This plugin displays your visitor's IP address using a shortcode. It's lightweight, fast, and ideal for developers, diagnostics, and secured areas.

Great for:

• Your home page
• Posts
• Pages

FAQs

Q). Will this work on any WordPress installation?

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A). This depends on your server configuration and PHP version, but the plugin is tested with all standard WordPress environments.

Issues

Q). I have errors on my dashboard, it shows shell_exec() has been disabled for security reasons

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A). The dashboard widget may use shell_exec() for uptime info. If it's disabled on your server, the core functionality of the plugin (IP display) will still work fine.

1.0

• Initial public release.

1.1

• Added in a settings area and updated the admin display.

1.2

• Added in a server uptime section onto the dashboard widget.

1.3

• Removed the server uptime section as it was causing issues on specific hosting platforms. Removed the image from the mian dashboard.

1.4

• Updated content, source code and images.

1.5

• Updated contact URL, and performance compatibility tested up to version 5.7.2.

1.6

• Code review and content amends, tested up to version 6.2.1

1.7

• Improved shortcode logic to handle multiple IPs via HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
• Escaped IP and hostname output to prevent potential XSS vulnerabilities
• Fixed hardcoded version number in the dashboard widget
• Moved stylesheet to proper WordPress wp_enqueue_scripts action
• Corrected minor typos and wording in the admin settings page
• Tested and Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.8.2
• Added optional QR code for Buy Me a Coffee donations

1.8

• Added new shortcodes: [show_ip_hostname], [show_ip_useragent], [show_ip_referrer]
• Refactored structure to ensure zero external dependencies

Installation

• Download and unzip the plugin
• Save to your desktop and prepare for upload to your WordPress website
• Upload it to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder via FTP or use the built-in WordPress Plugin Installer
• Activate and use [show_ip] in a post, page, or widget.

If you want to install the plugin manually, download and unzip the show-ip-address.zip file and upload to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Then activate the plugin through the Plugins section in WordPress.

Or

• Install directly from the WordPress plugin area
• Activate

You can find, download and install Show IP address directly from the Plugins section in WordPress.

Issues

If you experience CSS issues with a class, make sure you dont have the following class in your CSS file, .box-ip or .img-show-ip those are two custom classes used by this plugin

Widgets

This simply shows an IP address on a specific page or widget by simply adding in these tags [show_ip], [show_ip_hostname], [show_ip_useragent], [show_ip_referrer].

Template Tags

[show_ip] – Use this tag on your pages to show your IP address. [show_ip_hostname] – Display IP hostname [show_ip_useragent] – Display browser user agent [show_ip_referrer] – Display referrer URL