Do NOT use on sub-domains. Lol.

  • This plugin seemed to be working perfectly on another site so I was confused today when it wouldn’t block a frontend user test on a subdomain.

    I blocked France and CyberGhosted to my homepage and a sample page only to see that I am not blocked. So I blocked Canada (home country) and still managed to see the homepage and sample page.

    Suspecting that the plugin may not recognize subdomains I went to log in to my main domain and voila – I am blocked from the backend but not the frontend! And I hadn’t touched the plugin on the main domain, assuming that it is even installed there. If so…

    Off to my host to delete the plugin, before playing with the DB.

    One more thing. Please clarify the double-negative instructions, especially in the ‘block backend’ section, and don’t call the list a blocklist if the list is not already blocked. The x tells me that I can remove a country from the list, not that I can ADD it to a list of countries to block. Forget the x and just say ‘select the countries from this list that you want to block’. In my case I’d have preferred an option to select only the countries (mine) that I do NOT want to block. (Is there any reason to let SEs into the backend?)

    Furthermore, why even have to select a box to block countries from access if I am then going to have to select countries from a list? The beginning checkbox selection is redundant. The instructions may make a programmer happy but they are very unintuitive.

    I’ve been quite happy with this plugin in the past but now have to check where it may not be working.

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    (@editarionbnetnbca)

    To clarify; I don’t want to diss this plugin when my problems may have been self-inflicted. Perhaps the fact that I used to have multi-sites coded in the config file on the above site (for sub-domains) but removed the code due to problems with another plugin (while IQ block country was already installed), is what caused the current glitch with IQ Block Country. Currently, the sub-domain is enabled in my hosting account and not in the config file.

    I’d prefer to use the WP multi-site option for the obvious advantage of saving space but am hesitant to try it again.

    If the problem is of my own making I do not want to discourage anybody from using this plugin because it DID stop my other site from getting nefarious visitors as soon as I installed it.

    Also, apologies for putting this in the review section if there is a better place for it.

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