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iQ Block Country 20.0K installs · 3.9
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-100.0%momentum 54.2weakness 21/27pain/praise

Pain still appears around support, bugs despite praise for quality, value.

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complaint After Upgrade to 1.2.3 page not loading

After Upgrade to 1.2.3 page not loading: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · After Upgrade to 1.2.3 page not loading After upgrading iQ Block Country to 1.2.23, all my pages shows: “There has been a critical error on this website.” after some reloads (F5) it sometimes work, after disabling the Plugin, everything is back to normal, please fix it. complaint Site crashed when plugin last updated

Site crashed when plugin last updated: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Site crashed when plugin last updated I have deleted the old files and reinstalled the plugin but no luck. complaint no support

no support: users show security, bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · no support It does not work and nobody answer. complaint The iQ Block Country plugin is using an incompatible version of the MaxMind GeoI

The iQ Block Country plugin is using an incompatible version of the MaxMind GeoI: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · The iQ Block Country plugin is using an incompatible version of the MaxMind GeoI The iQ Block Country plugin is using an incompatible version of the MaxMind GeoIP2 PHP library . complaint Scam!!!

Scam!!!: users show performance, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · You get the plugin free from wordpress site and then what? complaint Errors on Save

Errors on Save: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Mr Blocker · Errors on Save Hello, When trying to save the updated country list I get these warnings and errors. complaint Had to uninstall

Had to uninstall: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Had to uninstall I had to uninstall the latest version of the plugin (1.2.23) as it was causing crash of my WordPress site. mixed PHP requirements

PHP requirements: users show security, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · PHP requirements So it seems that now we need already PHP8.1? complaint Doesn’t block *anything*

A security blocking plugin fails to block any countries even when configured to block all countries.

iQ Block Country · Even if I ask to block ALL countries, nothing at all is blocked complaint Never received API

Never received API: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Never received API I payed for the API through the plugin and PayPal, the merchant (Pascal) received payment, but I didn’t receive the API. complaint Causes Errors with Sitemaps

Causes Errors with Sitemaps: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Causes Errors with Sitemaps This plugin has destoyed my Google Search Ranking, as well as our Services we offer, by causing an error to create a Sitemap, stoping crawling efforts on both bing and google. mixed ‘site updates crashing

‘site updates crashing: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · ‘site updates crashing Hello. mixed Plugin doesn’t block many countries on my prod site

After years of good use, iQ Block Country now fails to block several configured countries on production while staging still works.

iQ Block Country · it no longer blocks users from many countries complaint PHP Fatal error after update.

iQ Block Country version 1.2.25 broke a site on older PHP by using str_contains, forcing the user to downgrade until version 1.2.26 fixed it.

iQ Block Country · After the website auto updated to version 1.2.25, it has the following error complaint Critical Security Bypass on wp-login.php due to undefined $pagenow (PHP 8.x)

On some PHP 8 sites, an undefined variable can bypass country blocking on wp-login.php, and the maintainer plans to include the defensive check.

iQ Block Country · allowing unauthorized access from blocked countries praise Wow! Awesome app!

Wow! Awesome app!: users show security, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · I followed the installation docs, signed up for the database (FREE) put it in the directory, allowed only the US and US outlying countries and Shazam! praise Great Plugin

Great Plugin: users show security, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Great Plugin This is the best plugin. praise I tried 3 other blockers and none worked until I tried iQ Block Country.

I tried 3 other blockers and none worked until I tried iQ Block Country.: users show security, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Those that say it didn’t work most likely installed it in the wrong location as I did at first. neutral Site crash after update

Site crash after update: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Site crash after update Ran the latest update an got critical error site crash Immediately renamed plugin to xxx.old to get site back Ran the latest update an got critical error site crash Immediately renamed plugin to xxx.old to get site back Yes sorry about that, 1.2.23 should fix that issue of the missing files. praise Perfect solution

Perfect solution: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Perfect solution For a website with only dutch clients this plugin is a perfect security. complaint Free but not really

Free but not really: users show performance, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Free but not really Install free but you need a file to make it work, that’s only 15 euros. complaint Conflict between Plug-In & SEO

Conflict between Plug-In & SEO: users show compatibility, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Conflict between Plug-In & SEO Hi, the plug-in does its work correctly and in efficient way. question Can’t activate plugin without being blocked.

Can’t activate plugin without being blocked.: users show compatibility, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · I tried to install it on a site today and as soon as I activate it, it blocks me and redirects me to Google.com. complaint Not blocking!

Not blocking!: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · I’m using your plugin IQ Block Country I’m trying to block a the frontend website https://www.caseificiogennari.com/ from all countries except 4 (Austria, Finland, Denmark and Portugal), but it does not work. complaint PHP Deprecate

PHP Deprecate: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · PHP Deprecate Can you please fix that? complaint Shame it’s so complicated

Shame it’s so complicated: users show performance, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Shame it’s so complicated This is a very complicated plug-in to install as you need to upload the country database to the back end of your server. complaint Does not work!!

Does not work!!: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Does not work!! mixed Issues with LiteSpeed Cache PlugIn?

Issues with LiteSpeed Cache PlugIn?: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Issues with LiteSpeed Cache PlugIn? question Caching Message won’t stay hidden

Caching Message won’t stay hidden: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · The issue I’m having is the caching alert in the admin will not stay hidden I’m using Caching on my site and everything is working fine. mixed is blocking robots.txt

is blocking robots.txt: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Suggest to use Opera Browser free VPN to test out settings. complaint I can’t access front-end with IP on allow list

I can’t access front-end with IP on allow list: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · I appreciate any help, The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hello, IQ Block Country team, I blocked access to the front-end of my website but even when I add the IP to the allow list I still can’t access the front-end. complaint Google Tag Manager – No access for Google Tags service

Google Tag Manager – No access for Google Tags service: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Google Tag Manager – No access for Google Tags service Hi, Great plugin by the way, I now use it on several sites and I’m always happy with the results, thank you very much! complaint After Wordfence?

After Wordfence?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Blocking only sometimes: IP Adress 183.87.217.222 belongs to India: is shown in Last blocked visits but IP Adress 154.216.16.154 belongs to Hong Kong: is NOT shown in Last blocked visits Both IP addresses are shown in Wordfence Life Traffic Log. complaint Google ads waring!

Google ads waring!: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Mr Blocker · and after google remove all of my ads, i got so stress, could you tell me where this are located and why still hey can not login my site from irland ? complaint Sugestion for GeoLite2

Sugestion for GeoLite2: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Sugestion for GeoLite2 Thanks for the plugin, it was the simplest I found for the purpose of blocking external access by region. mixed Works…

Works…: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

iQ Block Country · Works… The URL to redirect to: doesn’t seem to work. praise Effective!

Effective!: users show bugs, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Had to block a country, because of their spiders overloading my WordPress database. question Unable to locate geoIP database

IQ Block Country cannot locate the GeoLite database even though the file appears to be in the uploads directory with correct permissions.

iQ Block Country · When I activate the plugin it says that it cannot find the database at that path. praise Just what I was looking for!

Just what I was looking for!: users show performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Perfect! praise Great & easy to use and setup!

Great & easy to use and setup!: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

iQ Block Country · Great & easy to use and setup!