sandipganava

Ganava Location Access Control is a premium-grade, lightweight security tool designed to give you total control over who visits your WordPress site. Whether you need to block specific regions for compliance, redirect users to localized pages, or protect your store from high-risk countries, this plugin provides the tools you need with a modern, intuitive interface.
Built with performance in mind, it integrates natively with Cloudflare Geolocation headers for zero-latency detection, falling back to reliable GeoIP services when needed.
<h3>Key Benefits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Precision Targeting: Don’t just block countries; target specific regions or cities for granular control.</li>
<li>Modern UI: Manage your rules using a fast, React-powered administration dashboard.</li>
<li>SEO Friendly: Built-in bot detection ensures that search engines like Google and Bing can still crawl your site while malicious traffic is blocked.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Ready: Restrict product availability based on the shopper’s location.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Rule Management: Create unlimited geo rules with priority ordering.</li>
<li>Targeting Modes:
<ul>
<li>Target specific pages, posts, or categories.</li>
<li>Entire site protection (Global Blocking).</li>
<li>URL path matching with wildcard support.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Geographic Criteria: Block or allow based on Country, Region, or City.</li>
<li>Connection Filtering: Detect and block VPN, Proxy, or Tor traffic (requires API key).</li>
<li>Multiple Actions:
<ul>
<li>Block: Show a 403 Access Denied status.</li>
<li>Redirect: Send users to a custom URL (perfect for localized marketing).</li>
<li>Custom Message: Show a beautiful HTML message or a dedicated WordPress page.</li>
</ul>
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<li>Audit Logging: Track every block event with detailed visitor data (IP, Country, Time).</li>
<li>Developer Friendly: Hooks and filters to extend functionality.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin utilizes external services to provide accurate geolocation data and threat detection capabilities (VPN/Proxy/Tor detection). These services are only queried when necessary (e.g. if the user’s IP address cannot be resolved locally or via Cloudflare headers).
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ProxyCheck.io
<ul>
<li>Purpose: Used for high-accuracy geolocation and detecting whether a visitor is using a VPN, Proxy, or Tor network.</li>
<li>Data Sent: The visitor’s IP address is sent to ProxyCheck.io upon request processing.</li>
<li>Links: <a href="https://proxycheck.io/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://proxycheck.io/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
ip-api.com
<ul>
<li>Purpose: Used as a fallback service for basic geolocation (Country, Region, City) if ProxyCheck.io is unavailable or unconfigured.</li>
<li>Data Sent: The visitor’s IP address is sent to ip-api.com.</li>
<li>Links: <a href="https://ip-api.com/docs/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://ip-api.com/docs/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>

Ganava Location Access Control

Control your site access globally with precision. Block or redirect visitors based on their country, region, or city using Cloudflare headers or high- …

maxhaesslein

Block AI Crawlers directly via their IP addresses or user-agents. The blocking happens directly on the server, and not via robots.txt, so it should also block crawlers that do not respect the robots.txt.
This plugin may not work if you use a caching plugin that hooks before the ‘plugins_loaded’ hook. I may add compatibility in a future update.
After installation you need to activate blocking on the plugin settings page. The default settings should suffice, but you can add additional IP addresses, user agents or even JSON endpoints with lists of ip ranges. 
The visitor ip address server variable can also be customized, if your site is behind a reverse proxy and REMOTE_ADDR is not available.
If you want to delete all data the plugin saves in your database, activate the ‘delete all plugin data on uninstall’ option before uninstalling.

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