Custom Blocking Pages

  • Resolved mattinventive

    (@mattinventive)


    3 years, 9 months ago

    Hey!

    I saw a bunch of prior posts on this all locked so wanted to chip in…

    I’m looking for a way to completely customise the WordFence blocking pages via a template/code in the theme so it’s not removed by an update.

    I saw mentions that they will discus with devs, any news on this?

    Would be really professional to be able to customise the block pages as I get calls asking why website editors have been blocked from their own site.

    Edit: I’m aware that we can very slightly add custom text, but I’m talking about giving the dev full control of the blocking page via templates files or hooks.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by mattinventive.
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  • Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    3 years, 9 months ago

    hi @mattinventive

    As you are already aware, the only way that you can customize block pages is by adding a custom message using the option Custom text shown on block pages found in the Brute Force Protection section on the All Options page.

    It is important for site visitors and site administrators to know why someone is blocked so it can be resolved quickly and easily.

    Thread Starter mattinventive

    (@mattinventive)

    3 years, 7 months ago

    Hey Phil,

    Yes it is important to know why someone has been blocked, what I’m asking for isn’t to completely remove this, just to give us almost a template page to whitelabel the page a bit.

    For the average jo, users will not understand why they’ve been blocked with the current Wordfence block screen (from the phonecalls I’ve had in the past).

    What I would love to do is to add the website’s branding into the Block Page + customise the page to say something along the lines of “Our firewall has blocked you, please contact X to find out why, or view below”, and the below would be the usual Wordfence block page.

    Essentially a custom template, similar to say 404.php when developing a theme to handle 404 errors.

    Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    3 years, 7 months ago

    Hi @mattinventive

    Thank you for the update.

    I have added your feedback to the feature request for this as we have had many requests for this over the years but the only option you currently have in the plugin currently is as outlined in my previous reply.

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