My country not recognized

  • The Plugin installed fine.
    I configured it to accept only logins from the UK (I’m based in the UK and am the only user on the site). This was confirmed on the ‘Country Restriction’ tab on the Plugin configuration page.

    When I tried to connect to https://johnblockley.com/wp-admin, access to the login panel was blocked. I renamed the Plugin’s directory and regained access without a problem but I can’t get the plugin to permit logins from the UK (or my IP address anyway!).

    As a workaround I set it to allow my (fixed) IP address, but would like to filter by country instead so that I can login from anywhere in the UK. An online lookup of my external IP address correctly identifies my ISP and my location as being in the UK.

    Charles

    Charles

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  • @booleanboy interestingly I’ve just had to troubleshoot why one of the admins on one of my client sites could not log in / kept getting redirected to the homepage rather than the wp-admin area.

    After troubleshooting the issue, I found it was this plugin causing the issue, so I disabled it via file explorer from the server’s file manager exactly as you did and have suggested they do not re-instate it. I came back here to see if others have had this problem. And I see that yes, it was the case.

    Interestingly, it seemed to work for some of the site admins, but not all.

    It led me to wonder if it’s a software security issue (on the client computer) or perhaps more likely it can happen based on the ISP you use, which is not correctly reporting (or hiding) the IP address to the website for privacy purposes?

    I have replicated the issue in the UK on a BT network, but if I remember correctly one the admins who it works for uses Sky broadband. It would be interesting to know if you also are on BT, or who your ISP is.

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