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Wonderful Geoblocking Countries

Name: Wonderful Geoblocking Countries
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: wonderfulplugins

Blocks site access, login, or registration for visitors from selected countries or VPN services, with a custom message per area.

Wonderful Geoblocking Countries ranks #25,856 among WordPress.org plugins with 20+ active installations, is #328 of 1,003 in the Maps & Location category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Oct 5, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v1.2.1 Current Version v1.2.1

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 05 Oct, 2026

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.2.1
Last Updated: Oct 05, 2026
Requires WP: 6.2+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: wonderfulplugins

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Wonderful Geoblocking Countries

The IP2Location LITE database is free but published under its own license that requires every user to register for their own copy. The download with your personal token takes less than a minute and enables automatic monthly updates.

Nothing — no visitor is blocked. The plugin shows an admin notice until a database is installed, and visitors whose country cannot be determined are always let through.

Not while you are logged in: administrators are always exempt from all three rules. Only the login rule can affect you when you are logged out and your own country is on its list — the settings page warns you about exactly that. My site runs behind Cloudflare or another proxy — the detected country is wrong. Behind a proxy, REMOTE_ADDR is the proxy's address, not the visitor's. Use the wonderful_geoblocking_countries_client_ip filter to supply the real client IP from a header you trust, or short-circuit the lookup entirely with wonderful_geoblocking_countries_pre_country_code (e.g. return the value of Cloudflare's CF-IPCountry header).

The site access rule runs on every frontend request, including feeds and the REST API. The WordPress admin (including admin-ajax) and wp-login.php are excluded from it.

Tick VPN list under Databases and download it, then tick VPN in every area where VPN users should be blocked. A visitor whose IP lies in a range of a known VPN provider is then blocked — regardless of the country and even in allow-list mode (otherwise a VPN server in an allowed country would be a way in). The list combines the X4BNet list, the server lists of the big providers (NordVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Mullvad, PIA and others) and the complete networks of pure VPN operators, and is updated daily. iCloud Private Relay is never counted as a VPN. No free list catches every VPN, though: small or self-hosted VPNs, Tor and residential proxies are usually not included. Logged-in administrators are never blocked, VPN or not.

We tried it: the free IP2Proxy LITE edition only lists open public proxies — no VPN servers and no Tor exits (those are reserved for the paid edition) — and is more than 1 GB in size. The combined VPN list takes about 120 KB on your server and actually recognises VPN providers.

Yes. Once the VPN list is installed: $is_vpn = apply_filters( 'wonderful_geoblocking_countries_is_vpn_ip', null, $ip ); It returns true or false, and the default (null) while the VPN list is disabled or not installed.

No. Country lookups run locally against the downloaded database file. The only external request is the database download itself, which you trigger with your own token.