About this plugin
VisitorAtlas shows where your website audience comes from.
See VisitorAtlas in action on the live demo.
Use [visitoratlas] or the compatible [ps_live_visitor_globe] shortcode.
Add display=”n” to either shortcode to hide that display while sitewide tracking continues.
Core includes Globe and North-Pole-centered Polar Azimuthal projections, Satellite / Natural Earth and photorealistic maps, live and historical visitors, site/page
scope controls, an administrator-selected visitor period, approximately 100-mile
regional zoom, click/tap visitor details, a date-filtered acquisition dashboard, and a separate UTM link builder
with saved-link history,
and WordPress/Ultimate Member account attribution. Core can also email a branded,
timezone-aware weekly summary with traffic, pages, countries, sources, comparisons,
and conversion events. Existing conversion storage
and trusted PHP APIs remain available for compatibility and extensions.
Administrators choose the default projection and can optionally expose an icon-only
Globe/Polar switch to visitors. Polar mode mathematically reprojects the selected
2:1 equirectangular texture, uses the WordPress site clock for seasonal daylight,
uses a fixed 90-degree top-down North Pole view, masks geography and dims visitor
markers outside a hard-edged oval daylight cutout in an administrator-selected
top, right, bottom, or left position, supports bounded placement panning within
the frame, disables stars, and provides a numeric black-area alpha control that
can reveal the underlying map and visitor markers without altering
visitor records. Existing
installations continue to use Globe with the public projection switch off until
an administrator changes them. Administrators can rotate the complete Polar Sun
and geographic daylight field in 90-degree increments.
VisitorAtlas Pro is a separate add-on. It supplies Elementor Forms, configurable MailPoet,
Mailchimp for WordPress, Gravity Forms and WPForms adapters; Political, Dark
Earth, Light / Minimal, Country, Acquisition, and Visitor Heat Map styles; custom
Media Library textures; detailed acquisition and conversion reports; and bot traffic
reports. Pro is not embedded or payment-locked inside core.
All administration is under VisitorAtlas. Core registration and the public map
credit are optional and off by default. No remote executable scripts or
advertising SDK are included.
Privacy and external services
When IP geolocation is enabled, your server sends a visitor’s server-observed IP
is/ to obtain approximate city/region/country and coordinates.
This service is off by default on NEW installations; enable it in Settings after
reviewing your site privacy requirements. Existing installations retain their
prior enabled behavior. io/terms
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No raw IP is stored in plugin tables. Approximate coordinates are rounded to two
decimal places; zoom never increases the accuracy of the underlying location.
The plugin uses a browser identity/first-acquisition cookie and browser storage,
retains salted identifiers, visited page paths without query strings, approximate device type and browser family, acquisition
source/medium/campaign, timestamps, and linked WordPress user IDs where available.
For detected bots it also stores a category, type, and recognized name, but not
the full user-agent string. Detected bot visits follow the same retention setting.
Conversion storage retains attribution and hashed external event identifiers;
provider form fields and email addresses are not copied into conversion rows.
Administrators control exclusions and retention. Public map data includes
approximate places, page paths and visit times. Review whether displaying it is
appropriate for the pages where you place the shortcode.
No privacy consent manager is included. Integrate with your site’s consent
workflow where required. Turning off geolocation does not disable acquisition.
Existing retention cleanup remains active unless Unlimited is enabled. Changing
Visitors since only filters the display. Deactivation/deletion does not purge
stored plugin tables or options.
Core registration is off by default. Administrators may explicitly enable it in
VisitorAtlas > Settings. When enabled, Core sends the WordPress home URL,
administrator email, generated installation token, and Core version to
io/api/core/v1/installation/ on activation and when the
setting is enabled. Deactivation sends an inactive status and any reason the
administrator chooses to provide. This supports the Core Activations record and
Core update notices to active installations. Visitor analytics and visited page
paths are not sent with Core registration. Administrators may disable registration
io.
io/ and is also off
by default. Both choices can be changed in Settings. See the
VisitorAtlas privacy policy.
Support
For installation guidance, map configuration, privacy information, and troubleshooting, see the VisitorAtlas documentation:
php
org page or the VisitorAtlas contact form:
topic=core
VisitorAtlas Pro customers can access private support, license information, downloads, and Pro documentation through their customer account:
io/account/
When requesting assistance, include your WordPress, PHP, VisitorAtlas Core, and VisitorAtlas Pro versions; the steps needed to reproduce the issue; and any relevant error text. Remove license keys, email addresses, and other private information before posting publicly.
Credits
Plugin author: VisitorAtlas. io/
© 2026 VisitorAtlas. io/
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Blue Marble data courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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