IP-Sonar

Visitors by IP-Sonar is a comprehensive visitor tracking and analytics plugin that provides detailed insights about your website visitors. Using the powerful IP-Sonar API, this plugin offers accurate geolocation data, traffic source analysis, and visitor analytics to help you better understand your audience and how they find your website.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Real-time Visitor Tracking – Monitor website visitors as they browse your site</li>
<li>Traffic Source Analysis – Track how visitors find your website (search engines, social media, direct, referrals)</li>
<li>Search Engine Tracking – Capture search terms from Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and more</li>
<li>Social Media Detection – Identify visitors from Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and other platforms</li>
<li>Referral Tracking – Monitor which external websites send you traffic</li>
<li>Detailed Geolocation Data – Country, region, city, postal code, and coordinates</li>
<li>Device & Browser Detection – Identify visitor devices and operating systems</li>
<li>Privacy Compliant – Automatic data cleanup after 7 days</li>
<li>User-Friendly Dashboard – Clean, intuitive admin interface with visual source statistics</li>
<li>Comprehensive Statistics – Visitor counts and traffic source breakdowns</li>
<li>IP-Sonar API Integration – High-quality geolocation data with optional API key</li>
</ul>
Traffic Source Tracking: 
* Direct Traffic – Visitors who type your URL directly or use bookmarks 
* Search Engines – Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Baidu with search terms 
* Social Media – Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, TikTok 
* Referral Traffic – External websites linking to your content 
* Internal Navigation – Visitors moving between pages on your site
Geolocation Information Includes: 
* Country, region/state, and city 
* Latitude and longitude coordinates 
* Timezone information 
* Postal codes 
* EU membership status 
* Accuracy radius
Privacy & Data Management: 
* Visitor data is automatically removed after 7 days 
* IP addresses are processed securely via IP-Sonar API 
* Configurable tracking settings
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
This plugin collects visitor IP addresses, user agent strings, page URLs, visit timestamps, and referrer information (traffic sources) to provide geolocation and traffic analytics. IP addresses are processed by the external IP-Sonar API service. Search terms from search engine referrers may also be captured and stored. Visitor data is stored for 7 days before automatic removal. No personal information is collected beyond what is necessary for the plugin’s functionality.
<h3>Third Party Services</h3>
This plugin uses the IP-Sonar API service to provide geolocation data: 
* Service: IP-Sonar API (https://ip-sonar.com) 
* Terms of Service: https://ip-sonar.com/terms-of-service/ 
* Privacy Policy: https://ip-sonar.com/privacy-policy/
IP addresses are sent to this external service for processing. Please review our terms and privacy policy.

Visitors by IP-Sonar

Track and analyze website visitors with detailed geolocation data and traffic sources powered by IP-Sonar API.

Scott Reilly

This plugin records the IP address of the original post author when a post first gets created.
The admin listing of posts is amended with a new “Author IP” column that shows the IP address of the author who first saved the post.
The plugin is unable to provide IP address information for posts that were created prior to the use of this plugin.
Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/post-author-ip/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-author-ip/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/post-author-ip/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a>
<h3>Hooks</h3>
The plugin is further customizable via four filters. Typically, code making use of filters should ideally be put into a mu-plugin or site-specific plugin (which is beyond the scope of this readme to explain).
c2c_show_post_author_ip_column (filter)
The ‘c2c_show_post_author_ip_column’ filter allows you to determine if the post author IP column should appear in the admin post listing table. Your hooking function can be sent 1 argument:
Argument :
<ul>
<li>$show_column (bool) Should the column be shown? Default true.</li>
</ul>
Example:
<pre><code>/**
 * Don't show the post author IP column except to admins.
 *
 * @param bool $show_column Should the column be shown? Default true.
 * @return bool
 */
function post_author_ip_column_admin_only( $show ) {
 if ( ! current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
 $show = false;
 }
 return $show;
}
add_filter( 'c2c_show_post_author_ip_column', 'post_author_ip_column_admin_only' );
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c2c_get_post_author_ip (filter)
The ‘c2c_get_post_author_ip’ filter allows you to customize the value stored as the post author IP address. Your hooking function can be sent 2 arguments:
Arguments :
<ul>
<li>$ip (string) The post author IP address.</li>
<li>$post_id (int) The post ID.</li>
</ul>
Example:
<pre><code>/**
 * Store all IP addresses from local subnet IP addresses as the same IP address.
 *
 * @param string $ip The post author IP address.
 * @param int $post_id The post ID.
 * @return string
 */
function customize_post_author_ip( $ip, $post_id ) {
 if ( 0 === strpos( $ip, '192.168.' ) ) {
 $ip = '192.168.1.1';
 }
 return $ip;
}
add_filter( 'c2c_get_post_author_ip', 'customize_post_author_ip', 10, 2 );
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c2c_get_current_user_ip (filter)
The ‘c2c_get_current_user_ip’ filter allows you to customize the current user’s IP address, as used by the plugin. Your hooking function can be sent 1 argument:
Argument :
<ul>
<li>$ip (string) The post author IP address.</li>
</ul>
Example:
<pre><code>/**
 * Overrides localhost IP address.
 *
 * @param string $ip The post author IP address.
 * @param int $post_id The post ID.
 * @return string
 */
function customize_post_author_ip( $ip, $post_id ) {
 if ( 0 === strpos( $ip, '192.168.' ) ) {
 $ip = '192.168.1.1';
 }
 return $ip;
}
add_filter( 'c2c_get_post_author_ip', 'customize_post_author_ip', 10, 2 );
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c2c_post_author_ip_allowed (filter)
The ‘c2c_post_author_ip_allowed’ filter allows you to determine on a per-post basis if the post author IP should be stored. Your hooking function can be sent 3 arguments:
Arguments :
<ul>
<li>$allowed (bool) Can post author IP be saved for post? Default true.</li>
<li>$post_id (int) The post ID.</li>
<li>$ip (string) The post author IP address.</li>
</ul>
Example:
<pre><code>/**
 * Don't bother storing localhost IP addresses.
 *
 * @param bool $allowed Can post author IP be saved for post? Default true.
 * @param int $post_id The post ID.
 * @param string $ip The post author IP address.
 * @return string
 */
function disable_localhost_post_author_ips( $allowed, $post_id, $ip ) {
 if ( $allowed && 0 === strpos( $ip, '192.168.' ) ) {
 $allowed = false;
 }
 return $allowed;
}
add_filter( 'c2c_post_author_ip_allowed', 'disable_localhost_post_author_ips', 10, 3 );
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Post Author IP

Records the IP address of the original post author when a post first gets created.

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