WP-Ban

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

• https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-ban

Translations

• http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/i18n/

Credits

• Plugin icon by Dave Gandy from Flaticon

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

1. Deactivate WP-Ban Plugin
2. Open wp-content/plugins Folder
3. Put/Overwrite: Folder: wp-ban
4. Activate WP-Ban Plugin

N/A

Version 1.69.1

• NEW: Fixed XSS

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

• FIXED: Notices

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

• FIXED: Notices

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)

• NEW: Initial Release

1. Open wp-content/plugins Folder
2. Put: Folder: wp-ban
3. Activate WP-Ban Plugin
4. Go to WP-Admin -> Settings -> Ban to configure the plugin