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The SDLC Country Block plugin lets you restrict access to individual posts and pages based on the visitor’s country, while keeping SEO bots and crawlers unblocked for safe indexing.
<h3>🔐 4 Layers of Country Detection</h3>
To ensure maximum compatibility, the plugin checks for the visitor’s country in this order: 
1. Cloudflare header (<code>CF-IPCountry</code>) 
2. Server GeoIP variables (if your hosting environment provides them) 
3. PHP GeoIP extension (<code>geoip_country_code_by_name</code>) 
4. Wordfence plugin (using Wordfence GEO detection)
⚠️ Note: At least one of these extensions or plugins must be enabled. If none are active, the plugin cannot detect visitor countries.
<h3>✨ Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Per-post/page multi-select of countries (full ISO list)</li>
<li>SEO-safe: bots/crawlers can bypass blocks</li>
<li>Choose action: redirect to endpoint (/blocked), redirect to custom URL, or 403</li>
<li>Customizable endpoint slug</li>
<li>Role-based bypass (e.g., admin, editor)</li>
<li>Optional admin-only debug banner</li>
<li>Proper sanitization, escaping, and nonces</li>
<li>Sets <code>Vary: CF-IPCountry</code> for cache correctness</li>
<li>Clean uninstall (removes options and post meta)</li>
</ul>
This plugin is maintained by <a href="https://sdlccorp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">SDLC CORP</a> — a Digital Transformation Company with expertise in: 
– WordPress Development 
– Shopify Solutions 
– Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning 
– Model Development and NLP (Natural Language Processing) 
– Enterprise-grade <a href="https://sdlccorp.com/ai-development-services/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Development Services</a>
By publishing this open-source plugin, SDLC CORP demonstrates its commitment to empowering developers and businesses with scalable AI-driven solutions and modern web technologies.
<h3>Requirements & Compatibility</h3>
For the plugin to work, at least one of the following extensions or plugins must be enabled on your server:
<ol>
<li>Cloudflare → Enable the IP Geolocation setting in your Cloudflare dashboard (adds the <code>CF-IPCountry</code> header).</li>
<li>Server GeoIP → Your hosting provider must support GeoIP (ask your host if they provide <code>GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE</code>).</li>
<li>PHP GeoIP Extension → Install and enable the PHP <code>geoip</code> extension on your server (may require server admin/hosting support).</li>
<li>Wordfence Plugin → Install the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/" rel="ugc">Wordfence Security plugin</a> and enable its country blocking/GeoIP feature.</li>
</ol>
➡️ At least one of these must be active. If none are available, the plugin cannot detect visitor countries.
<h3>Third-Party Compatibility</h3>
This plugin is designed to work with third-party services such as Cloudflare and Wordfence when available. 
SDLC Country Block is an independent plugin and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cloudflare or Wordfence.
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This plugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
A copy of the GPL v2 license is included in this package. You can also see <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</a>.
<h3>Trademark</h3>
“SDLC CORP” and the SDLC CORP logo are trademarks of SDLC CORP. 
The GPL license covers the plugin’s source code. It does not grant rights to use SDLC CORP’s trademarks or branding in modified versions in a way that suggests endorsement or affiliation without permission.

Country Access Control

Block access to selected posts/pages by visitor country, with SEO-safe bot bypass and customizable redirects.

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DUE TO PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES I AM NO LONGER ABLE TO DEVELOP OR SUPPORT THIS PLUGIN. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ADOPTING THIS PLUGIN SEE https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/take-over-an-existing-plugin/
Bonus also makes Cookie Notice work correctly with WPSC (whether using country/EU geolocation or not).
Allows WP Super Cache to display the correct page/widget content for a visitor’s country when you are using geo-location; solves problems like these reported on <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-super-cache-with-geo-targeting" rel="ugc">WordPress.Org</a> and <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21308405/geolocation-in-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">StackOverflow</a>.
A similar extension is available <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/country-caching-extension/" rel="ugc">for Comet Cache</a>.
This plugin builds an extension script that enables Super Cache to create separate snapshots (cache) for each page based on country location.
Separate snapshots can be restricted to specific countries. E.g. if you are based in the US but customize some content for Canadian or Mexican visitors, you can restrict separate caching to CA & MX visitors; and all other visitors will see the same cached (“US”) content.
You can also specify a single snapshot for a group of countries e.g. all European Union countries.
It works on both normal WordPress and Multisite (see FAQ) installations.
More info in <a href="http://wptest.means.us.com/geolocation-and-wp-super-cache-caching-by-page-visitor-country-instead-of-just-page/" rel="nofollow ugc">the user guide</a>
Identification of visitor country for caching
Via Cloudflare or Maxmind (when the plugin is first enabled it uploads GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com ). Cloudflare works with any PHP version, but Maxmind Geolite2 requires PHP 5.4 or later. It is also possible to connect a different GeoLocation sytem of your choice (see documentation).
If you use Cloudflare and have “switched on” their GeoLocation option ( see <a href="https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168236-What-does-CloudFlare-IP-Geolocation-do-" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare’s instructions</a> ) then it will be used to identify visitor country. If not, then the Maxmind Country Database will be used.
Updating (If not using Cloudflare for country) The installed Maxmind Country/IP data file will lose accuracy over time. To automate a monthly update of this file, install and enable the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-country-aware/" rel="ugc">Category Country Aware (CCA) plugin</a> (Country Caching and the Cataegory Country Aware (CCA) plugins use the same Maxmind data file in the same folder and the CCA plugin includes code for its update). The CCA plugin has many other features and functionality you may find useful. Alternatively you can manually update (FAQ below).
<h3>ADVICE</h3>
I don’t recommend you use ANY Caching plugin UNLESS you know how to use an FTP program (e.g. Filezilla). Caching plugins can cause “white screen” problems for some users. WP Super Cache is no different; when I checked the first page of its support forum it included 4 <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-broken-after-activate-wp-super-cache" rel="ugc">posts like this</a>. Sometimes the only solution is to manually delete files using FTP or OS command line. When deactivated/deleted via Dashboard->Plugins; the Country Caching plugin deletes its files, but in “white screen” situations you may have to resort to “manual” deletion – see FAQ for instructions.
<h3>License</h3>
This program is free software licensed under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License version 2</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation.
In particular please note the following:
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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