Polarsteps Integration
Wordpress Plugin to integrate Travel Data from Polarsteps within a widget.
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Polarsteps Integration shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 200+ sites and was last updated 8 years ago, and scores 26/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (200+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 7 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 5.0 (latest is 7.1)
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Polarsteps Integration stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| polarsteps | #1 |
| travel | >100 |
| travel blog | >100 |
| travelmap | #2 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
About Polarsteps Integration
From the official readme · v0.4.0Description
Polarsteps.com offers a great way of logging your travel experiences. The app does record GPS Locations “Steps”. The user can add images and texts for them. However, for multiple reasons, a lot of travelers are having WordPress travel blogs up and running. If they still want to use Polarsteps and show their last location in their WordPress instance, this plugin offers basic integration between both worlds.
While being on my round the world trip, I was looking into several options how to communicate back home from my journey. In the end, I thought a combination of a traditional blogging platform used to write posts and an app like Polarsteps offers the most flexibility for me while traveling. If my girlfriend or I want to write an article what happened in the last days (for multiple locations) we can do so. If it’s just about letting everyone know where I was, I use polarsteps travel tracker. Still, for the audience it is important to have all in one place – and have a single point of knowledge.
This plugin does the first approach to caching the “Steps” on WordPress-side and giving to the users a brief information within a widget where and when the last location within polarsteps was set.
See the Github-Repo here: https://github.com/npersonn/integrate-polarsteps
Disclaimer
As I’m not part of the company behind Polarsteps and just developed the plugin for personal purposes, I reached out to them, in order to check, if they might support the plugin officially. Mainly due to business and UX reasons, they responded they could not officially support my approach. This means the APIs on their side could change from one day to another. In this case, the plugin would stop getting new steps from your Polarsteps profile.
Installation
- Register an account for Polarsteps (if not already done)
- Install the plugin. Upload a zip-archive or upload
polarsteps-integrationdirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Obtain Username (and if needed Trip Id) from Polarsteps.com and add it to the plugin’s settings (see FAQs)
- Create Trip (with at least one Step) on Polarsteps.com and make sure it is public
- If WP-Cron is not activated. Install & activate Cronjob Plugin e.g.
Cronjob Scheduler - Schedule the action
polarsteps_update_stepswhenever needed e.g. hourly - Add the widget to your page to see the last location (“Step”) on your page
Changelog
From Version 0.4.0 the plugin needs cUrl and it's PHP-extension installed.
0.4.0
- Use cUrl for API-Calls
- Add scalar Typehints
0.3.5
- Bugfix: Adapt Connector due to breaking change on
usersendpoint - Use api.polarsteps.com instead of www.polarsteps.com
0.3.4
- Usability: Validating, if a Username exists on Settings Change
- Bugfix: If a User exists, but does not have a public trip an error is logged.
0.3.3
- Usablity: Updating & showing the recent location in the options, after a username is changed
0.3.2
- Fixing issue on Admin-page, not showing the correct polarsteps_username
0.3.1
- Fixing issue of incomplete data-sets from API. Added Update-Query for missing location names
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FAQ
Polarsteps Integration: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 2, 2026
Is Polarsteps Integration free?
Yes. Polarsteps Integration is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Polarsteps Integration safe to use in 2026?
Polarsteps Integration shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 200+ sites and was last updated 8 years ago, and scores 26/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Polarsteps Integration?
Polarsteps Integration is active on 200+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 6,372 times since it launched in November 2017. It was downloaded 120 times in the last 30 days.
Does Polarsteps Integration work with WordPress 7.1?
Polarsteps Integration is officially tested up to WordPress 5.0.29, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
What PHP version does Polarsteps Integration need?
Polarsteps Integration requires PHP 7.0 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Polarsteps Integration last updated?
The latest version, 0.4.0, was released on January 8, 2019 (8 years ago).
Who makes Polarsteps Integration?
Polarsteps Integration is developed and maintained by npersonn.
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