It blocks spam posts, login attempts and malicious access to the back-end requested from the specific countries, and also prevents zero-day exploit.
As of April 2026, IP Geo Block is a WordPress login plugin with 9.0K+ active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 96 reviews. It has been downloaded 777K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: WPS Hide Login.
The more you install themes and plugins, the more likely your sites will be vulnerable, even if you securely harden your sites.
While WordPress.org provides excellent resources, themes and plugins may often get vulnerable due to developers’ human factors such as lack of security awareness, misuse and disuse of the best practices in those resources.
This plugin focuses on insights into such developers’ human factors instead of detecting the specific attack vectors after they were disclosed. This brings a smart and powerful methods named as “WP Zero-day Exploit Prevention” and “WP Metadata Exploit Protection“.
Combined with those methods and IP address geolocation, you’ll be surprised to find a bunch of malicious or undesirable access blocked in the…
Highly suggest no one install this. Right after install I got a critical error and was locked out of wp-admin.
Critical Error locked admin
Highly suggest no one install this. Right after install I got a critical error and was locked out of wp-admin.
Stops working if you use php 8.x. No updates for 4 years. Don’t bother with that and delete it.
After activating this plugin, my site stopped working
| WordPress | 3.7+ requiredTested up to 5.0.25 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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