Website Frontend Still Accessible

  • Resolved redseo

    (@redseo)


    9 months ago

    Hi, IQ Block Country team,

    I have installed, activated and configured your plugin for a client’s site that has been receiving huge amounts of spam lately. I’ve tested the plugin using a VPN and can still access the site from countries not included in the whitelist. Can you provide any advice on how I can ensure effective implementation of the plugin?

    Best regards,

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Pascal

    (@iqpascal)

    Hi,

    This is most likely because you use a form of caching.

    Caching and blocking are pretty much mutually exclusive as when a page is served from cache WordPress (and therefore iQ Block Country) is not fired up and thus cannot block the request. 

    If you require both caching & geo blocking you need to be looking at a caching solution that can do the geo blocking at the cache level. For instance Cloudflare or Varnish can do this.

    Thread Starter redseo

    (@redseo)

    Hi, Pascal,

    Thank you for your very quick reply.

    It appears I need to either block returning visitors despite the browser cache stored on their local machine or block spam coming through my contact forms and click-to-call functionality on a country-to-country basis.

    I will look into this further.

    Best regards,

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