WordPress plugin: WP-Ban
December 22, 2007 at 8:40pm | Category: General | Comment?WP-Ban is an easy to use WordPress plugin that allows you to easily ban IP address, hosts and even specific referring domains or individual pages from your blog. It works the same way as manually editing your .htaccess file, except that it does the editing for you. It used to be that if you wanted to ban a pesky spammer or annoying drama stirrer from your website, you would have to FTP to your public files, download a copy of the (usually hidden) .htaccess file, add the blocked IP addresses to it, and then re-upload it. Or, login to your hosting account’s cPanel or hosting account management page and ban IP addresses from there.
WP-Ban integrates the banning process right into WordPress, and as mentioned above, adds a few extras. You can ban IP address, or entire ranges of IP addresses. Ban a specific host, or ban a specific referring website. You can also exclude an IP address from being banned — useful if you’re worried you might accidentally ban yourself and have a heck of a time getting back into your website later.
WP-Ban also generates a 403 error page for you, which you can completely customize from the administration page.
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