IP2Location Country Blocker
Blocks unwanted visitors from accessing your frontend (blog pages) or backend (admin area) by countries or proxy servers.
4.2(124 reviews)
·30K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, IP2Location Country Blocker is a WordPress ip address plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 124 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: IP Location Block.
4.2/5124 reviews
30K+active installs
100%resolved
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
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 customi…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.2124 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works, but not the best long-term solution
by Rodrigo Filardi, SEO Consultant·6 months ago
For performance and SEO, it’s usually better to block countries and bots at the hosting or firewall level. This plugin is a fallback option when those tools aren’t available. It does the job, but it’s not as efficient as server-side or CDN-based solutions.
No Support, No Email Replies
by Chad·6 months ago
They stopped replying to our emails for geo correction (we have over 500,000 IPv4 addresses used by top VPN providers globally) plus over /24 of IPv6 in inventory, yet they reply to our clients’ emails virtually instantly (same day). Terrible support and ignorant company.
It Works Perfectly
by Milan·7 months ago
I don’t agree with one star ratings. Plugin works perfectly. No issue with bin file or caching plugins. I appreciate to set up custom page to be shown. Exactyly what I need. Good job guys!
- This topic was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by Milan.
Terrible plugin/support
by jenniferim·7 months ago·1 reply
I tried to install this plugin on several WP sites and kept getting “Database Corrupted: Try again Later” errors.
I contacted their support and got a few emails and the last email I got they say they can no longer help.
While I think the plugin is a great idea, it would be even better if actually installed and worked!
Save your time on this one.
Excellent
by ssiddiqi4·7 months ago
Let me block bad actors to eliminate spam.
Download Trends
Today: 235Yesterday: 247This week: 2KPeriod total: 338K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.41
70.9%
Other
13.7%
v2.38
9.9%
v2.39
5.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
- 2.41.2 Tested up to WordPress 6.9.
- 2.41.1 Fixed “Download IPv4 database only” checkbox was ignore during database update.
- 2.41.0 Added Perplexity bot in crawler list.
- 2.40.0 Added ability to flush cached data.
- 2.39.5 Fixed issue saving backend error page.
- 2.39.4 Removed internal table updates.
- 2.39.3 Fixed statistics log stopped.
- 2.39.2 Minor bugs fix.
- 2.39.1 Required PHP 7.4 and above. Fixed default fie…
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