Dirk Weise

<p>This plugin gives you the ability to limit WordPress admin logins based on the country the visitor’s IP address is located in. It uses Maxmind’s GeoIP database which comes in a free lite version.</p>
<p>You can choose between a white- and blacklist mode. In whitelist mode only visitors with IP addresses from the configured countries are allowed. In blacklist mode visitors with IPs from the configured countries are not allowed to login.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>So far this plugin is available in English and German. If you are interested to translate the plugin to your language, use the included POT file with a programm like <a href="http://www.poedit.net/index.php" rel="nofollow ugc">PoEdit</a> and get in touch.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>This plugin is developed by <a href="http://www.dirk-weise.de" rel="nofollow ugc">Dirk Weise</a> as a pet project on <a href="https://github.com/wedi/limit-login-countries" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>. You are welcome to <a href="https://github.com/wedi/limit-login-countries/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">file an issue</a> or send a pull request.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
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<li>Kudos go out to the guys over at <a href="https://www.maxmind.com/" rel="nofollow ugc"><em>Maxmind</em></a> for providing a lite version of their GeoIP database for free.</li>
<li>Same to <a href="http://kovshenin.com/" rel="nofollow ugc"><em>Konstantin Kovshenin</em></a> who has written a <a href="http://kovshenin.com/2012/the-wordpress-settings-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">great tutorial on the WordPress Settings API</a> which helped me a lot while cleaning up the plugin for the public.</li>
<li>Give big hands to <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com" rel="nofollow ugc">sudar</a> for his <a href="https://github.com/sudar/wp-plugin-in-github" rel="nofollow ugc">toolset for deploying WordPress plugins from GitHub</a>. A must have, when developing WordPress plugins on GitHub.</li>
<li>Last but not least I send a thank you note to <a href="http://think0.deviantart.com/" rel="nofollow ugc"><em>Gabriel Oliveira</em></a> on whose work this plugin’s banner image is based.</li>
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Limit Login Countries

This plugin gives you the ability to limit WordPress admin logins based on the country the visitor's IP address is located in.

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