IP2Location Country Blocker

Just installed hopefully does what it says on the tin thanks

The plugin works well but you have to keep in mind that aside from the fact that you have to remove any caching plugins for it to work, you should also whitelist your own IP address right away in both the front end and back end settings. There are settings in each to automatically blacklist any IP address that hits the site more than X times in 24 hours (set to 10 by default, but it can be changed). Doing admin type stuff you can hit that threshold (like I did) and you will be wondering why your IP address has been blacklisted and why if you remove it from the blacklist it gets automatically put back on. This is actually a great feature but you have to be aware of it and know how to take your own IP address out of the equation.

I'm happy to say that I posted a question on the support forum and got a response a few hours later, and now it is working perfectly. This is a great plugin for getting rid of unwanted traffic, especially if you are on a shared server plan with resource limits.

Why is it that after clicking "Deactivate", other plugins are deactivated instead of this plugin? I had tried many times in different dates, the same results.

Works like a charm.

IP2Location Country blocker is a highly recommended tool, to get rid of annoying traffic. We run a small website addressing 1 country only, with no foreign customers (imagine something like a local hairdresser or a barber shop). We combine the plugin with a smart (although hand edited) htaccess file, and get wonderful clean statistics, no shopping-cart-scam anymore (running out of stock because of merchandise is in shopping cart, but never ordered); no vulnerability scans anymore, and no statistics trolls anymore - all this without damaging SEO.

Excellent support. Great plugin.

I just have to say that this plugin is literally SAVING my website. I have been receiving reports about failed logins to my website (over 1k for 2-3 months!). I used a different plugin to find the IP addresses only to find that they all belong to only two countries... The plugin gives you the option to block specific IPs or countries. I started blacklisting IPs individually, but after figuring out where they are coming from, I just blacklisted those countries. Job done.

Also to add because I see some reviews mentioning interference with other cache plugins (even though it's indicated in the description that they need to be disabled, which is not really the best solution), in my case, it still works with a cache plugin I use to improve my site's performance.

Thank you!

Hi guys, I installed your plugin before I knew much about it and was only able to make this work after disabling our caching plugin: W3 Total cache.

I see your disclaimer about disabling all caching plugin. I am asking politely, "Please explain to us why a caching plugin prevents your plugin from working?"

Caching is kind of a big deal. Comparing the Benefits of a caching plugin - to a country location blocker - I would have to say the caching plugin wins hands down as the benefits of caching helps achieve SERP ranking by improving a website's performance. I provide a TEXT link .. ( not allowed to include an actual link in a review. ) so others can see these caching benefits that I'm talking about.

wordpress.org (forwardslash) plugins (forwardslash) w3-total-cache

It is for this reason I give your product 2/5 stars... it works, but not without being disruptive of our website's performance.

It works good!

Absolutely brilliant plugin. Easy to install, and started working right away.

One of my websites has been getting slammed for the last 5 days with a bot from one specific country. Installed the plugin late last night, and the visits from that country are already down from more than 6,600 an hour to less than 150. I have also just lowered the threshold for the plugin to start blocking front end visits from a specific IP to a much lower number, and that seems to be catching most of the ones still slipping through. Very happy with the result so far, so will be installing it on the other 4 sites I own.

Thanks so much for this. It's really made my day a lot less stressful :)

Could not make the plugin work with the latest version of Wordpress