WP-Ban

Description

It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referrer url that tries to visit you blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. There will be statistics recorded on how many times they attempt to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too.

Development

• https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-ban

Translations

• https://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/i18n/

Credits

• Plugin icon by Dave Gandy from Flaticon

Donations

• I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.

Upgrading

1. Deactivate WP-Ban Plugin
2. Open wp-content/plugins Folder
3. Put/Overwrite: Folder: wp-ban
4. Activate WP-Ban Plugin

Screenshots

Installation

1. Open wp-content/plugins Folder
2. Put: Folder: wp-ban
3. Activate WP-Ban Plugin
4. Go to WP-Admin -> Settings -> Ban to configure the plugin

FAQ

N/A

Reviews

Can’t get it to do anything

hugrat October 3, 2020

Probably one of those ban plugins that don’t work if you do not have the exact default wordpress login. Bummer..

nice tool

kapaemtarik April 20, 2020

I have been searching for a tool to get rid of robot users and their advertising comments at my site’s comment section. This extension worked. It successfully blocked 48 entry from 8 different ip adress within one day. Thanks for providing it

It works!

luckyjo January 30, 2017

Love your hardwork!

Doesn’t work, for whatever reason

jonrolph December 13, 2016

For whatever reasons, I cannot get this plugin to work. I’ve tried banning both an entire IP range, as well as each IP within that range and I am still receiving visitor reports stating that my site is receiving visitors from that range.

Maybe it works, but definitely slows everything down

d-phrag September 3, 2016

Not sure if this actually works, but it slowed my admin operations to a very annoying speed. I would rather de-install this one. Sorry

website broke on update.

wexler September 3, 2016

Ended up having to remove the plugin since the website broke as a result of a flaw in the most recent update.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

Version 1.69.1

• NEW: Fixed XSS

Version 1.69

• NEW: Bump WordPress 4.7
• FIXED: Notices

Version 1.68

• NEW: Use translate.www.ads-software.com to translate the plugin
• NEW: Use HTML DOCTYPE
• FIXED: Remove get_language_attributes()

Version 1.67

• FIXED: Notices

Version 1.66

• FIXED: Cannot redeclare get_language_attributes()

Version 1.65

• NEW: Supports WordPress Multisite Network Activation
• NEW: Uses native WordPress uninstall.php

Version 1.64

• NEW: Added a new ban option ‘reverse proxy’ to allow user to choose whether to check against HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header for IP. Props Tom Adams at dxw. This fixes CVE-2014-6230

Version 1.63

• FIXED: Notices

Version 1.62 (12-03-2013)

• FIXED: Use a different modifier for preg_match() and use preg_quote() to escape regex

Version 1.61 (11-03-2013)

• FIXED: Replace ereg() with preg_match()

Version 1.60 (23-05-2012)

• NEW: AJAX Preview Of Current Banned Message
• NEW: Added nonce To Form
• FIXED: Don’t Process Ban If Any Of The Conditions Are Empty

Version 1.50 (01-06-2009)

• NEW: Added “Your User Agent” Details
• NEW: Uses jQuery Framework
• FIXED: Uses $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] With plugin_basename(FILE) Instead Of Just $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]

Version 1.40 (12-12-2008)

• NEW: Works With WordPress 2.7 Only
• NEW: Changed Ban Admin Setting Location To ‘WP-Admin -> Settings -> Ban’
• NEW: Right To Left Language Support by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
• NEW: Called ban_textdomain() In ban_init() by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
• NEW: Use language_attributes() To Get Attributes Of HTML Tag For Default Template by Kambiz R. Khojasteh

Version 1.31 (16-07-2008)

• NEW: Works With WordPress 2.6
• FIXED: Do Not Ban If IP is “unknown”

Version 1.30 (01-06-2008)

• NEW: Uses /wp-ban/ Folder Instead Of /ban/
• NEW: Uses wp-ban.php Instead Of ban.php
• NEW: Uses number_format_i18n()
• NEW: IPs Listed In Ban Stats Is Now Sorted Numerically
• NEW: Banned By User Agents (By: Jorge Garcia de Bustos)
• FIXED: “unknown” IPs (By: Jorge Garcia de Bustos)

Version 1.20 (01-10-2007)

• NEW: Ability To Uninstall WP-Ban
• NEW: Moved Ban Options From ban.php To ban-options.php

Version 1.11 (01-06-2007

• NEW: Banned By Referer URL
• NEW: Ability To Exclude Specific IPs From Being Banned
• NEW: Added Template Variables For User Attempts Count And Total Attempts Count
• FIXED: Suppress gethostbyaddr() Error

Version 1.10 (01-02-2007)

• NEW: Works For WordPress 2.1 Only
• NEW: Move ban.php To ban Folder
• NEW: Localize WP-Ban
• NEW: Added Ban Attempts Statistics In ‘WP-Admin -> Manage -> Ban’
• NEW: Move Ban Tab To ‘WP-Admin -> Manage’
• NEW: Added Toggle All Checkboxes
• FIXED: Main Administrator Of The Site Cannot Be Banned

Version 1.00 (02-01-2007)

• NEW: Initial Release