Custom Geo Location Detection Integration
AkuraiGeo by default requires your website traffic to be routed through Cloudflare. This is because it uses information from a request header provided by Cloudflare. However, not all websites are behind Cloudflare today, and for those websites, the plugin enables providing a custom solution.
Your Options
You can either provide a custom HTTP header or a completely custom geo-location detection algorithm. Check out below the option that suits you best.
Please note that in both cases the returned value should be a ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country code.
Custom Header
If your server provides an HTTP header named differently, you can instruct Akurai Geo plugin to use that header instead. To do that, simply use the akurai_geo_header_name filter in your child theme.
In this case I assume your custom header is called HTTP-Country-Code. You should replace it with its actual name.
<?php
add_filter('akurai_geo_header_name', fn () => 'HTTP-Country-Code');
And that's all you need to do. After you save the file, Akurai Geo plugin will use your custom header to detect visitor's country code.
Please note that the custom header should provide a
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2two-letter country code.
Custom Detection Script
If a custom header is not available to you and you want to use your own country detection script, you can do that as well.
You need to use the akurai_geo_country_code filter provided by Akurai Geo plugin. Here's what it may look like:
<?php
add_filter('akurai_geo_country_code', function() {
// your country code detection script
// which may not look exactly like this
$countryCode = (new EyeOfSauron())->getCountryCode();
// and in the end,
// you return ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country code
return $countryCode;
})
Please note that the custom function should return a
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2two-letter country code.