Country blocking (Pro) stops visitors whose IP maps to countries you select. Useful when you see abuse concentrated in regions you do not serve.
SEO note: Be careful blocking the United States. Many Googlebot crawls come from US IPs. Blocking the USA can hurt search indexing.
Steps
- Open WP Security Ninja → Firewall.
- Find Block visits from these countries.
- Search or scroll to select countries. Remove a country with the x next to its name.
- Select All / Select None can speed bulk changes.
- Save settings.
How it works
Visitor IPs are looked up with IP2Location LITE data on your site. Matching countries are blocked. Country rules use the same visitor IP as bans and logging, so if lookups look wrong behind Cloudflare or a proxy, set Visitor IP detection first.
You can also show a message or redirect blocked visitors.
This product includes IP2Location LITE data available from https://lite.ip2location.com.
Limitations
VPNs and proxies can make a visitor appear to be in another country. Country blocking is one layer, combine with firewall rules, login protection, and security tests.
