Active installations30K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.1 / 5 from 128 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records IP2Location Country Blocker version 2.46.0 as active, updated 4d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
This plugin will NOT work if any cache plugin is enabled.
This plugin enables user to block unwanted traffic from accessing your frontend (blog pages) or backend (admin area) by countries or proxy servers. It helps to reduce spam and unwanted sign ups easily by preventing unwanted visitors from browsing a particular page or entire website.
Key Features
Allow you to block the access from multiple countries.
Allow you to block the access by country grouping, such as EU, APAC, and so on.
Allow you to block the access from anonymous proxies.
Allow you to block the access by IP ranges.
Allow you to whitelist the crawler, for example, Google, Bing, Yandex, and so on, to index your pages (SEO friendly).
Supports IPv4 and IPv6
Default to 403 error (Permission Denied) display
Allow you to customize your own 403 page.
Send you an email notification if some one is trying to access your admin area.
Provide you statistical report of traffics blocked.
This plugin supports both IP2Location BIN data and web service for IP geolocation lookup. If you would like to use the IP2Location geolocation BIN data, you can easily download and update the BIN data via the plugin settings page. Alternatively, you can also download and update the BIN data file manually using the below links:
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
block country
block proxy
ip address
ip2location
redirection
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.7 · PHP 7.4
Update activity29 Oct 20264d ago
“Tested up to” is directory metadata supplied by the plugin author. WP PlugIndex does not turn an older declaration into a claim that the plugin is incompatible.
Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
Version2.45.2→2.46.0
WordPress compatibility7.1.2→7.1.4
WordPress requirement4.6→4.7
Version2.45.1→2.45.2
Version2.45.0→2.45.1
WordPress compatibility7.1→7.1.2
Tracking & source
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