Title: Using zones
Last modified: January 3, 2020

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# Using zones

 *  [ragmannl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ragmannl/)
 * (@ragmannl)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-zones/)
 * I’m confused how to use the geofence zones.
 * I made some test zones and now I want to restrict access to pages and/or posts
   if not in the zone.
 * How do I get that working? I tried putting lat long in the location tab, but 
   it does not seem to do anything.
 * I’d like to get to a point where I can use nfc or qr to allow people to access
   content on a specific real location and restricting anyone else who is not. Creating
   a digital exposition in a real life location, where people must visit.
 * Hope you got a quick start or some pointer how to do this.
 * Best wishes for 2020
    Cheers Ewoud

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 *  Plugin Author [David Shanske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dshanske/)
 * (@dshanske)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-zones/#post-12289169)
 * The plugin adds location display to a post, to represent where the post was written.
   For example, this is nice on photo blogs where maps of where photos were taken
   adds to context. The location lookup can come from an external server or from
   the browser’s built in support for location lookup.
 * The Zones feature was designed to restrict the display of the location on a post.
   There are three location visibility options…Public, Private, and Protected. Private
   shows no location unless logged in. Protected shows a textual description of 
   a location but omits the actual location. If a post is in a zone, it will replace
   the actual location looked up with the name of the zone. For example, if I’m 
   at home, and don’t want to share where that is, it will hide it with the notation‘
   Home’.
 * The first feature you seem to be asking for post status to private based on location.
   This is not currently a feature, although I made a note of the idea for future.
 * The second is unlocking content based on location. Now, at the moment, other 
   than display, there are no frontend features for visitors to the site. Realistically
   speaking, you could change the display of the page based on provided location
   of a visitor…not sure that specifically fits with what this plugin does. If I
   decide to add features for visitors as opposed to authors of posts, I will certainly
   consider it. I did consider allowing commenters to add location.
 *  Thread Starter [ragmannl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ragmannl/)
 * (@ragmannl)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-zones/#post-12290470)
 * Thank you for your quick reply david. It seems i was mistaken about what your
   plugin does :).
    If you ever add a user location check to compare to zones in
   the plugin i would be very happy. But indeed that would become a different plugin.

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