Currency Switcher for WooCommerce – GeoIP feature to be rewritten
In the past days, a few Users reported poor performance on their websites when they used the Currency Switcher plugin with the GeoIP feature enabled. After an in-depth investigation, the culprit seems to be the fact that, in some circumstances, the remote service used to provide live IP-to-Geolocation takes a long time to respond (sometimes, up to 10 seconds). This, of course, has an impact on the Currency Switcher plugin and on the website where it is running.
The Solution
To prevent this issue from occurring in the future, I’m going to rewrite the code that provides the GeoIP functionality, so that it won’t have to rely on an external website anymore. This will bring a performance improvement and ensure a consistent experience.
I will give this task a high priority, to make sure that a new version can be released soon. Meanwhile, if you experience a slowdown on your website, please disable the GeoIP feature and see if the situation improves. If not, please contact Support using the link on the top left of this page. Thanks.
Update – 15/07/2013
GeoIP feature rewrite is complete and a new version of the plugin has been released.
Hello, i also see http://woogeolocation.com/ as geolocation for woocommerce, you know it?
It’s the first time we hear of that service. It serves a different purpose from our solutions, I think it should work together with our products.
Hello thanks for posting this post i am business partner for woogeolocation.com
, may i know about your product so we both can collaborate and can create big tool for market
My skype is keshav.kalra2
Hi Keshav,
We have over a dozen products for WooCommerce, which greatly simplify the internationalisation of an ecommerce. They handle multi-currency pricing, regional pricing, product availability, tax regulations and more. Our products should work with your solutions out of the box, as their features are complementary. 🙂