iQ Block Country
Allow or disallow visitors from certain countries accessing (parts of) your website
3.9(163 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, iQ Block Country is a WordPress block plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 3.9/5 rating from 163 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.2M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5.2+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 9% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Spectra Gutenberg Blocks – Website….
3.9/5163 reviews
20K+active installs
100%resolved
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
iQ Block Country is a plugin that allows you to limit access to your website content. You can either allow or disallow visitors from defined countries to (parts of) your content.
For instance if you have content that should be restricted to a limited set of countries you can do so.
If you want to block rogue countries that cause issues like for instance hack attempts, spamming of your comments etc you can block them as well.
Do you want secure your WordPress Admin backend site to only your country? Entirely possible! You can even block all countries and only allow your ip address.
And even if you block a country you can still allow certain visitors by putting their ip address on the allow list just like you can allow a country but put ip addresses on the block list from that country.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
It doesn’t work
by madarkosh·5 months ago·2 replies
It doesn’t work at all and after activating it forces you to buy data from their site.
Works as advertised!
by tranxhdr·1 year ago
Needed a plugin to block specific countries from accessing my site, specifically India and Pakistan. Both countries have no good reason to access my site. Google Analytics show both countries rank in the top 3 for traffic coming to my site. Pretty sure it’s no good user agent actors for malicious activities. iQ Block Country works like a charm. I even tested it myself by using a vpn and it blocked access for IPs coming from India and Pakistan.
Multiple Sites – No Issues For Years
by Scott Hendison·1 year ago
I’ve used this on more than a dozen sites over the years, and the functionality has been fantastic. I do wish there was an easier way to keep the IPs current without FTP, but I’m a fan. Keep up the good work!
- This topic was modified 1 year ago by Scott Hendison.
Does not work!!
by jrdon718·1 year ago·1 reply
Waste of time.
no support
by marcie73·1 year ago·4 replies
It does not work and nobody answer.
Download Trends
Today: 96Yesterday: 121This week: 605Period total: 67K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
98.1%
v1.1
1.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.26
- Fix: Plugin was no longer compatible with PHP 7
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