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<p>IP Vault lets you protect your WordPress backend – and any other part of your website – from non verified users.</p>
<p>IP Vault Firewall also preserves your server ressources and bandwidth by blocking hacking attempts before they reach your site.</p>
<h3>How does it work ?</h3>
<p>Requests to protected files and folders are redirected to the <em>Authentication Page</em>. IP Vault unlocks user’s IP addresses using a key<br />
that is emailed for authentication. Once users verify their account, they can access all restricted areas. Users are automatically verified on registration.</p>
<h3>What is protected ?</h3>
<p>Out-of-the box, IP Vault restricts access to <code>.php</code> and <code>.phtml</code> files, as well as <code>wp-admin</code> folder, which are frequently exploited by bad bots and hackers.<br />
You can choose which part of your site to protect. Need to make the whole website private ? No problem, just restrict access to <code>/</code>.</p>
<h3>The story behind this plugin</h3>
<p>In the past 20 years, I have been monitoring a few dozen client sites to prevent malicious access. I have also helped a great number of people to clean their website from malware.<br />
I noticed that even marginal WordPress sites or non-wordpress PHP based sites are constantly exposed to hacking attempts.</p>
<p>Almost all exploits I have seen work by either calling a vulnerable PHP script already on the server, by adding such a script or by injecting their own code into an existing script.</p>
<p>I have tried and tested quite a few security plugins. They can be quite complex to set up and to maintain. Some security plugins try to block access to vulnerable files by comparing requests to a blacklist.<br />
These tend to become quite large and need frequent updates to be efficient. Others use geo-blocking services to block requests from certain countries. However in my experience, hacking attempts can come from just about any location.</p>
<p>I thought there must be a better way using whitelists for verified users instead. And that’s how the idea for IP Vault was born.</p>
<h3>To Dos</h3>
<ul>
<li>add option to get auth code by SMS (requires users to register phone number)</li>
</ul>
<h3>I love this plugin. How can I contribute ?</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ip-vault-wp-firewall/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">Rate plugin</a> and leave feedback on WordPress.org</li>
<li>Help resolve questions in support forums</li>
<li>Help with translations</li>
<li><a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Y7VNAG4WC8YMC" rel="nofollow ugc">Donate</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Disclaimer</h3>
<p>This plugin uses the following <strong>3rd Party services</strong> :</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://ip-api.com" rel="nofollow ugc">ip-api.com</a> – used to offer insights into IP addresses, namely country and city information. <a href="https://ip-api.com/docs/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms and Policies</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.ipify.org" rel="nofollow ugc">ipify.org</a> – used to map IPv6 addresses to IPv4. <a href="https://geo.ipify.org/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms and Policies</a></p>
</li>
</ul>


Two-factor authentication (formerly IP Vault)

Protect your website against Brute Force Attacks and other malicious requests that have potential to jeopardise the website’s safety or hijacking your …

Marie Comet

<p>Lock Reusable Blocks in the editor to avoid unintentional global changes.<br />
Editing reusable blocks in posts is locked, and you have access to two actions when you select a reusable block in the editor:<br />
– Edit the reusable block (opens the block editing page in a new tab)<br />
– Convert to regular blocks (native action)</p>
<p>Options are availables in Settings > Writing screen to hide Edit and Convert reusable blocks buttons in block overlay.</p>


Lock Reusable Blocks

All plugins should be like this. Simple one job plugins that do one thing well. I follow this philosophy in my own plugins and it is good to see others doing the same.

Good plugin


This should be a feature of WP and not a plugin. It's really useful for building large sites and not having clients mess them up afterward due to the ability to edit useable blocks.


Should be a feature of WP and not a plugin


This plugin doesn't get enough attention. THIS is the way reusable blocks are supposed to work. Letting the user know what they are doing: editing the reusable block side wide, or just editing a single instance. Clean, simple, obvious. Couldn't be better!



I have been following the problems with reusable blocks for years now. On Github there seems to be a consensus that this issue is somehow resolved since block locking became a feature. But still, it is way too easy to accidentally edit reusable blocks in an unintended way, even with WP 6.2. Actually it used to be good when Gutenberg just released. Back then, reusable blocks where one of the few features that they completely nailed from the start. Why this was changed in such a bad way, is a complete mystery to me.



Thanks for writing this essential plugin. Hope it makes it into core!


Two-factor authentication (formerly IP Vault) vs Lock Reusable Blocks