swaptify

<p>This plugin integrates WordPress with Swaptify’s hosted personalization software. Swaptify’s free plan, “Nano,” allows you to perform 1000 instances of personalized “swaps” every month. Pricing is usage-based with full control over your monthly budget and swap limit.</p>
<p>Swaptify’s personalization engine allows for flicker-free dynamic content, event-tracking, analytics, influential content reports, and — most importantly — easy portability to new website designs and infrastructures.</p>
<h3>What Does Swaptify Do?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Build personalized segments of content that “swap” based on rules and visitor types.</li>
<li>Customize your user journey with relevant, contextual content at every stage of the purchase cycle.</li>
<li>Set up content experiments, and analyze your most influential content using a statical approach that is faster and more effective than A/B tests.</li>
<li>Use Swaptify personalization and analytics to improve conversion rates by making continual improvements to your user experience.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why Choose Swaptify?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Intuitive swap builder that works with classic editor, Gutenberg, and any page builder that generates and accepts shortcodes, e.g. Elementor, WP Bakery, Divi, and more.</li>
<li>Hosted infrastructure allows your configurations and data to survive major website changes.</li>
<li>Flicker-free content display. This might seem like a small thing, but when you play with other content personalization tools, you’ll quickly understand why this is a big deal.</li>
<li>Easy visitor type triggers on page load, element-click, or custom JavaScript.</li>
<li>Easy conversion tracking that can hook into existing Google Tag Manager setup or run independently.</li>
<li>Best-in-class Analytics system and Reports to analyze the influence of every swap that leads to a conversion.</li>
<li>Demonstrated lift in customer conversion rates by an average of 50%.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How Does it Work?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create a content segment using the WordPress plugin.</li>
<li>Fill in your swappable content, optionally assigning each swap to a visitor type.</li>
<li>Paste the segment shortcode into your page builder wherever you want your swaps to show.</li>
<li>Set up your content display rules on the Swaptify website.</li>
<li>OPTIONAL: Create visitor type triggers to analyze user behavior and deduce what type of customer they are, and then power your swaps accordingly.</li>
<li>OPTIONAL: Set up conversion event tracking for page views, element clicks, form submissions, and any other detectable behavior. This will allow you to analyze your most influential content.</li>
<li>OPTIONAL: Set your maximum billing tier on the Swaptify website to control your costs and scale your usage based on success metrics.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Setting Visitor Types</h3>
<p>Visitor types can be set explicitly, with the customer selecting their own use case, or they can be set implicitly based on the visitors’ behavior. Currently, Swaptify only sets one visitor type at a time. This is in order to accurately break down conversion rates by visitor type.</p>
<p>To show dynamic content from a range of customer-selected preferences, use a cookie to set their content preferences and Swaptify’s cookie rules to control your swaps.</p>
<h3>Available Rule Conditions</h3>
<ul>
<li>First Time Visitor</li>
<li>Returning Visitor</li>
<li>Time Since Last Visit</li>
<li>Page Visited (any session)</li>
<li>Cookie Value</li>
<li>Date</li>
<li>Day of Week</li>
<li>Location</li>
<li>Referrer URL</li>
<li>Page Visit (this session)</li>
<li>Session Length</li>
<li>User Agent</li>
<li>Page URL</li>
<li>URL Parameters</li>
</ul>
<p>Note: When a Rule is triggered, it overrides the visitor type.</p>
<h3>Analytics and Reports</h3>
<p>Conversion events can be triggered via click, page view, or custom JavaScript with our easy integration tools. The JavaScript conversion tag can be used inside your existing Tag Manager setup and fire based on existing triggers. Once conversion events are flowing, Swaptify’s analytics reports will deduce your most influential content. Please note that in order to attribute conversions to content, Swaptify’s data model is built differently than Google Analytics. When a conversion is triggered, Swaptify resets the session so that it can attribute that conversion to the content that was seen leading up to it. This means that your data will often not match GA4. Swaptify’s data model also contains browser validation, which tends to exclude more robot traffic than GA4, but if you want to include that traffic to compare metrics across Swaptify and GA4, you can turn off the browser validation feature.</p>
<h3>Getting Started Video Guide</h3>
<p>Visit <a href="https://swaptify.com/getting-started/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://swaptify.com/getting-started/</a> to watch a video of the Swaptify set up process from start to finish.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>The Swaptify Plugin connects to the Swaptify API to send usage data and return content. The information passed to the Swaptify API includes visitor IP address and page URL. This information is stored with Swaptify and used when analyzing visitor activity from page to page.</p>
<p>All data passed and stored to Swaptify falls under the Swaptify <a href="https://swaptify.com/terms-and-conditions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://swaptify.com/terms-and-conditions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms and Conditions</a></p>


Swaptify

Cost-effective website personalization for perfected user experience and dramatically more conversions.

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<p>iQ Block Country is a plugin that allows you to limit access to your website content. You can either allow or disallow visitors from defined countries to (parts of) your content.</p>
<p>For instance if you have content that should be restricted to a limited set of countries you can do so.<br />
If you want to block rogue countries that cause issues like for instance hack attempts, spamming of your comments etc you can block them as well.</p>
<p>Do you want secure your WordPress Admin backend site to only your country? Entirely possible! You can even block all countries and only allow your ip address.</p>
<p>And even if you block a country you can still allow certain visitors by putting their ip address on the allow list just like you can allow a country but put ip addresses on the block list from that country.</p>
<p>You can show blocked visitors a message which you can style by using CSS or you can redirect them to a page within your WordPress site. Or you can redirect the visitors to an external website.</p>
<p>You can (dis)allow visitors to blog articles, blog categories or pages or all content.</p>
<p>Stop visitors from doing harmful things on your WordPress site or limit the countries that can access your blog. Add an additional layer of security to your WordPress site.</p>
<p>This plugin uses the GeoLite database from Maxmind. It has a 99.5% accuracy so that is pretty good for a free database. If you need higher accuracy you can buy a license from MaxMind directly.<br />
If you cannot or do not want to download the GeoIP database from Maxmind you can use the GeoIP API website available on https://webence.net/<br />
If you want to use the GeoLite database from Maxmind you will have to download the GeoIP database from MaxMind directly and upload it to your site.<br />
The WordPress license does not allow this plugin to download the MaxMind Geo database for you.</p>
<p>Please be aware that although this plugin can help you greatly with reducing the number of ‘bad’ visitors on your website it is not fool proof and those who really want to visit your site may find a away.<br />
This is not a security issue but a simple fact of today. Nobody can guarantee you 100% security as it is a constant battle between the good guys and the bad guys.</p>
<p>If you are sure your webhosting or yourself does not use any form of caching or proxying we recommend setting the “Override IP information” on the Home tab to REMOTE_ADDR</p>
<p>Do you need help with this plugin? Please email support@webence.net.</p>
<h4>GDPR Information</h4>
<p>This plugin stores data about your visitors in your local WordPress database. The number of days this data is stores can be configured on the settings page. You can also disable logging any data.</p>
<p>Data which is stored of blocked visitors:</p>
<ul>
<li>IP Address</li>
<li>Date and time of the visit</li>
<li>URL that was requested</li>
<li>Country of the IP address</li>
<li>If the block happened on your backend or your frontend</li>
</ul>
<p>Data which is stored on non blocked visitors:</p>
<ul>
<li>Nothing</li>
</ul>
<p>If you allow tracking (yeah if you do!) you share some information with us. This is only the IP address of a blocked request on your backend. No other information is send and only the IP address is logged on our systems to gather how many times that IP address have attempted to login to a backend. We do not log which site was visited or which URL just only the IP address So we cannot lead an ip address back to a specific website or user. If an IP address is not blocked again within a month we will remove the IP address from the list.</p>
<p>If you use the GeoIP API service you send the IP address of your visitor to one of our servers. This IP Address is however in no way stored at our servers and only used to convert it to a country id.</p>
<h4>Using this plugin with a caching plugin</h4>
<p>Please note that many of the caching plugins are not compatible with this plugin. The nature of caching is that a dynamically build web page is cached into a static page.<br />
 If a visitor is blocked this plugin sends header data where it supplies info that the page should not be cached. Many plugins however disregard this info and cache the page or the redirect. Resulting in valid visitors receiving a message that they are blocked. This is not a malfunction of this plugin.</p>
<p>Disclaimer: No guarantees are made but after some light testing the following caching plugins seem to work: Comet Cache, WP Super Cache<br />
Plugins that do NOT work: W3 Total Cache, Hyper cache, WPRocket</p>
<p>Warning: Caching & Geo Blocking do not work well together.</p>
<p>In the best case scenario countries or IP’s you want to block get served a page from cache and when visiting non cached pages they get blocked. This is due to the fact when pages are served from cache the iQ Block Country plugin does not get started and can’t do it’s job.</p>
<p>If the caching plugin however ignores the caching headers you risk the chance that the block message gets cached and everyone gets to see they are blocked even the countries that you did not block.</p>
<p>If you’re fine with blocked countries getting served the page from cache then you’re fine using the iQ Block Country plugin.</p>
<p>If you’re not you should disable either the cache or the Geo Blocking. Or search for another solution outside WordPress (for instance by using the Varnish software) where you can GeoBlock at a caching level.</p>
<h3>GeoIP API</h3>
<p>For your convenience we offer a GeoIP API service. This API is not mandatory to use as you can always use the free MaxMind GeoIP Database.</p>
<p>If you do not want or can’t go through the hassle of updating your MaxMind GeoIP database we provide an API service to convert the IP address of your visitors to a country.</p>
<p>If you decide to purchase an GeoIP API Key via https://webence.net you’ll get an eMail with your API Key (License Key).<br />
Once you enter this key in your iQ Block Country settings your license key will be validated at our API service and a the nearest API server to you will be chosen. To do this your website will contact all API servers once to request<br />
an empty file.</p>
<p>Once you use the API service the IP address of your visitors and your API key are send to one of the API servers and converted to a country. The plugin checks if the visitor should be blocked based on that country or not.</p>
<p>What is logged on our end?<br />
* Upon validation of your license key your request will be logged in our webserver logs. (This will be the IP address of your webserver).<br />
* Upon checking an IP address of your visitor this IP address is only used to convert it to the country it belongs to and is not logged. We have no way to link a visitors IP address to your website.<br />
  What is logged is your API Key and the Website URL making the request.</p>
<p>If you decide to purchase the GeoIP API key your chosen payment account will be charged by on a time basis. This subscription will not renew itself unless you subscribed to our service prior to September 2024.</p>
<p>Privacy policy regarding this service specific can be found here: https://webence.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Privacy-Policy-Webence-API.pdf</p>
<h3>MaxMind Database Usage</h3>
<p>This plugin uses the Free version of the MaxMind GeoIP2 Country Database. You can also use the paid version but will have to make sure it is uploaded to the same location with the filename of Free database.</p>
<p>MaxMind Terms of Use: https://www.maxmind.com/en/terms-of-use<br />
MaxMind Privacy Policy: https://www.maxmind.com/en/privacy-policy</p>


iQ Block Country


I've used this on more than a dozen sites over the years, and the functionality has been fantastic. I do wish there was an easier way to keep the IPs current without FTP, but I'm a fan. Keep up the good work!


Multiple Sites - No Issues For Years

Allow or disallow visitors from certain countries accessing (parts of) your website

Swaptify vs iQ Block Country