updated : April 22, 2013

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Shortcode to display users IP address in posts & pages

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Adding this snippet to the functions.php of your wordpress theme will let you use a shortcode to display the users IP address in your posts or pages.

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function display_user_ip() {
	$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
	return $ip;
}
add_shortcode('user_ip', 'display_user_ip');

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http://wpsites.net/ Brad Dalton
What are the benefits of displaying the the users I.P address in your posts and pages?
- Jaybe
  It’s just a choice, if you wanted to show someone you knew their IP. It really serves little purpose unless you’re wanting to point out, “Hey – I know where you’re coming from… here’s your address…”, or if you provide a service for your users that gives them their IP address as seen by/on the internet. Unless you have a need, I wouldn’t push that information out to the public.
Djenar
I added this snippet to the function.php, but I didn’t see any IP address show on my website.
Can you tell me more about this? Thanks.