Version 1.4.0 delivers a redesigned admin experience and makes existing state or region controls easier to configure with the IP Location Block Cloud provider.
Highlights
- Redesigned settings: Simple view focuses on common location rules, while Advanced view provides detailed control over validation targets, responses, providers, privacy, and diagnostics.
- Improved state or region controls: Search and manage US states and equivalent administrative areas in other countries with the IP Location Block Cloud provider.
- Better provider setup: Connection status, quota details, provider capabilities, and account actions are now clearer and easier to manage.
- Modern bot protection: Use curated presets for search engines, social previews, AI crawlers, and aggressive SEO bots, or manage individual rules.
- Improved visibility: Redesigned statistics, validation logs, IP search, and diagnostics make configuration and blocked traffic easier to understand.
- More reliable internals: The plugin now uses PSR-4 loading and scoped dependencies, with broad fixes across providers, caching, databases, filesystem handling, and compatibility.
Compatibility
- Requires WordPress 6.5 or newer and PHP 8.1 or newer.
- The redesigned admin requires WordPress 6.6 or newer. WordPress 6.5 continues to use the Classic interface.
- Existing settings and legacy global classes remain compatible throughout the 1.x release series.
See the getting started guide and state or region rules for the recommended setup.