Feature suggestion: blocking IP addresses

  • In your fantastic plugin, on the settings page:

    /wp-admin/options-general.php?

    under the options “login form” and “admin area”, if we have the option “block by country” enabled, it would be great to have the option to have that particular IP blocked entirely for a specified length of time if they keep trying to access those areas as they’re obviously looking for an exploit.

    For example, if I have the “admin area” blocked by country, I would like to configure, “block ip address for x-days if they try to access admin area y-times over z-time period”.

    So if ip address 1.2.3.4 is trying to access my admin area 20 times over 24 hours from a country not in the whitelist, IPGeoBlock could block 1.2.3.4 entirely from my site for 2 days so they can’t access anything.

    It won’t prevent everything, but will definitely slow down and be an annoyance for hackers.

    Thank you.

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  • Before you get too excited about ANY WP plugin, check to see when it was last updated and what, if any, support issues there are.

    This plugin hasn’t been updated in 6 months and the developer does not respond to inquiries.

    A number of us users have tried to reach him/her through various contact points to no avail.

    An unsupported plugin is a security risk – no matter how great it is and no matter how badly we want it.

    Yes, it makes no sense to not have at least sold this plugin to a different developer or hand it over to someone who would continue carrying the torch. There’s clearly a huge investment of time put into to it that doesn’t make sense to just let it go.

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