The URI to MaxMind GeoLite Legacy database for IPv4.
Description
The filter hook “ip-location-block-maxmind-zip-ipv4” assigns the URI to Free GeoLite Legacy database file for IPv4 which can be downloaded by GZIP format.
Parameters
- $url
(string)https://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
Use case
The following code snippet in your theme’s functions.php can download the city database for IPv4.
function my_maxmind_ipv4( $url ) {
return 'https://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz';
}
add_filter( 'ip-location-block-maxmind-zip-ipv4', 'my_maxmind_ipv4' ); NOTE: When you select
"mu-plugins" (ip-location-block-mu.php) as Validation timing , you should put your code snippet into drop-in.php in Geolocation API folder instead of functions.php. See My custom functions in “functions.php” doesn’t work. in FAQ for detail. Since
1.2.0