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advanced-country-blocker

Advanced Country Blocker

An advanced security plugin that blocks website visitors by country, with additional features like blacklisting, logging blocked attempts, admin bypas …

blocking country geolocation ip-blocking security
34.5 Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org
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Proof Health

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59 / 107 rows with source links

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0 build-decision rows missing links

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0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
445 462 -3.7% 6.9K

Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.9
how to whitelist URLs

The user needs URL whitelisting so privacy policy pages can bypass country blocking and avoid Facebook disabling social login.

Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Proof Blocked card complete local listing and directory operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Without doing so, Facebook will deactivate the app, and social login using Facebook will no longer work.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.86
The problem of crawler bing and google

The blocker works well against attacks but blocks Google and Bing crawlers because it lacks bot-name or CIDR-style whitelisting.

Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Proof Blocked card complete local listing and directory operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Therefore, a loss of 35% of traffic is obtained.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.7
Redirect does not work

The user likes Advanced Country Blocker but says blocked visitors get too-many-redirects errors instead of being redirected to the configured URL.

Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Proof Blocked card complete local listing and directory operations Evidence linked to opportunity
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS” message in broken window – no redirect
neutral support · high severity · relevance 0.51
.htaccess

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

Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Proof Blocked card complete local listing and directory operations Evidence linked to opportunity
(Unlike some security plugins.) I’m just curious how it intercepts the traffic?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92
Перевод есть но все равно на английском.

Перевод есть но все равно на английском.: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Proof Blocked card complete local listing and directory operations Evidence linked to opportunity
В папке /wp-content/languages/plugins/ при установке появляются файлы перевода advanced-country-blocker-ru_RU.mo , advanced-country-blocker-ru_RU.ro , advanced-country-blocker-ru_RU.l10n.php.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92
Does this plugin work with Wordfence?

Does this plugin work with Wordfence?: users show compatibility, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Proof Blocked card complete local listing and directory operations Evidence linked to opportunity
From .htaccess: … # END WordPress # Wordfence WAF <IfModule LiteSpeed> php_value auto_prepend_file ‘/home/rebbe/domains/rsmh-jkpg.se/public_html/wordfence-waf.php’ </IfModule> <IfModule lsapi_module> php_value auto_prepend_file ‘/home/rebbe/domains/rsmh-jkpg.se/public_html/wordfence-waf.php’ </IfModule> <Files “.user.ini”> <IfModule mod_authz_core.c> Require
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Is this the right way to block unfriendly countries?

Is this the right way to block unfriendly countries?: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Proof Blocked card complete local listing and directory operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Documentation page shows another PrintScreen :-/ The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Documentation page shows another PrintScreen :-/ The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hey Andrzej, how can i help you with this?
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Not working to 100%

Not working to 100%: users show performance, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Proof Blocked card complete local listing and directory operations Evidence linked to opportunity
But not all: I can see it in Wordfence: https://rsmh-jkpg.se/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Country-blocked.png The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] 2815 visitors blocked!
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Very fishy

Very fishy: users show pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Proof Blocked card complete local listing and directory operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Very fishy I’m blocking Brasil: but Sátiro Dias, Brazil left / and visited /v-g-andra-pa-facebook 10/16/2025 1:51:26 PM (17 minutes ago) IP: 186.226.183.162 Hostname: dedicado-186-226-183-162.ivitelecom.net.br Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 The page I need help with: [ log in to
question support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Delete database logs

Delete database logs: users show bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Proof Blocked card complete local listing and directory operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Delete database logs Hello is there a way to delete the database log?

Competitor Context

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Block Comment Spam Bots praise owner · intel 48.3 · weakness 37.1
praise owner
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test spam lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
Spam IP Blocker praise owner · intel 46.9 · weakness 37.1
praise owner
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) security compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test spam lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
Simple Site Lockdown praise owner · intel 40.9 · weakness 34.0
praise owner
stale update history 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1

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Collected Signals

20 shown from 24 collected
question REPLACEMENT OF PLUGIN IN LIBRARY support · 2026-05-11T21:29:29+00:00 · low severity · geolocation

The user cannot find the specific Advanced Country Blocker plugin author they relied on and asks for it to return to the plugin directory.

Evidence: I FIND IT IS NO LONGER IN THE WORDPRESS LIBRARY
plugin availability local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
source plugin
complaint how to whitelist URLs support · 2026-03-22T14:10:35+00:00 · high severity · geolocation

The user needs URL whitelisting so privacy policy pages can bypass country blocking and avoid Facebook disabling social login.

Evidence: Without doing so, Facebook will deactivate the app, and social login using Facebook will no longer work.
missing feature URL whitelist rules local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
source plugin
mixed The problem of crawler bing and google support · 2026-03-11T14:39:12+00:00 · high severity · geolocation

The blocker works well against attacks but blocks Google and Bing crawlers because it lacks bot-name or CIDR-style whitelisting.

Evidence: Therefore, a loss of 35% of traffic is obtained.
missing feature security quality bot whitelist rules local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
source plugin
question PHP Notice with Live Monitor support · 2026-02-11T15:44:15+00:00 · low severity · geolocation

A user asks whether Live Monitor wpdb::prepare notices are a site conflict or something Advanced Country Blocker can fix.

Evidence: Live Monitor generates these notices: PHP Notice: Function wpdb::prepare was called incorrectly
bugs live monitor queries local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
source plugin
question bypass secret key is set to the insecure default support · 2026-02-11T07:00:21+00:00 · medium severity · geolocation

After an update, the plugin warned that the bypass secret key used an insecure default and support told the user to change it.

Evidence: Your bypass secret key is set to the insecure default value.
security setup bypass secret key local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
source plugin
mixed Redirect does not work support · 2026-01-31T17:02:52+00:00 · high severity · geolocation

The user likes Advanced Country Blocker but says blocked visitors get too-many-redirects errors instead of being redirected to the configured URL.

Evidence: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS” message in broken window – no redirect
bugs setup quality country block redirect local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
source plugin
complaint Перевод есть но все равно на английском. support · 2026-01-20T16:08:43+00:00 · medium severity · geolocation

Перевод есть но все равно на английском.: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: В папке /wp-content/languages/plugins/ при установке появляются файлы перевода advanced-country-blocker-ru_RU.mo , advanced-country-blocker-ru_RU.ro , advanced-country-blocker-ru_RU.l10n.php.
bugs compatibility support setup local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
source plugin
complaint The downloaded file does not appear to be a valid MaxMind database file. support · 2026-01-14T10:25:46+00:00 · medium severity · geolocation

After an update, the plugin rejected downloaded MaxMind database files until support released a quick fix in the latest version.

Evidence: The downloaded file does not appear to be a valid MaxMind database file.
bugs security MaxMind database download local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
source plugin
mixed The problem of localization support · 2025-10-21T07:18:23+00:00 · low severity · geolocation

Translated strings still do not appear in the plugin admin settings after multiple releases, although the user appreciates the developer's work.

Evidence: The plugin inside the admin panel – 0% of the lines translated
bugs missing feature support quality local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
source plugin
complaint Does this plugin work with Wordfence? support · 2025-10-19T08:12:20+00:00 · medium severity · geolocation

Does this plugin work with Wordfence?: users show compatibility, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: From .htaccess: … # END WordPress # Wordfence WAF <IfModule LiteSpeed> php_value auto_prepend_file ‘/home/rebbe/domains/rsmh-jkpg.se/public_html/wordfence-waf.php’ </IfModule> <IfModule lsapi_module> php_value auto_prepend_file ‘/home/rebbe/domains/rsmh-jkpg.se/public_html/wordfence-waf.php’ </IfModule> <Files “.user.ini”> <IfModule mod_authz_core.c> Require
compatibility performance support setup local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
source plugin
mixed Very fishy support · 2025-10-16T12:10:41+00:00 · medium severity · geolocation

Very fishy: users show pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Very fishy I’m blocking Brasil: but Sátiro Dias, Brazil left / and visited /v-g-andra-pa-facebook 10/16/2025 1:51:26 PM (17 minutes ago) IP: 186.226.183.162 Hostname: dedicado-186-226-183-162.ivitelecom.net.br Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 The page I need help with: [ log in to
pricing support quality local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
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question One DB? support · 2025-10-16T11:57:53+00:00 · low severity · geolocation

A user managing 20 sites asks whether Advanced Country Blocker can share one GeoLite database instead of updating each site separately.

Evidence: do I need to place it in 20 sites and update 20 sites each month?
setup GeoLite database updates local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
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mixed Not working to 100% support · 2025-10-16T07:57:11+00:00 · medium severity · geolocation

Not working to 100%: users show performance, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: But not all: I can see it in Wordfence: https://rsmh-jkpg.se/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Country-blocked.png The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] 2815 visitors blocked!
performance support setup local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
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mixed Excellent work (5 stars) review · 2025-10-15T04:58:14+00:00 · low severity · geolocation

The reviewer praises Advanced Country Blocker but hopes future versions allow the interface to be localized into other languages.

Evidence: I hope that in the future he will implement the ability to localize the interface into other languages.
missing feature easy quality interface localization local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
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mixed Seems to work quite well (5 stars) review · 2025-10-10T21:39:02+00:00 · low severity · geolocation

The reviewer confirmed country blocking worked but wished blocked requests returned a different HTTP status than 403.

Evidence: it’s good to know this actually works, even if it throws a 403. Would rather see an http error 410 or 418
missing feature quality country blocking response local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
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mixed Export/Import support · 2025-10-06T20:09:49+00:00 · low severity · geolocation

Export/Import: users show support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Export/Import Export “Bad” Countries from one site and Import to onother would be very, very nice?
support migration value quality local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
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complaint Is this the right way to block unfriendly countries? support · 2025-10-06T09:10:24+00:00 · medium severity · geolocation

Is this the right way to block unfriendly countries?: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Documentation page shows another PrintScreen :-/ The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Documentation page shows another PrintScreen :-/ The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hey Andrzej, how can i help you with this?
support setup local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
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mixed Powerful blocker yet simple and lightweight (5 stars) review · 2025-08-01T14:06:38+00:00 · low severity · geolocation

A reviewer praises Advanced Country Blocker but asks for custom blocking messages and redirect URLs.

Evidence: I would suggest having an option to modify the blocking message and another to redirect to a custom URL.
missing feature easy performance quality local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
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neutral .htaccess support · 2025-06-29T18:47:31+00:00 · high severity · geolocation

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

Evidence: (Unlike some security plugins.) I’m just curious how it intercepts the traffic?
security local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
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praise Looks good so far (5 stars) review · 2025-06-19T15:47:08+00:00 · medium severity · geolocation

Looks good so far: users show performance, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Looks good so far I just installed this and it seems to be working quite well.
performance setup local listing and directory operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit geolocation submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
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