Sed Lex

<p>Block IP addresses which are suspicious and try to post on your blog spam comments.</p>
<p>This plugin need that you create an account on the Honey Pot Project (https://www.projecthoneypot.org, free api) or that you install the Spam Captcha plugin.</p>
<p>In addition, if you want to geolocate the spammers your may create an account on (http://ipinfodb.com/, free api). Thus, you may display a world map with the concentration of spammers.</p>
<p>Spammers may be blocked either by PHP based restrictions (i.e. WordPress generates a 403 page for such identified users) or by Apache based restriction (using Deny from in .htaccess file).</p>
<p>The Apache restriction is far more efficient when hundreds of hosts sent you spams in few minutes.</p>
<h4>Multisite – WordPress MU</h4>
<h4>Localization</h4>
<ul>
<li>Afrikaans (South Africa) translation provided by SedLex, JanvanNiekerk</li>
<li>English (United States), default language</li>
<li>Japanese (Japan) translation provided by OsamuKudo</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features of the framework</h4>
<p>This plugin uses the SL framework. This framework eases the creation of new plugins by providing tools and frames (see dev-toolbox plugin for more info).</p>
<p>You may easily translate the text of the plugin and submit it to the developer, send a feedback, or choose the location of the plugin in the admin panel.</p>
<p>Have fun !</p>


Automatic Ban IP

Block IP addresses which are suspicious and try to post on your blog spam comments.

Lester Chan

<p>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.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-ban" title="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-ban" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-ban</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/i18n/" title="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/i18n/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/i18n/</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Plugin icon by <a href="http://fontawesome.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Dave Gandy</a> from <a href="http://www.flaticon.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Flaticon</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Upgrading</h3>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate <code>WP-Ban</code> Plugin</li>
<li>Open <code>wp-content/plugins</code> Folder</li>
<li>Put/Overwrite: <code>Folder: wp-ban</code></li>
<li>Activate <code>WP-Ban</code> Plugin</li>
</ol>


WP-Ban

Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referrer url from visiting your WordPress's blog.

Automatic Ban IP vs WP-Ban