<p>Comment blacklisting works well, but what if you actually want to stop someone from even <em>reading</em> your blog? This plugin will take care of that for you.</p>
<p>It uses .htaccess file modifications to deny access to your blog from particular IP addresses (Deny from) and then follows up with an ErrorDocument 403 redirect to a URL of your choice. It doesn’t hook into WordPress, which makes it a lot faster due to no database or PHP calls.</p>


WP-BlockYou

A plugin that can be used to block or "ban" users via their IP address from viewing your blog, and then redirecting them to a URL of your ch …

Lester Chan

<p>It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referrer url that tries to visit you blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. There will be statistics recorded on how many times they attempt to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-ban" title="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-ban" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-ban</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/i18n/" title="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/i18n/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/i18n/</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Plugin icon by <a href="http://fontawesome.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Dave Gandy</a> from <a href="http://www.flaticon.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Flaticon</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<ul>
<li>I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Upgrading</h3>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate <code>WP-Ban</code> Plugin</li>
<li>Open <code>wp-content/plugins</code> Folder</li>
<li>Put/Overwrite: <code>Folder: wp-ban</code></li>
<li>Activate <code>WP-Ban</code> Plugin</li>
</ol>


WP-Ban

Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referrer url from visiting your WordPress's blog.

WP-BlockYou vs WP-Ban