Country Ways Content Show

This is actually quite easy to do: You will need to install a geolacation plugin that provides methods/functions to identify visitor country. N.B. A plugin only providing shortcodes will not work.

The only complicating factor is countries can be named in a variety of ways so 2 character ISO Country Codes have to be used for reliable visitor identifcation.

You could rename all your categories by adding an ISO code sufffix e.g. “Canada (CA)”; but association with visitors will be complicated and involve more code. So the example below assumes you will add either a 2nd category or a tag with the relevant uppercase ISO code e.g. “CA” to each post.

(tested and works for me)

1. Add a 2nd category (or tag) to each of your posts named as per 2 char ISO country code (ensure uppercase).

2. Install and activate the Category Country Aware plugin (as the author I’m familiar with it and so its the one I used it in the code below).

3. use an editor to create this plugin file (if using tags remove the 2 category lines, and uncomment the tag line as explained in comments)

   <?php
   /*
   Plugin Name: Category for Visitor
   Description: only show posts for visitor's country on home page
   */
   function my_visitors_category( $query ) {
     if (! class_exists('CCAgeoip')) return;
     $cat_id = get_cat_ID( CCAgeoip::get_visitor_country_code() ); // remove this line if using tag instead of 2nd cat
     if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
            $query->set( 'cat', $cat_id); // remove this line if using tags
            // $query->set( 'tag', CCAgeoip::get_visitor_country_code() );  // uncomment this line if using tags for country ISO
     }
   }
   add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_visitors_category' );
   ?>
   

4. save as “visitor-category.php”; then Zip the file

5. Upload the zipped file via WP Dashboard->plugins->ad new->upload and activate