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IP Geo Block

It blocks spam posts, login attempts and malicious access to the back-end requested from the specific countries, and also prevents zero-day exploit.

By tokkonopapa·Login·Free
4.1(96 reviews)
·9.0K+ active installs·Updated 7 years ago
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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.

4.1/596 reviews
9.0K+active installs
777K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

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…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.196 reviews
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71
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2
2 ★
1
1 ★
18

Recent Reviews

Critical Error and locked me out of wp admin
by niallm1974·2 years ago·1 reply

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
by ososorio·3 years ago

Critical Error locked admin

Critical Error and locked me out of admin
by dagsix·3 years ago

Highly suggest no one install this. Right after install I got a critical error and was locked out of wp-admin.

Garbage
by maxlefou·3 years ago

Stops working if you use php 8.x. No updates for 4 years. Don’t bother with that and delete it.

  • This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by maxlefou. Reason: forgot to set stars
The plugin is destroying the site
by andrayleo·3 years ago

After activating this plugin, my site stopped working

Download Trends

Today: 6Yesterday: 10This week: 70Period total: 3K

Compatibility

WordPress3.7+ requiredTested up to 5.0.25
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v3.0
99.9%
v2.2
0.1%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

3.0.17.4

  • Fix issue: Add an option “Metadata Exploit Protection” in “Validation rules and behavior” section and make it disabled by default because it potentially caused “Sorry, your request cannot be accepted”.
  • Fix issue: Fix the issue that direct request to PHP files under plugins/themes directory was “404 Not found” when WP-ZEP enabled.
  • Fix issue: Fix the incorrect link to the corresponding option page on error message in multisite environment.
  • Improvement: Update the url to the google map api to prevent 301 redirection.
  • Improvement: Use RIPE stat Data API to get whois information instead of using YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) which was retired on Jan. 3, 2019.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

tokkonopapatokkonopapa
Plugin Info
Version
3.0.17.4
Last Updated
Jan 22, 2019
WP Requires
3.7+
Tested Up To
5.0.25
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
9.0K+
Downloads
777K+
Added
Feb 1, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

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Developer

T
tokkonopapa
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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