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<a href="https://vpndeals.com/wordpress-plugins/country-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">Country Block</a> provides an exceptionally user-friendly, powerful, and modern IP geolocation blocking experience for WordPress. Our mission is to offer incredible value for free, helping you secure your website and control access with precision and ease.
Whether you want to block traffic from specific countries to reduce spam and malicious activity, or ensure your content is only accessible to visitors from designated regions, Country Block offers a flexible and robust solution.
Core Features:
<ul>
<li>Effortless Country Blocking: Easily block or allow access from multiple countries or pre-defined groups like the European Union.</li>
<li>Compatibility & Real IP Detection: Fully compatible with CDNs and reverse proxies like Cloudflare, Varnish, and Nginx. Includes an advanced setting to ensure the visitor’s real IP address is always detected, even behind proxy layers.</li>
<li>Express Onboarding Setup: A guided wizard gets you up and running in minutes upon activation.</li>
<li>Modern “2030 Era” UI: Enjoy an intuitive, clean, and responsive admin interface that’s a pleasure to use.</li>
<li>Flexible Geolocation Source:
<ul>
<li>Free Local Database (GeoLite2 by MaxMind): High-performance, reliable country-level blocking using a local MaxMind GeoLite2 database, updated automatically every day to ensure maximum accuracy. Requires a free MaxMind account for database updates.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Whitelisting: Exempt specific IP addresses/CIDR ranges, user roles, or URL paths from blocking rules.</li>
<li>Customizable Block Actions:
<ul>
<li>Show a customizable message (supports basic HTML).</li>
<li>Redirect blocked visitors to a specific WordPress page.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Detailed Logging & Statistics (Opt-in):
<ul>
<li>Keep track of blocked requests (IP, country, reason, timestamp).</li>
<li>View statistics on blocked activity.</li>
<li>Option to anonymize logged IPs for privacy.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Looking to block VPNs, Proxies, or TOR users? For an additional layer of security and anonymity control, check out our companion plugin: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/vpn-guard/" rel="ugc">VPN Guard</a>!
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin utilizes external services for its functionality. 
When you use features that rely on these services, this plugin may send data, including the visitor’s IP address, to the respective third-party service.
<ul>
<li>MaxMind (GeoLite2 Database)
<ul>
<li>Purpose: Used to download the local geolocation database.</li>
<li>Data Sent: Your MaxMind License Key is sent to download the database.</li>
<li>Links: <a href="https://www.maxmind.com/en/company/legal/terms-of-use" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="https://www.maxmind.com/en/company/legal/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

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