IP Ban
Simple IP Ban is a lightweight ip / user agent ban plugin.
4(9 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, IP Ban is a WordPress ip ban plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 48K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 17% this week. Top alternative: Block IP Address for WooCommerce.
4/59 reviews
2.0K+active installs
48K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
UPDATE1: For the admin user the plugin it’s not active.
UPDATE2: Added Ip Range feature for ip list.
IP Ban is a security plugin, protects your site accessing from unwanted ip addresses or user agents. You can add ip addresses or user agents creating your own black list.
It also good to protect your site from unwanted crawlers, which uses your resource and bandwidth. Just add an ip address or user agent and things will happened.
After the plugin activation, in the SETTINGS menu you’ll see the Simple IP BAN submenu. Here you have 3 textareas:
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Add ip address or range here.
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Add user agents here.
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Define external url . All spammers will be redirected to this url.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Simple and works well
by moonyell·6 years ago
Hope this plugin may keep updating.
Works. Simple and lightweight plugin.
by wp_ntnguy·8 years ago
I previously rated this plugin as 1 star because it locked me out of my own website. It turns out, it was because I was on the wrong Wi-Fi network. Now that I got it to work, I am giving it 5 stars. A simple and lightweight plugin and it is exactly what I was looking for to ban IP addresses.
DON’T USE if you want to log in to your site
by stevedemo1·8 years ago
Locked me out of my site, I had to FTP in and delete the plugin.
Everything looks fine until you log out then BAM it blocked me.
It may have worked at one time but it doesn’t work now.
5 stars
by idmesspass·10 years ago
Good work team! It is exactly what i needed and you made a great job with it! Thank you!
Works and is very easy to use
by Redneval·10 years ago
The simple ip ban is purely simple. Very easy to understand. You just type the ip you want to ban and that very ip get banned. No criteria, filters or anything complicated. You just need something like limit-login-attempts-like widget or tool or whatever to find those suspicious ip. Then you type those ip to block them from attempting to login your site again.
Download Trends
Today: 5Yesterday: 3This week: 34Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.1.0+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.3
66.4%
v1.2
33.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.3.0
- [Test] WordPress 4.7
- [Fix] Plugin may not ban well on all hosting providers and on wide ranges of IP
(like 125.80.0.0 125.87.255.255), due to the fact that ip2long can return negative values in some cases.
(Reported by Fernando) - [Test] WordPress 4.4.1
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