Wordpress - blocking countries?

[gregmcc]

I've got a small wordpress/woocommerce site that I'd like to start blocking certain countries on - China/Russia etc.

Anyone know of any good free plugins. I can use IP tables but this seems like a mission to keep up to date.
Also came across iQ block country plugin but gets mixed reviews and hasn't had a update in months.

What the best tool for the job?

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

Cloudflare > Firewall > Firewall rules > block country. I believe the free account allows 5 rules.

Blocking all CIDR ranges from China and Russia will consume quite a bit of resources if you do it network level, that is if your site gets hammered with requests.

 

[gregmcc]

Cloudflare > Firewall > Firewall rules > block country. I believe the free account allows 5 rules.

Blocking all CIDR ranges from China and Russia will consume quite a bit of resources if you do it network level, that is if your site gets hammered with requests.

Thanks, hadn't even thought about Cloudfare. Will look into this.

 

[JustAsk]

I've got a small wordpress/woocommerce site that I'd like to start blocking certain countries on - China/Russia etc.

Anyone know of any good free plugins. I can use IP tables but this seems like a mission to keep up to date.
Also came across iQ block country plugin but gets mixed reviews and hasn't had a update in months.

What the best tool for the job?

In the woo settings: general - selling locations

• Sell to all countries.
• Sell to all, except
• Sell to specific countries

Won't block them to your site, but much more reliable as they can't order.

 

[gregmcc]

Thanks but have now setup cloudflare as it gives you a lot more protection even as a free site and you get the benefits of CDN caching.
FW rules are simple to setup. You can have 5 rules but can group the countries in a single rule using 'and'

 

[MtraX]

Wordfence would also be a simple solution for that, but agree with Cloudflare.