Still getting login attemps from blocked IPs

Hi Cowgirl,

Did you block them on the frontend or the backend? (or both..)

I blocked the IPs and countries from the backend only.

Hi,

Okay, well as long as you have selected “Block visitors from visiting the backend (administrator) of your website:” on the backend tab you should be good.

However if you use other plugins or statistics software they might be catched first because the plugin is loaded in WordPress before iQ Block Country or your statistics software may say otherwise.

As long as the statistics tab of iQ Block Country says it is blocking attempts then you’re really good. These blocks can also be viewed in your webservers raw logfiles by a HTTP 403 code instead of a HTTP code 200.

Is there any way to tell what order plug-ins get used/called? We use both iQ Block Country (on our backend) and iThemes security to keep the miscreants out of our web site.

I regularly get notifications from iThemes that it blocked a login attempt and the IP is from a country that iQ Block Country would/should have blocked from accessing. I would like be able to tell that these IPs are actually getting blocked (and that both plug-ins are working well together).

(Since I was overlooking the Logging tab until 30 seconds ago the only info I was getting from iQ Block Country is that it has blocked 52 visitors. Now that I have the block logs I can compare against the notifications to see make sure iQ Block Country blocked all the IPs that the other plug-in reports)