc are being detected as you expect. I’ll have a think about new shortcodes to use etc. for what you’re looking for.

    xbaha

    (@xbaha)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    i have the same problem
    thie is the output:
    I AM IN USA NOW
    Country =
    and
    IP = 121.35.226.12

    no country was detected.
    but in who is IP it tells you it’s china.

    I also have another issue, not sure if it’s a problem or bug or it’s just like this,
    the top bar where it says:
    The IP-2-Nations data needs to be updated/installed before you can use the Content By Country plugin.
    when i click to install, it keeps waiting for about a minute then it goes to my WP-Dash board. when i go back the the plugin setting, the message is still there!

    let me know what’s up.

    thanks

    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    It looks like the database isn’t being properly installed which is why you’re getting the message repeatedly and you’re not getting a country detected…

    xbaha

    (@xbaha)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    So is there anything I could do?

    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    You could take the SQL file that is shipped with the plugin and use something like PHP MyAdmin to import the sql directly to your WordPress database.

    xbaha

    (@xbaha)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    I was going you do a hot fix.

    Thanks.

    xbaha

    (@xbaha)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    I was going you do a hot fix.

    Thanks.

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