You may have to use a web service to get the user country using the user’s IP. There are a lot of them out there. I will tell you about one of them which is IP API . Here how to use it: $ip = $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’]; $return = wp_remote_get(“http://ip-api.com/json/”.$ip); if ( is_wp_error( $return ) ) … Read more
Since your blog runs on wordpress.com, your options are limited. In order to render the map, you need the data in some form that the map can process it. Either addresses or geocodes. In order to generate the map dynamically without manual interference, these data need to be saved with the post, and somehow retrieved. … Read more
If memory serves, Bad Behavior allows to configure a few aspects of geo-blocking. There might be a few wp.org plugins tagged as security that allow to implement geo-blocking too. That said, I don’t think it’s the right approach. The best is to hop over to askapache.com. There’s tons of security-related, htaccess-based stuff over there. Geo-blocking … Read more
There’s Geo Data Store by our own man, @Brady. It does a perfect job in one of my installations. It uses a custom table, that stores only ID, meta ID, lat and lng information, so your queries stay quick and brief, even when your database starts scaling. It got a 5 star rating from my … Read more
Can you use a plugin? I just released not long ago http://geomywp.com it basically does what you want. If you want to do it yourself so this is how I did it: The plugin adds address custom fields (as meta boxes) to your post type. When post is being saved the address being converted to … Read more