GeoGate

Where is the visitor?

• Country, region, city and continent from a local MaxMind-format database: one-click install of the free DB-IP Lite files, or point to your own GeoLite2 file. SiteStats' database is reused when present
• Network name and ASN from an ASN database; Tor exits from the official list; VPN and data-centre classification from the network name, with an optional proxycheck.io lookup
• Cloudflare's country header is honoured; proxy headers are trusted only behind a private peer
• Lookups are cached per IP and never leave the server. Visitors are not stored: statistics are one counter per day, country and page; the activity log keeps a masked IP

Content by region

• Shortcodes [geogate show="DE, AT"]…[/geogate], [geogate hide="EU" else="…"], [geogate vpn="yes"], [geogate_info field="country"]
• A "GeoGate region" block that wraps any blocks and shows or hides them server-side
• Body classes (gg-cc-de, gg-continent-eu, gg-eu, gg-vpn), <html data-gg-cc>, a geogate JavaScript object with is("EU, GB") and a geogate:ready event
• REST geogate/v1/me for headless front-ends; PHP helpers geogate_visitor(), geogate_is()

Rules

• One list expression everywhere: country codes, EU, continents (AFR ASI EUR NAM SAM OCE), GDPR / CCPA / LGPD regimes, states (US-CA), networks (AS12345), VPN / TOR / HOSTING, * for everyone
• Block or allow per scope: the whole site, wp-admin and login, checkout and cart (WooCommerce, CodeSell, /checkout paths), comments
• Blocked network list by ASN, allow-listed IPs and CIDR ranges, a signed bypass link for partners, a custom block page with a 451 / 403 / 404 / 503 status
• Administrators are never locked out; a country preview (?gg_as=DE) lets you test as any visitor

Redirects

• By visitor country and/or browser language, with {cc}, {lang} and {path} placeholders, 301 or 302, excluded paths, first-visit-only, an opt-out parameter, ordered first-match

Targeting

• HTML snippets at the top, in the footer or after the content; popups (once per browser); body classes; a different menu per region, for visitors from a region, on a VPN, or on mobile

VPN, proxy, Tor and data-centre traffic

• Flag (body class + X-GeoGate-Network header + rule token), challenge (one click, passes for a day) or block, per scope

Commerce

• WooCommerce currency and prices by region: multiply by a factor or keep the number, optional .99 rounding, currency exposed to JavaScript for any other shop

Consent

• A banner shown only where required (GDPR regions, US privacy-law states, Brazil) or everywhere; accept / reject / choose categories; a "do not sell or share" notice for US states; your colours, words and position
• Gate scripts with <script type="text/plain" data-gg-consent="analytics">; geogate_consent_allowed() in PHP, geogate.consent in JavaScript, a reopen link

See it

• Overview with a world map, top countries, continents, pages by region, recent decisions; an activity log; a lookup tester that shows every scope's verdict; Site Health check