Description
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.
Installation
- Go to Plugins Add New, search for Globe Visitors Counter, then Install Activate
— or upload the ZIP manually. -
Insert the shortcode into any page or post:
[visitors_globe_lite title=”VISITORS” width=”100%” height=”600″]
- Open the page — the 3D globe appears inside an iframe.
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Visits are logged locally in:
/wp-content/uploads/visitors-lite-landcover/visitors.json
FAQ
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Does it collect personal data?
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No.
A minimal JSON record is stored locally only to draw the globe.
Nothing is sent to third-party analytics providers. -
Is it compatible with caching/CDN?
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Yes — the viewer is iframe-isolated.
If you use aggressive minify/defer, exclude only the page with the globe. -
Will it slow down my theme?
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No. The viewer runs inside an iframe served from uploads, fully detached from your theme and plugins.
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Contributors & Developers
“Globe Visitors Counter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
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


