With Anti Spam Protection you can block access from specific IP addresses, countries, states, or cities to your website.
Country, state, region, or city names are not case sensitive, but must be spelled correctly (in English) for the feature to work properly.
This function is safe and does not affect SEO.
If Automatic IP Address Blacklist Check is enabled, your site is protected from known spammers and malicious bots.
These IPs come from trusted sources and most are known crawlers or scam services.
Blacklisted IPs are automatically detected and blocked.
If you prefer not to use this protection, you can disable it in the plugin settings.
This option will remove all your site content, design, and template from blocked users, and instead display a custom message.
How does it work?
When this feature is enabled in the plugin settings,
your website becomes protected from spam traffic across the globe.
You can also manually define specific geographic parameters (country, region, city) or IP addresses to block access.
The settings are intuitive and user-friendly. By choosing the desired rules, you configure Geo Controller to fully prevent access based on the criteria you provide.
To improve user experience and avoid confusion, you can display a custom message or HTML content to visitors who are denied access.
… and the final result looks like this:
Note: This feature also affects wp-admin access. If you block your own IP, country, region, or city, you will lose access to your site’s backend as well.