Limit Login Countries

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This plugin gives you the ability to limit WordPress admin logins based on the country the visitor’s IP address is located in. It uses Maxmind’s GeoIP database which comes in a free lite version.

You can choose between a white- and blacklist mode. In whitelist mode only visitors with IP addresses from the configured countries are allowed. In blacklist mode visitors with IPs from the configured countries are not allowed to login.

Translation

So far this plugin is available in English and German. If you are interested to translate the plugin to your language, use the included POT file with a programm like PoEdit and get in touch.

Development

This plugin is developed by Dirk Weise as a pet project on GitHub. You are welcome to file an issue or send a pull request.

Credits

• Kudos go out to the guys over at Maxmind for providing a lite version of their GeoIP database for free.
• Same to Konstantin Kovshenin who has written a great tutorial on the WordPress Settings API which helped me a lot while cleaning up the plugin for the public.
• Give big hands to sudar for his toolset for deploying WordPress plugins from GitHub. A must have, when developing WordPress plugins on GitHub.
• Last but not least I send a thank you note to Gabriel Oliveira on whose work this plugin’s banner image is based.