kernvy

That’s what I expected. All I needed want a brief glimpse of something, anything that shows me the size or shape or position choices. Of course I could spend my time experimenting with your plugin, but I don’t really have the time to play with settings to see what a variety of options might be. Sure, I’ve done that many time and will do it many more. But not right now. I expect to do that once I have an initial idea of what it might look like. Your advice means everyone interested has to do the same thing over and over. Not the best marketing mentality if you want people to use your plugin. It’s called “Removing barriers to entry.”

Got blocked from our own website today even though we’re in the only country it should accept.
Looks like the domain is REALLY gone from any indexing – maybe a bug blocking?
Guess we’ll go back to our previous solution for now.
Was really liking this plugin…

Double checking the search engines index setting. Definitely not selected.

Looks like there was a plugin update so that’s in place now.

Do you know if it has it passed the Wordfence guidelines for security? They’ve found almost 7,500 plugins that have anywhere from 1 up to 52 vulnerabilities the developers didn’t realize were issues.
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins?sortby=count&sort=desc
https://developer.www.ads-software.com/apis/security/

It’s shared hosting at DreamHost. I just thought strange that this situation/notice hasn’t come up before in over a decade of hosting there.

Is it possible to force-load the IP blocker before the page cache is loaded? Seems like that should take priority anyway since I don’t want the page cache to even function if the IP isn’t a country or language we do business with. The website itself is initially identified by the IP for the domain, right – not an individual page? I don’t understand why potential security issues seem to take a backseat to functionality. I find it hard to believe it can’t be programmed to function differently. Apparently no company wants to differentiate enough to take the lead on this.

Although I have IP@Location setup to block other countries, I noticed that Wordfence seems to be doing the blocking now based on the setting I put there as a backup.

I have free versions of Wordfence and IP2Location – both are EXCELLENT!

Are you saying that only one of those will actually block certain countries and I can’t control which is working and which is not?

If so, why do they change to which one does the blocking? Is it random? Is there timing involved? It seems like one would have to dominate over the other due to preferred loading or settings.

The hook can only be used once per visitor? Don’t the softwares run independently?

Sorry I don’t understand. It seems this isn’t an incompatible situation, just one that hasn’t been worked out between the softwares.