IP Ban

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 67% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ moonyell

   6.7y ago

   Hope this plugin may keep updating.

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2. ★★★★★ wp_ntnguy

   8.9y ago

   I previously rated this plugin as 1 star because it locked me out of my own website. It turns out, it was because I was on the wrong Wi-Fi network. Now that I got it to work, I am giving it 5 stars. A simple and lightweight plugin and it is exactly what I was looking for to ban IP addresses. This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by wp_ntnguy. This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by wp_ntnguy.

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3. ★★★★★ stevedemo1

   9.1y ago

   Locked me out of my site, I had to FTP in and delete the plugin. Everything looks fine until you log out then BAM it blocked me. It may have worked at one time but it doesn’t work now.

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4. ★★★★★ idmesspass

   10.6y ago

   Good work team! It is exactly what i needed and you made a great job with it! Thank you!

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5. ★★★★★ Redneval

   10.9y ago

   The simple ip ban is purely simple. Very easy to understand. You just type the ip you want to ban and that very ip get banned. No criteria, filters or anything complicated. You just need something like limit-login-attempts-like widget or tool or whatever to find those suspicious ip. Then you type those ip to block them from attempting to login your site again.

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6. ★★★★★ lolblaster

   12.2y ago

   Works as expected and yet so simple to use but unfortunately there is no option to show a certain message to the banned user other than redirect that user to a site of your choice – OR show him a blank page.

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7. ★★★★★ artmaug

   12.7y ago

   The plugin works perfectly, helped me in a situation with a malicious user. Congratulations to the developer and please keep up the great work.

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8. ★★★★★ Den999

   13.0y ago

   does not work and does not block by IP

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.3.0 [Test] WordPress 4.7 [Fix] Plugin may not ban well on all hosting providers and on wide ranges of IP (like 125.80.0.0 125.87.255.255), due to the fact that ip2long can return negative values in some cases. (Reported by F 1.3.0
2. — Version 1.2.6 [Test] WordPress 4.3.2 [Test] WordPress 4.3.1 [Test] WordPress 4.3.0 [Test] WordPress 4.2.1 1.2.6
3. — Version 1.2.5 Fix: Warning: Missing argument 2 for wp_kses() error message (2 posts) – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-missing-argument-2-for-wp_kses-error-message 1.2.5
4. — Version 1.2.4 Add CSRF protection and sanitize user input [Test] WordPress 4.0.1 1.2.4
5. — Version 1.2.3 [Test] WordPress 4.0 1.2.3
6. — Version 1.2.2 [Test] WordPress 3.9.1 1.2.2

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. High · 8.8 IP Ban <= 1.2.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2014-12-12 CVE-2014-9413 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.2.3 Patched in 1.2.4

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-02-11 3K+ → 2K+ down after 168 days in tier
2. 2025-08-27 2K+ → 3K+ up after 167 days in tier
3. 2025-03-13 3K+ → 2K+ down after 161 days in tier
4. 2024-10-03 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in tier
5. 2024-10-02 3K+ → 4K+ up after 2 days in tier
6. 2024-09-30 4K+ → 3K+ down after 165 days in tier
7. 2024-04-18 5K+ → 4K+ down after 37 days in tier
8. 2024-03-12 4K+ → 5K+ up after 23 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) 200+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags C
• Botfaqtor Code 40+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C
• C Chinese Comment Spam Protection 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• HighPots Spam Protection — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• Antispam Bee 700K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A

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IP Ban: 2K+ active installs, 4.0★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/simple-ip-ban