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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [iQ Block Country] IP range?htaccess is very resource unfriendly as it will read the htaccess file for each and every request. So also for the css files, javascript or any image for instance.
Database ip blocking can be a bit more efficient due to database caching (depending on your webhost configuration) and also because only actual content pages are matched against the ip ranges.
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In reply to: [iQ Block Country] IP range?I’ve got some code lined up for this so hopefully that will work as soon as applied.
If someone is up for testing the ip ranges once it is done I would be glad for any testing done 🙂
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In reply to: [iQ Block Country] IP range?Hi MTN,
No just not yet. Nice conversion site though. I will see what I can do for the next version.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [iQ Block Country] Does IQ Block Country plugin work with Cloudflare?I have not tested the plugin with cloudflare.
In this case best case scenario is that some people from Nigeria are shown the cached page at cloudflare and the blocked page is not cached by cloudflare. But as stated, I’ve not tested it.
I believe I’ve heard that there is some feature at cloudflare where they can block unwanted countries from the cached content (probably at a fee)
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In reply to: [iQ Block Country] Google Feed Issue with PluginGoogle Feed is not catched by any of the current search engines options. I’ve added this as option for a new version. So that should fix part of the problems addressed here.
I’ve not been able to reproduce the other issues.
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In reply to: [iQ Block Country] GeoLite database is going to be discontinuedThere is no current paid version. You can purchase an API key if you do not want or cannot update the databases yourself.
I will try to update the plugin to use the new database format somewhere in the next few months.
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In reply to: [iQ Block Country] Google Feed Issue with PluginHi,
I do not regularly check this forum. As it states on every page of the settings page of the plugin:
“If you need assistance with this plugin please send an email to [email protected]”
🙂
I will try to reproduce your situation.
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In reply to: [iQ Block Country] IP range?This indeed is not possible (yet). The official notation would be the CIDR notation so 192.168.2.0/24 but I doubt if many people will know this way of notation.
Working with other variations will leave many possibilities that need to be properly catched.
Hi,
No it’s not possible. Because it truly is not a good situation.
When a page in your cache needs to be refreshed and at that very moment a blocked visitor visits that page your block message will be cached and that cached blocked message will also be displayed to allowed visitors.
That’s not wanted behavior for a caching solution.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [iQ Block Country] Plugin not blocking AzerbaijanHi,
Google Analytics may have a different opinion on where a user is located then the MaxMind database.
What you perhaps can do is if you know the IP address of that visitors you look it up on the tools tab of the plugin settings page and it will show which country the MaxMind database thinks it belongs to.
Either way you also need to keep your MaxMind databases up to date.
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In reply to: [iQ Block Country] Locked me out of backend after modem resetYou can remove the option_name “blockcountry_blockbackend” from the wp_options table (table may be named differently depending on your settings).
The login again on the backend and setup the backend blocking again.
Either disable your caching plugin or disable frontend blocking. The warning is there for a reason and you are using a caching plugin that leads to issues when being used together with iQ Block Country.
So either disable blocking of visitors on the frontend tab of the iQ Block Country settings or disable the caching plugin.
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In reply to: [iQ Block Country] Google Feed engineI believe this should already be handled by allowing Google.
Perhaps you can help me to a raw access logfile where Googles comes by to index your pages?
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In reply to: [iQ Block Country] Locked me out of backend after modem resetHi,
You probably did not deactivate it via WordPress. In that case the configuration that is in the WordPress database was not removed and will be used again once you reinstall the plugin.
Probably the only way to resolve this is by changing the parameters in your database via for instance phpmyadmin.
No, it wil only prevent people accessing your website.