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Advanced Country Blocker helps you secure your WordPress site by restricting access based on the visitor’s geolocation (country) or IP address. Upon activation, the plugin detects the activating admin’s country and automatically sets that as the only allowed country. All other visitors from different countries are blocked, unless they use a secret key parameter to temporarily whitelist their IP. Country detection uses the privacy-friendly ip-api.com service by default but can be switched to a fully offline MaxMind GeoLite2 (or compatible) database file once you configure a local copy.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Automatically allows the admin’s country on plugin activation.</li>
<li>Flexible IP-to-country lookups – start with the built-in ip-api.com integration and optionally switch to an offline MaxMind GeoLite2 Country (or compatible) <code>.mmdb</code> database file.</li>
<li>Allowlist or blacklist mode – choose whether the country list acts as an allowlist or blocklist without re-entering countries.</li>
<li>Temporary access via a customizable secret URL parameter (e.g., <code>?MySecretKey=1</code>).</li>
<li>CAPTCHA Challenge – allow blocked visitors to solve a CAPTCHA to gain temporary access (supports Google reCAPTCHA v2/v3, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile).</li>
<li>Real-Time Activity Monitor – live dashboard showing active visitors, recent blocks, and traffic statistics.</li>
<li>Analytics Dashboard – comprehensive charts and statistics about blocked attempts.</li>
<li>Manual blacklisting and safelisting of IPs for added security and to accommodate uptime monitors.</li>
<li>Optional email alerts when new visitors are blocked.</li>
<li>Admin bypass so logged-in admins can always access the site (toggleable in the code).</li>
<li>Detailed logging of blocked attempts in a custom database table, displayed in the WP admin.</li>
<li>Custom response controls – personalise the block page title/message, choose the HTTP status (403, 410, 451) or redirect to any URL.</li>
<li>Automatic log cleanup with configurable retention plus a one-click “Clear Logs” button.</li>
</ul>
Use the plugin settings page (Country Blocker menu in WP admin) to configure the list of allowed countries, blacklisted countries, blacklisted IPs, and whether email alerts are enabled.
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is open-sourced software licensed under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPLv3 or later</a>.
<h3>External Services</h3>
By default this plugin contacts the ip-api.com geolocation service to detect visitor countries. You can disable all external lookups by switching the IP lookup method to the local MaxMind database in the settings.

Advanced Country Blocker


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The AdSimple Cookie Consent Banner lets you add a fully GDPR-compliant cookie consent banner to your WordPress website — with or without an AdSimple account.
<h4>Two ways to get started</h4>
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<h4>Visual Configuration Wizard</h4>
The built-in wizard guides you through the setup in six steps:
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<li>🎨 Design — Pick a position (popup, bottom bar, top bar, corners), layout (classic, block, wireframe), color theme, and fine-tune with custom colors, shadow effects, and a settings button.</li>
<li>✏️ Texts — Customize the banner title, consent message, button labels, and link your privacy policy and legal notice pages.</li>
<li>🍪 Cookies — Manage cookie categories (required, statistics, marketing, preferences, and more). Run a browser-based quick scan to detect cookies on your site.</li>
<li>⚙️ Settings — Set consent validity (1–365 days) and define visibility rules to exclude specific paths from showing the banner.</li>
<li>🚀 Features — Enable Google Consent Mode v2 with configurable default consent states.</li>
<li>✅ Review — See a summary of your configuration and publish the banner.</li>
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<h4>Key Features</h4>
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<li>🆓 Works without an account — Full local banner setup with no external dependencies.</li>
<li>🎨 16 color themes — Pre-built themes plus full custom color control (18 color fields).</li>
<li>📐 6 banner positions — Popup (center), bottom bar, bottom-left, bottom-right, top bar, top fixed.</li>
<li>🧱 3 layouts — Classic, Block, Wireframe.</li>
<li>🔒 Script blocking — Third-party scripts are automatically blocked until the visitor gives consent.</li>
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<li>📊 Google Consent Mode v2 — Built-in support with configurable default consent states.</li>
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</ul>
<h4>Compliance & Standards</h4>
<ul>
<li>✅ IAB TCF 2.2 — Officially registered Consent Management Platform (CMP) with CMP ID 463.</li>
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</ul>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
📋 Use <code>[acm_cookie_list]</code> to display an organized list of all detected cookies on any page or post.
<h4>Cache Compatibility</h4>
⚡ Tested and compatible with WP Rocket, WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, Autoptimize, SG Optimizer, and WP Fastest Cache.
<h3>About AdSimple</h3>
AdSimple is a provider of privacy and consent management solutions based in Austria. As a registered Consent Management Platform (CMP) under the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) with CMP ID 463, AdSimple helps website owners comply with GDPR and ePrivacy regulations.
Learn more:
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<li><a href="https://www.adsimple.at/consent-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">Consent Manager</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.adsimple.de/impressum-generator/" rel="nofollow ugc">Impressum Generator DE</a></li>
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Add a GDPR-compliant cookie consent banner to your website. Certified CMP under IAB Europe TCF with CMP ID 463.

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