VisitorAtlas

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. No license server, telemetry service, remote executable scripts, or advertising SDK is included.

2.6.21

• Let Pro add authenticated Cloud Site URLs to the UTM Link Builder destination dropdown.

2.6.20

• Default Visitors since to the first retained human visit on the primary tracked site when no historical limit is set.
• Replace persistent vector-grid coordinate labels with selectable intersection popups showing latitude and longitude to two decimal places.
• Add grid-intersection guidance and place the mapped-sessions counter beside the pause/play control, aligned with the instructions on wide maps.
• Refresh the globe CSS and JavaScript URLs when their contents change, including revised local test packages with the same version number.
• Rename the Core administration menu link to Pro - Coming Soon.

2.6.19

• Add an optional vector latitude and longitude grid with coordinate labels and separate label styling. The grid is off by default.
• Start the public map on All traffic and let its Share button link to the page being viewed.
• Clarify that disabling approximate IP geolocation still records visits and pageviews for traffic and acquisition reports.

2.6.18

• Add optional settings hooks for Pro Cloud Sites, including a preview of the saved Cloud Site visualization. Local WordPress settings and visitor tracking remain unchanged.
• Show authenticated Pro Cloud Sites in Acquisition Sources and reject unavailable site selections instead of loading a report for another site.

2.6.16

• Move the UTM Link Builder and saved links to a separate VisitorAtlas admin page.
• Add site, date-range, and channel controls to the Core Acquisition Sources dashboard, with daily visit history, summary totals, and filtered traffic, source, device, and browser tables.
• Record installation dates for new activations and use the earliest known date for upgraded installations.
• Count WordPress signups by account creation date, attributed to each account's earliest retained human visit.

2.6.15

• Add a permanent green North Pole marker above the Polar daylight mask.
• Anchor Polar zoom to the pointer for mouse-wheel and trackpad input, and to the midpoint between fingers for pinch gestures, keeping the geographic point beneath the anchor fixed during zoom.
• Animate live visitor markers with one thin white ring expanding to an approximately 200-mile geographic radius every 1.5 seconds on both projections, respecting reduced-motion preferences.
• Default public traffic scope to This Page while preserving configured scope overrides and the All control.
• Add an optional display shortcode attribute to hide the complete frontend component without disabling sitewide tracking or authorised reports.
• Keep live and past visitor markers visible at 25 percent opacity in the fully black Polar night area, with selectable locations and visible live ripples.

2.6.14

• Scope globe interaction and focus styles to the VisitorAtlas component so dashboard controls cannot affect the surrounding WordPress administration interface.
• Prepare the complete MailPoet reconciliation queries with placeholders.
• Use a fixed, allowlisted conversion column list and placeholder layout for atomic conversion upserts.

2.6.13

• Register and enqueue frontend and administration scripts and styles through the appropriate WordPress APIs and hooks.
• Replace directly printed administration script and style blocks while preserving the Upgrade to Pro menu behavior.
• Adopt visitoratlas-prefixed canonical PHP APIs, hooks, REST routes, AJAX actions, cron names, and asset handles while retaining compatibility aliases and stored data from earlier releases.
• Update the Plugin URI to the accessible VisitorAtlas product page.

2.6.12

• Allow all generated UTM links to remain saved until an administrator deletes them.
• Correct bundled third-party notices filename references.
• Improve WordPress.org repository readiness and validation.

2.6.11

• Added a styled Share button at the public map frame's top right, above the Globe/Polar Azimuthal projection switch.
• Shares the VisitorAtlas demo campaign link and description through the native Web Share API, with clipboard and manual-copy fallbacks.

2.6.10

• Add one frontend Play/Pause rotation button beside Reset for both Globe and Polar Azimuthal projections.
• Fit the default and minimum Polar zoom so the Earth diameter equals the frame height while keeping the North Pole centered, and retain the Globe model's inward zoom range.
• Restore the World view label for the Polar Azimuthal frontend.

2.6.9

• Apply a Gaussian daylight-edge blur with a normalized sigma of 0.03 for a tighter transition than earlier Polar renderers.
• Load the Gaussian helper in the correct fragment-shader scope so WebGL initialization and visitor-data loading complete normally.

2.6.8

• Retain the 2.6.7 daylight-mask and black-area behavior while reducing the east/west fillet radius to 0.14.
• Increase only the Polar Azimuthal map and visitor-location scale by five percent around the centered North Pole.
• Scale the Sun and declination-driven northern terminator with the map while keeping the south, east, and west mask limits stationary.

2.6.7

• Provide a Polar-only Black area alpha number field from 0 to 100; 100 fully blacks out the exterior map and visitors, while 0 reveals both completely.
• Replace the feathered daylight-mask boundary with a hard edge and apply the same black-area alpha to the map and visitor layers.
• Treat the enclosed projected oval as daylight and render everything outside it as black, with the daylight marker inside the oval.
• Restore the Polar-only Daylight position control so 0°, 90°, 180°, and 270° place the daylight oval and marker at the top, right, bottom, and left respectively.
• Correct the seasonal north/south terminators: northern months move daylight northward, southern months move it southward, and the equinoxes meet at the poles.
• Round the east and west junctions where the hard daylight oval meets the Antarctic rim, without adding opacity or feathering.
• Extend the east and west terminator endpoints to the globe's full radius so they meet the Antarctic rim at opposite points 180° apart.
• Curve the outer daylight-mask corners inward while preserving the solar-declination placement of the north and south terminators.
• Replace the flat-center, side-notch mask profile with a continuous curved arc from the seasonal center to both Antarctic-rim endpoints.
• Restore the earlier full-radius seasonal terminator and round only its east/west junctions with the Antarctic rim using a hard-edged geometric fillet.
• Reduce the east/west fillet radius by half for a tighter transition into the Antarctic rim.
• Use a revised globe asset URL so same-version 2.6.7 replacements cannot reuse an earlier cached renderer.

2.6.6

• Add a Polar-only Daylight position control with 0° top, 90° right, 180° bottom, and 270° left choices; existing installations retain the prior 90° right position.
• Rotate the Sun marker, geographic daylight mask, twilight edge, and visitor-marker dimming together while preserving seasonal north/south exposure, placement panning, and black-area alpha.
• Label the resting Polar scale as Earth view while retaining World view for the Globe and mileage labels at closer zoom levels.

2.6.5

• Restore the undistorted geographic Sun-dot-product calculation so the east/west terminator anchors remain fixed while north/south exposure follows NOAA-style solar declination.
• Scale map visibility through low solar elevations instead of treating every point just above the horizon as fully bright; around October 1 the North Pole is dark and the South Pole is only barely visible.
• Keep the daylight texture, twilight edge, visitor-marker dimming, Sun position, black-area alpha, and placement panning aligned across equinox and solstice checks.

2.6.4

• Match the supplied Polar daylight sample with a bright right-side daylight cutout whose terminator and outer edge feather into black, leaving no visible night-side globe outline at the default setting.
• Add an administrator-controlled Polar black-area alpha slider from 0% to 100%; 100% fully hides the night map, while lower values progressively reveal its geography.
• Update the admin preview live as the alpha slider moves and preserve seasonal north/south exposure, fixed east/west orientation, Sun alignment, visitor markers, and placement panning.

2.6.3

• Keep the complete Polar map visible while rendering night geography as a very dark, readable surface instead of an empty black cutout.
• Shape the right-hand daylight region as a bright rounded field with a broad feathered terminator and darker outer-rim falloff, following the supplied visual reference.
• Keep the Sun marker, visitor dots, seasonal north/south daylight exposure, and placement panning aligned with the revised day/night rendering.

2.6.2

• Illuminate the right-hand Polar region and place the Sun marker on that same daylight side while preserving seasonal north/south exposure and the feathered terminator.
• Change Polar pointer and arrow-key dragging from geographic rotation to bounded horizontal/vertical placement panning of the complete Earth visualization.
• Keep the Polar texture, daylight mask, Sun, visitor dots, and interaction hit targets aligned during pan, zoom, reset, resize, and automatic rotation.
• Recenter Polar placement on Reset without changing existing Globe drag behavior or configured automatic rotation.

2.6.1

• Lock Polar Azimuthal to its circular 90-degree top-down North Pole view while retaining horizontal rotation, zoom, and visitor interactions.
• Correct the fixed daylight side and Sun marker to match the intended left-side exposure without reversing seasonal north/south illumination.
• Feather the twilight edge more gently while keeping full night geography black and visitor-dot dimming aligned to the same daylight calculation.
• Keep the geographic east/west terminator anchors fixed while WordPress-date solar declination adjusts north/south daylight exposure throughout the year.

2.6.0

• Add a Core North-Pole-centered Polar Azimuthal projection using the existing map-style and visitor-data pipelines.
• Add administrator default-projection radios and an optional accessible public Globe/Polar projection switch.
• Add WordPress-timezone-aware solar declination, geographic daylight masking, a fixed Sun marker, and 75 percent night-side visitor-marker dimming in Polar mode.
• Preserve existing Globe backgrounds and stars while forcing a black, star-free Polar presentation.
• Keep Core/Pro style entitlements, custom equirectangular maps, traffic scope, history, zoom, and renderer lifecycle shared across projections.

2.5.0

• Associate visits and conversion analytics with a stable primary tracked-site identity.
• Safely backfill retained analytics during a resumable database upgrade.

2.4.2

• Treat the Settings date as the earliest historical limit for globe data.
• Add an optional frontend calendar that lets visitors choose a start date within the available history.
• Keep globe markers, counters, live locations, and the displayed period synchronized with the selected date.

2.4.1

• Move the detailed Human Acquisition Report, its queries, activity columns, Columns control, and row actions entirely into the separate Pro add-on.
• Move all bot traffic report queries and presentation into Pro while retaining Core bot detection and human-traffic filtering.
• Keep the Core Traffic Source Summary and Device & Browser Breakdown available without Pro, and add neutral reporting extension hooks for add-ons.

2.4.0

• Add an optional Weekly Email Report to Core with a configurable recipient and delivery day.
• Summarize the previous completed seven-day period with week-over-week metrics, top pages, countries, acquisition sources, and conversion events.
• Schedule delivery at approximately 8:00 a.m. in the WordPress site timezone and keep scheduling aligned across timezone and daylight-saving changes.

2.3.9

• Show the Upgrade to Pro admin-menu link in yellow.
• Add a Device & Browser Breakdown below acquisition reporting. New visits record only broad device and browser categories; older visits appear as Unknown.
• Add six Pro activity columns and a column chooser. Action totals require verified events from provider integrations or the trusted conversion API.

2.3.8

• Add a shared globe refresh interval for the admin preview and public globes.
• Prevent caching of live visitor statistics so public viewers receive current dots and counts.

2.3.7

• Add a delete action to each saved UTM link in Core and Pro.

2.3.6

• Add saved generated-link history to the UTM Link Builder.

2.3.5

• Show live activity in the Core traffic source summary with the same green indicator used by Pro; refresh it every 30 seconds.

2.3.4

• Remove site-specific MailPoet form tracking from Core; Pro supports configurable MailPoet form IDs.
• Keep reconciliation for previously stored pending MailPoet conversions.
• Describe Pro provider integrations without assuming a particular form ID.

2.3.3

• Show a channel summary in Core; Pro unlocks source, medium, campaign, and conversion detail.
• Keep bot detection and filtering in Core; show a locked bot report until Pro is active.

2.3.2

• Add a blue Upgrade to Pro menu link below Conversion Integrations that opens the Pro plans in a new tab while Pro is inactive.

2.3.1

• Restore the globe wrapper required for the admin preview, Dashboard, and public shortcode globe to render.

2.3.0

• Satellite / Natural Earth is now the default Core style; removed Bright, Soft Daylight, and Wireframe choices. Prior saved Pro styles remain available when Pro is active.
• Add Pro Country, Acquisition, and Visitor Heat Map views based on mapped human sessions.
• Acquisition report rows now have a live indicator and refresh every 30 seconds. Reset starts a row’s visible totals from the reset time; Delete continues to hide it without deleting stored data.
• Remove the button border weight and visitor data scope settings; rename Recent settings to Live.
• Promote confirmed MailPoet signups and reconcile previously pending MailPoet events in background batches.

2.2.3

• Promote pending MailPoet conversions on MailPoet's confirmed-subscription event, including confirmations completed from another device or an excluded administrator session.
• Recheck existing attributed pending MailPoet conversions against subscribed MailPoet records in small background batches after upgrading.

2.2.2

• Refreshed the WordPress Dashboard acquisition bars every 30 seconds through a read-only, administrator-only request. The globe and bars continue to use their existing counts and tracking paths.

2.2.1

• Clarified that the globe counter counts recent and mapped visit sessions, not page views or unique people.

2.2.0

• Replaced the home reset icon with a circular reset arrow and joined the All/This Page scope controls into one pill.
• Added image thumbnails and radio selection for globe styles, with locked Pro previews in Core.
• Moved the globe preview above Settings, added Save Changes after each settings section, and removed the separate Live Visitor Globe menu page.
• Added referral-spam domain detection and retroactive classification for matching stored referrals. Bot reports include referring domains.

2.1.0

• Combined Globe Settings with Settings and added a globe preview there.
• Added button appearance controls, stacked zoom/home controls, and a right-aligned location hint.
• Classified bot sessions for reports and excluded detected bots from globe data and human acquisition totals.
• Added a WordPress Dashboard globe and five-category past/live visitor bar report.
• Added bot totals and category/type/name breakdowns to Acquisition Sources.

2.0.4

• Added a targeted MailPoet subscription bridge for an early deployment (removed in 2.3.4).
• Keep unconfirmed subscriptions pending until MailPoet confirms them, with the original acquisition attribution.

2.0.3

• Added Photorealistic — Bright and Photorealistic — Soft Daylight using the bundled NASA texture.
• Preserved the existing Photorealistic appearance and saved settings.

2.0.2

• Blue/white active scope and light-gray/black inactive scope, including hover/focus.
• Visitor counter moved to the lower-right edge, with narrow-layout spacing.
• Pointing cursor over selectable visible visitor markers; grab cursor elsewhere.

2.0.1

• Compact zoom buttons with preserved touch targets.
• Joined traffic-scope toggle matching the PortionSet calculator units selector.
• Core-only presentation update; compatible with VisitorAtlas Pro 2.0.0.

2.0.0

• Rebranded the v1.7.0 baseline to VisitorAtlas, published by Liberty Dynamics.
• Unified administration; separate Pro add-on and documented extension hooks.
• Added page/site scope controls and a timezone-aware Visitors since date.
• Added regional zoom, keyboard controls, accessible touch targets and popovers.
• Preserved nearby/co-located sessions and rendered live markers last/on top.
• Added Elementor Forms in Pro and six globe presets across core plus Pro.
• Replaced the undocumented texture with traceable public-domain map sources.
• Preserved existing schema, identifiers, retention, conversion APIs and reports.