WP-Ban Plugin
Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referrer url from visiting your WordPress's blog.
It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referrer url that tries to visit you blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. There will be statistics recorded on how many times they attempt to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too.
Development
Translations
Credits
Donations
- I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.
Upgrading
- Deactivate
WP-Ban
Plugin - Open
wp-content/plugins
Folder - Put/Overwrite:
Folder: wp-ban
- Activate
WP-Ban
Plugin
Installation
- Open
wp-content/plugins
Folder - Put:
Folder: wp-ban
- Activate
WP-Ban
Plugin - Go to
WP-Admin -> Settings -> Ban
to configure the plugin
Screenshots
Admin - Ban
Admin - Ban
Admin - Ban
Ban - Message
FAQ
Changelog
Version 1.69.1
Version 1.69
- NEW: Bump WordPress 4.7
- FIXED: Notices
Version 1.68
- NEW: Use translate.wordpress.org to translate the plugin
- NEW: Use HTML DOCTYPE
- FIXED: Remove get_language_attributes()
Version 1.67
Version 1.66
- FIXED: Cannot redeclare get_language_attributes()
Version 1.65
- NEW: Supports WordPress Multisite Network Activation
- NEW: Uses native WordPress uninstall.php
Version 1.64
- NEW: Added a new ban option ‘reverse proxy’ to allow user to choose whether to check against HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header for IP. Props Tom Adams at dxw. This fixes CVE-2014-6230
Version 1.63
Version 1.62 (12-03-2013)
- FIXED: Use a different modifier for preg_match() and use preg_quote() to escape regex
Version 1.61 (11-03-2013)
- FIXED: Replace ereg() with preg_match()
Version 1.60 (23-05-2012)
- NEW: AJAX Preview Of Current Banned Message
- NEW: Added nonce To Form
- FIXED: Don’t Process Ban If Any Of The Conditions Are Empty
Version 1.50 (01-06-2009)
- NEW: Added “Your User Agent” Details
- NEW: Uses jQuery Framework
- FIXED: Uses $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] With plugin_basename(FILE) Instead Of Just $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]
Version 1.40 (12-12-2008)
- NEW: Works With WordPress 2.7 Only
- NEW: Changed Ban Admin Setting Location To ‘WP-Admin -> Settings -> Ban’
- NEW: Right To Left Language Support by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
- NEW: Called ban_textdomain() In ban_init() by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
- NEW: Use language_attributes() To Get Attributes Of HTML Tag For Default Template by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
Version 1.31 (16-07-2008)
- NEW: Works With WordPress 2.6
- FIXED: Do Not Ban If IP is “unknown”
Version 1.30 (01-06-2008)
- NEW: Uses /wp-ban/ Folder Instead Of /ban/
- NEW: Uses wp-ban.php Instead Of ban.php
- NEW: Uses number_format_i18n()
- NEW: IPs Listed In Ban Stats Is Now Sorted Numerically
- NEW: Banned By User Agents (By: Jorge Garcia de Bustos)
- FIXED: “unknown” IPs (By: Jorge Garcia de Bustos)
Version 1.20 (01-10-2007)
- NEW: Ability To Uninstall WP-Ban
- NEW: Moved Ban Options From ban.php To ban-options.php
Version 1.11 (01-06-2007
- NEW: Banned By Referer URL
- NEW: Ability To Exclude Specific IPs From Being Banned
- NEW: Added Template Variables For User Attempts Count And Total Attempts Count
- FIXED: Suppress gethostbyaddr() Error
Version 1.10 (01-02-2007)
- NEW: Works For WordPress 2.1 Only
- NEW: Move ban.php To ban Folder
- NEW: Localize WP-Ban
- NEW: Added Ban Attempts Statistics In ‘WP-Admin -> Manage -> Ban’
- NEW: Move Ban Tab To ‘WP-Admin -> Manage’
- NEW: Added Toggle All Checkboxes
- FIXED: Main Administrator Of The Site Cannot Be Banned
Version 1.00 (02-01-2007)