At the “Validation target settings”, you can enable the option, “Block by country” for each target as a basic configuration. Additionally, “Prevent Zero-day Exploit” can be enabled as an extended option. This document helps you to configure those options to fit for your site.
Normally, you can add code snippets for your custom functions into functions.php which is placed in your theme or child theme folder. But in case you select “mu-plugins” (ip-location-block-mu.php) as “Validation timing” in “Validation rule settings” section, your code for this plugin in functions.php would be failed to work as you expected. This restriction is […]
This plugin must have read/write permission at the certain places outside of the plugin folder. But in some cases, you might find the error message related to the permission because of your server’s security configurations. When you meet those cases, you have to configure something related to the WordPress file system by your own hand. […]
Does this plugin work properly? Absolutely, YES. However, there are some reasons why users have such an impression. 1. Wordfence Live Traffic Sometimes, a Wordfence Security user who found some accesses in its Live Traffic view would claim that: Hey, this plugin seems to block nothing! But please do not get ahead of yourself, there’s […]
Even if you encounter blocking, please feel relax. There’re some ways to resolve it. When and why am I blocked? Well, actually there’re several rules to validate your requests in this plugin. Each of them is very simple but combination of them is very powerful to protect your sites. But sometimes, those are too strong […]
Emergent Functionality When you are locked out by misfortune, this feature inhibits the blocking behavior of this plugin. Download IP Location Block, unzip and open the ip-location-block.php with an appropriate editor. You can find the “Emergent Functionality” code section near the bottom of the file as follows: <?php /*----------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Emergent Functionality *----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /** * […]
If you see the message “Sorry, your request can not be accepted” on your login page like the picture bellow, please follow the steps: Rename ip-location-block to ip-location-block- in the plugin directory (/wp-content/plugins/) on your server using FTP or the file manager like cPanel. This makes the plugin deactivated. Login to your site as an […]
Be relax at first contact! Just after the installation and activation of IP Location Block, you’ll see the “Welcome” message and will be prompt to confirm the “Matching rule” at “Validation rule settings”. But it’s better to keep yourself in a relaxed state for a several seconds, becase a background process of downloading Geo-IP databases […]
