Globe Visitors Counter

Globe Visitors Counter (Lite) adds a beautiful, fast, iframe-isolated 3D visitor globe to any WordPress site.
It instantly shows your audience geography — fully locally, privately and without any third-party tracking.

✦ Key Features

• Interactive 3D Land-Cover globe included out of the box
• Real-time visitor logging with a tiny local JSON file
• Historical dots displayed automatically
• Zero configuration, works with all themes & editors
• Shortcode-based, easy placement on any page
• No cookies, no remote APIs, GDPR-friendly
• Ultra-fast loading thanks to iframe sandboxing

✦ How It Works

When a page with the shortcode is opened, the plugin loads a self-contained viewer bundle from:

/wp-content/uploads/visitors-lite-landcover/

The viewer writes a minimal visit entry (timestamp + coordinates + city + country) to:

visitors.json

Everything is handled locally on your server.
No tracking pixels, no external analytics, no cookies.

✦ Why Use It

• Great for landing pages and stores
• Shows your global audience in a visual, engaging way
• Safe for cached pages and CDNs
• Works even on heavily optimized / minified setups

✦ Tester Program (optional)

We are tuning defaults and performance for upcoming builds.
If you want to enable advanced features during testing at no cost (heatmap modes, line-effects, more skins), join via Support:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-testers-free-advanced-features-for-feedback/

Usage

Shortcode:

[visitors_globe_lite title=”VISITORS” width=”100%” height=”600″]

Attributes:
– title — optional caption above the globe
– width — iframe width (100% or fixed px)
– height — iframe height in px

Place the shortcode anywhere — Classic or Block editor.

1. Go to Plugins → Add New, search for Globe Visitors Counter, then Install → Activate
   — or upload the ZIP manually.

2. Insert the shortcode into any page or post:

   [visitors_globe_lite title=”VISITORS” width=”100%” height=”600″]

3. Open the page — the 3D globe appears inside an iframe.

4. Visits are logged locally in:

   /wp-content/uploads/visitors-lite-landcover/visitors.json

1. 

   Land-Cover Globe with HUD and city markers.

2. 

1.5.1

• New Land-Cover globe viewer (same engine as commercial build)
• Added full PHP visitor logger (save_visitor.php)
• Updated seed files (index.html, app.js, visitor.js)
• Atomic JSON writer with rotation for safe logging
• Cleaned up old files and simplified defaults
• Updated documentation and shortcode examples

1.2.1

• Expanded world cities dataset to 7,342 places (ASCII-only, deduplicated)
• Kept filename (cities_1000.json) for compatibility

1.1.9

• Added community Tester Program
• Improved accessibility defaults
• Better cache-safe behavior

1.1.8

• Rename to Globe Visitors Counter
• Lower “Requires at least” to 5.4
• Minor text improvements