Plugin not working after WP update

  • I updated WordPress to the current 5.1.1 version last Friday. Since then iQ Block Country has not been working. I’m using the latest version of the plug-in and the GeoIP2 database is installed. I know it’s not working because I have Google Analytics on the site and am suddenly getting lots of users from outside the UK. I tried blocking my own country from the front end using country and then my IP address, but I can still see the website. Tried clearing the cache and it made no difference.

    Is there anything you can suggest I try? I noticed that the plug-in hasn’t been officially tested with WP 5.1.1 so could there be an unknown issue?

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  • Plugin Author Pascal

    (@iqpascal)

    Hi,

    No it’s been tested with 5.1.1 but you mention you cleared the cache. So I assume you use a caching plugin.

    If you use a caching plugin (or other caching solution) WordPress is not started for those pages in your cache and the iQ Block Country plugin needs to be started by WordPress before it can do it’s job.

    Ergo if your page is in cache and a visitor from a blocked country visits your site it will get the page from cache. It just needs 1 visitor for the page to get cached after all so between you clearing the cache and you trying to access your own page that visitor might just have passed.

    I definitely would not recommend caching and using a geo blocking solution unless you have a geoblocking solution integrated in your caching (but this can only be done by for instance by running varnish and some commercial caching solution providers also provide this kind of service).

    Thread Starter debforest

    (@debforest)

    Thanks for your reply, however no that’s not what I mean about the cache. I do not have any caching plugin. I just meant that after I changed the blocker to block my own country in the front end, I cleared my IE11 browser cache just in case the reason I could still see the front end of the site was due to the site being cached automatically by my browser.

    Plugin Author Pascal

    (@iqpascal)

    Ah sorry then I misunderstood what you were writing.

    If you still have issues you can send an email to the support mail adress listed in the plugin with:

    – a export of your iQ Block Country settings
    – Screenprint/pdf/copy of the info on the tools tab
    – Output of the ip lookup of your own IP address on the tools tab.

    @debforest, if you are hosting with HostGator then you might want to read through all the posts on this thread from other people like myself who are hosting with HostGator. It could be the source of your problems too:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/iq-blocker-stopped-working

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