It allows you to configure either whitelist or blacklist to specify the countires, CIDR for range of IP addresses and AS number for group of IP networks...
In order to prevent hacking through the login form and XML-RPC by brute-force and the reverse-brute-force attacks, the number of login attempts will be limited IP address even from the permitted countries...
The 2xx code will lead to your top page, the 3xx code will redirect to Black Hole Server, the 4xx code will lead to WordPress error page, and the 5xx will pretend server error...
It enables to record the pare of IP address and country code into the cache on database to minimize the impact on site speed...
You can add IP address to X-Forwarded-For header to emulate the access behind the proxy.
In other words, standalone file that is unrelated to WordPress can't be validated by this plugin even if it's in WordPress install directory..
Force to load WP core options, this plugin will try to configure.htaccess in your wp-content plugins and wp-content themes order to protect your site against the malicous attacks to OMG plugins and themes..
Sorry for the frequent update, but it should be fixed before the next release. * Bug fix Fix the issue that limit of login attempts took precedence over authority of admin. * Improvement Suppress.
Now, the library for Maxmind and IP2Location have become independent of this plugin and you can put them outside this plugin order to cut the above useless process.
Improvement Add alternative functions of BCMath extension to avoid PHP Fatal error Call to undefined IP2Location php when IPv6 is specified..
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