WP-Ban
Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referrer url from visiting your WordPress's blog.
3.7(27 reviews)
·9.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, WP-Ban is a WordPress ban plugin with 9.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 27 reviews. It has been downloaded 325K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 14% this week. Top alternative: Banhammer – Monitor Site Traffic, Block….
3.7/527 reviews
9.0K+active installs
325K+total downloads
19 yearssince 2007
Overview
It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referrer url that tries to visit you blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. There will be statistics recorded on how many times they attempt to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too.
Development
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Credits
- Plugin icon by Dave Gandy from Flaticon
Donations
- I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.
Upgrading
- Deactivate
WP-BanPlugin - Open
wp-content/pluginsFolder - Put/Overwrite:
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Can’t get it to do anything
by hugrat·5 years ago
Probably one of those ban plugins that don’t work if you do not have the exact default wordpress login.
Bummer..
nice tool
by kapaemtarik·5 years ago
I have been searching for a tool to get rid of robot users and their advertising comments at my site’s comment section. This extension worked. It successfully blocked 48 entry from 8 different ip adress within one day.
Thanks for providing it
It works!
by luckyjo·9 years ago
Love your hardwork!
Doesn’t work, for whatever reason
by jonrolph·9 years ago
For whatever reasons, I cannot get this plugin to work. I’ve tried banning both an entire IP range, as well as each IP within that range and I am still receiving visitor reports stating that my site is receiving visitors from that range.
Maybe it works, but definitely slows everything down
by d-phrag·10 years ago
Not sure if this actually works, but it slowed my admin operations to a very annoying speed. I would rather de-install this one. Sorry
Download Trends
Today: 12Yesterday: 23This week: 109Period total: 12K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.3+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.69
95.3%
Other
4.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Version 1.69.2
- NEW: Don’t allow to access ban-options.php directly
Version 1.69.1
- NEW: Fixed XSS
Version 1.69
- NEW: Bump WordPress 4.7
- FIXED: Notices
Version 1.68
- NEW: Use translate.wordpress.org to translate the plugin
- NEW: Use HTML DOCTYPE
- FIXED: Remove get_language_attributes()
Version 1.67
- FIXED: Notices
Version 1…
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