By far the simplest country allowlist plugin available. Locks admin panel and XMLRPC access to a given list of allowed countries.
As of April 2026, Admin Country Allowlist is a WordPress ban plugin with 80 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2024. Top alternative: WP-Ban.
By far the simplest country allowlist plugin available for WordPress. Locks admin panel and XMLRPC access to a given list of allowed countries using QWeb’s IP to country lookup API.
This is free open source software (FOSS), which you’re welcome to either use as-is, or fork and further develop under the very permissive terms of the MIT license.
Out of the box, this is most likely the simplest, most efficient plugin for restricting access to your WordPress admin panel to an allowlist of specific countries. Simply install and activate the plugin, obtain an access key via the QWeb Ltd API console, and enter your access key in the plugin settings. The plugin will automatically determine your own country and add this to the allowlist, and you can add other countries to the list as y…
| WordPress | 5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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