How to Enable Geo-Location in WP Travel?

The Geo-Location feature in WP Travel Pro automatically detects a user’s location and adjusts the currency accordingly, enhancing the booking experience with localized pricing. In this simple guide, you’ll learn how to enable the Geo-Location in WP Travel.

Steps to Enable Geo-Location:

Step 1: Activate WP Travel Pro

Ensure that the WP Travel Pro plugin is installed and activated on your site.

Step 2: Enable the Multiple Currency Module

Navigate to WP Admin > WP Travel > Settings > Module Settings > Pro Modules. Find and enable the Multiple Currency module.

For more details, refer to the documentation:
Multiple Currency – WP Travel Docs

Step 3: Turn On Geo-Location

Go to WP Admin > WP Travel > Settings > Miscellaneous > Third Party Integrations > Multiple Currency. Enable the Use Geo Location option.

Once enabled, WP Travel will automatically detect your site visitors’ location and display prices in their local currency.

Note: When Geo-Location is enabled, the Currency Selector will not be visible on the frontend, as the currency is automatically determined based on the user’s location.

On the frontend, a pop-up will appear to confirm the location-based currency change, as shown in the attached screenshot.

Show Currency Selector with Geo-Location

If you want to keep the Currency Selector visible while Geo-Location is enabled, you can use the following hook.

Add this snippet to your child theme’s functions.php file or via a plugin like Code Snippets:

add_filter( 'wp_travel_enable_geo_location_and_currency_switcher', function() {
    return true;
});

This allows visitors to manually switch currencies, even when Geo-Location is active.

Bypass Geo-Location Popup

By default, users will see a pop-up asking to confirm the currency switch. If you’d prefer to skip the popup and automatically switch currencies based on the user’s location, add the following code snippet to your child theme functions.php file or use a plugin like code snippets.

add_filter( 'wptravel_geo_location_confirmation',  function(){ 
	return true;
});

This will instantly apply the currency change based on the user’s location, without showing the confirmation pop-up.

Conclusion

By following these simple steps, you can now enable the Geo-Location in WP Travel.