There are two reasons to
block countries from visiting a website, first one most of the website are not
getting audience from the targeted countries or regions and the second one is
to protect website from the hackers. Here will see how to block visitors from
different countries in wordpress website.
Step 1: You must need to install IQ Block Country wordpress plugin and activate the plugin. Once you activate it go to
settings and click on IQ Block Country as below screenshot.
Step 2: Once you get it to the plugin on the top you can
find Home, Frontend and Backend tabs, leave Home tab as it has default settings
and now we are going to work on Frontend and Backend tabs only to block the
countries.
Step 3: Now, click on Frontend tab first we need to
understand what is frontend tab, in the frontend tab you can specify the list
of countries that you want to block or don’t want to show website in the
particular country visitors.
Step 4: Once you get into the frontend tab, make sure
you must click on the “ Block Visitors from visiting the frontend of your
website ” check box and in the below you can find the option “ Select
the countries that should be blocked from visiting your frontend ” in
this box you have to mention the countries you want to block.
Step 5: Now you have to click on Backend tab, here backend means it’s
starts off with all the countries list, click on the “ Block visitors from
visiting the backend (administrator) of your website: ” check box as like
below screenshot. Next, in the “ Select the countries that should be blocked
from visiting your backend: ” box mention those countries you want to block
make sure one thing Remove Your Targeting Countries then click on save
changes.
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