mrbrightside1984

Hey Rick, thanks for the reply. I did not think you changed a ton in those updates that would affect its functionality, but it may be what you said here “1.5.2 is not generally recommended to use as it broke the cache check “. I did notice from looking at scans the phenomenon you were describing as many IPs were being checked multiple times. Maybe, when the Cache issue was fixed a plug-in that would interfere with Cacheing started preventing the blocker from working.

My login page is a customized version of the wordpress one. I used a plugin to do this: “Admin Custom Login” with a bunch of custom CSS. It was working fine in version 1.5.2, so I don’t think it is this plugin. I had another login page before going this route, but since my theme wasn’t working with the blocker, I went with the default wordpress login page and customized it. I also used this plugin to re-route the login page: WPS Hide Login.

So I’m guessing there is another plugin likely interfering now. I guess I’ll go through a process of elimination to figure it out. This is the plugin that I most suspect of being a potential culprit: Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster. However, it could be anything I guess.
Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks!

After further test, I have concluded their are no plugin conflicts. I disabled all plugins on my site other than the VPN / proxy blocker one. I added a few sites thinking it would block them, but it still did not block them with no other plugins running.

Here is my plugin setup:
https://gyazo.com/233a50d9fe422e0584a4d8dcfe8a5b54

It still is correctly blocking wp-login.php which I actually have hidden to be:
https://faucetgamers.com/login

Other than that, it doesn’t block any other page. Maybe it is a conflict with my site’s theme? I’m using one called ControlPC. Not sure how I would test that. I don’t think I am going to change my theme at this point though, but maybe there is some WordPress setting that is blocking it.

I have determined it wasn’t Jetpack that is preventing it from working.

It was bouncing back to login because I mistakenly had “Login” listed as Custom Blocked Pages (I misunderstood what list blocked pages verses became the destination).

I have yet to find out what plugin if stopping it from working on all the other pages however. It works well on wp-login.php at least.
However, I at least want to get it to work on the registration page, as people can register and actually do everything on my site without ever officially logging in. So the proxy blocker is useless until they log out, since no other pages seem to be working at this time in blocking.

I’ll keep you posted if I find anything significant out on which plugin is interfering with the blocker.

Thanks for the thoughts! I tried disabling Captcha and did not have any success.

https://gyazo.com/a614a52d0d45267f097c89f556c9fe3b

I think it is because the Ultimate Member login does not trigger the 2FA textarea to be displayed and hence enters in a null value for it. I could probably alter the Ultimate Member code to force it to request, but that would likely be complicated.
I wonder if Ultimate Member Pro has some setting that Ultimate Member does not.

I spent a bit of time toying with the idea of just using the wp-login.php (maybe change the url of it). I customized it today. It may be simpler in the long run.
https://gyazo.com/adf2aaece3def0bb2e065400be610064

Your plugin for one site is really reasonably priced! I am still considering on purchasing it. Wordfence has basically the same options as you for free except they don’t have the “frontend” easy access settings and shortcodes that yours does.

Have a good sabbath :)!

Hey, thank you for the thoughts and suggestions!

The good news is that I did get it to work. I first noticed it working after I turned off a Jetpack setting. I think your plugin does conflict with Jetpack, as I had trouble reactivating Jetpack after I shut off the entire plugin for test purposes.

It also appears to be working on register and login. However, it does not block those pages directly, but rather blocks them from submitting the forms i.e. logging in or registering.

I first noticed it working actually when I was messing around with https://faucetgamers.com/wp-login.php I was suddenly unable to access this and it bounced me back to the https://faucetgamers.com/login

Is it a default setting for this Proxy & VPN blocker to scan this page or is this because I have “Login” enabled to be scanned, which I thought was in reference to my Ultimate Member login. I think I am going to not use the Ultimate Member Login, as it is not very easy to set up 2FA on it.

It also blocked my normal IP address, which I am not sure why either 1.) Sensitivity setting was set to high (I cranked it up to 25 days yesterday) or 2.) It detected I was messing around with Opera’s VPN yesterday. Which one do you think is the scenario?

I lowered the sensitivity down to 7 days, but it still flags my IP (probably because it was flagged earlier). I guess I will just have to whitelist it.

?? Thank you for the help. I appreciate your quick response.

Is there something I need to do to configure the plugin to work with Ultimate Member Pro?
For instance, if you go to:
https://faucetgamers.com/account/login

Try Username : dummy and password: password
It never gives me the option to enter 2FA and just says
“Error: The one-time password (TFA code) you entered was incorrect.”

Wow! That was such a simple fix. It worked like a charm. Well done Tobias!
Keep up the good work here. I appreciate how well you answer everyone about your plug-in. It’s a great help.