Maintenance 16/1001519d since update
Active installs
4,000
Downloads
42,292
Reviews
26
Age
12.5y
Tagssecurityblockcountry
Plugin info
Total downloads: 42,292
Active installs: 4,000
Total reviews: 26
Average rating: 4.1
Support threads opened: 1
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 11/4/2021 (1519 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 7/3/2013 (12 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.3
Tested up to WordPress version: 5.8.6
Minimum PHP version: f
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Possibly abandoned • Last updated 1519 days ago • Support resolved 0% • 26 reviews
16/100
Is Admin Block Country abandoned?
Possibly abandoned (last update 1519 days ago).
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.3
Tested up to: 5.8.6
Requires PHP: f
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Description
Easy to use plugin, that blocks access to your wp-admin area by country. Uses geoip-api-php as the library to work out the visitor’s country.
Installation
1) Install WordPress 5.8.2 or higher
2) Download the latest from:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-block-country
3) Login to WordPress admin, click on Plugins / Add New / Upload, then upload the zip file you just downloaded.
4) Activate the plugin.
Frequently Asked Questions
No FAQ available
Review feed
Alejandro Aranda
Good choice
It would be great to be able to redirect to a page 404
Screenshots
No screenshots available
Changelog
7.1.4
- Fixed bug caused by closing vulnerabilities
7.1.3
- Fixed up security vulnerabilities
7.1.2
- Fixed more bugs caused by debug=true
7.1.1
- Fixed more bugs caused by debug=true
7.1
- Fixed up errors from debug=true.
7.0
- Links up to GeoCity 2.0
6.3
- Fixed the IP services. Removed IP service list and set it to only use ipcountry.marketingmix.com.au.
6.2
- Fixed security issue which blocked requests to ipcountry.marketingmix.com.au.
6.1
- Improved code.
6.0
- I removed Who country service. You can now upload your own local ip database from maxmind. I’ve added in the instructions.
5.2
- New IP to country service – utrace. Example http://xml.utrace.de/?query=183.60.244.29
5.0
- Removed Tom M8te dependency.
4.3
- Fixed bug with Admin “Select All” checkbox. Played havac with service selector. Never noticed it before.
4.2
- Fixed bug with geoplugin.
4.1
- Added in ipcountry.marketingmix.com.au ip to country service which is a server that I own. I noticed that the existing 2 have failed atleast once.
4.0
- Tried Maxmind in version 3.0, but 2 of my clients couldn’t use it, so I’ve ditched it and now I use two external services: http://who.is, http://www.geoplugin.net.
3.0
- Uses another method for discovering the country of an ip address.
2.0
- Used a different method for discovering the country of an ip address. Seems to be less memory intensive.
1.0
- Initial Commit