Login IP & Country Restriction

79 Quality Score

Active Installs

17/30

With roughly 8,000 active installs it is a mid-tier niche plugin, not a household name, but it outperforms its baseline popularity expectation.

Update Freshness

25/25

The plugin was updated within days of this review and explicitly supports WordPress 7.0, which is the strongest possible maintenance signal.

User Rating

14/15

A 92 out of 100 across 51 ratings is an excellent user satisfaction score, suggesting most users get the result they want.

Support Health

8/15

There are zero support threads opened, zero resolved, which means there is no track record of help being available when something goes sideways.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Full marks for compatibility, with tested support for WordPress 7.0, a 5.1 minimum requirement, and PHP 7.4.

Scores higher than 71% of indexed plugins

About

Tighten your website security and fight against dictionary bot attacks originating from other countries, by denying access.

Active Installs 8k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.6/5

Last Updated 2026-05-21 6:41am GMT

Requires WordPress 5.1+

Tested Up To 7.0.4

Requires PHP 7.4+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Login IP & Country Restriction blocks or allows access to your WordPress login page based on the visitor's IP address or geographic country. It lets administrators define country allowlists or blocklists, restrict specific IP ranges, and apply these rules to wp-login.php and wp-admin to fend off brute force and dictionary attacks from foreign botnets.

Who It's For

This plugin is best for site owners who operate from a known geographic area and want to shut the door on login attempts from everywhere else, such as US-only SaaS products, regional e-commerce stores, financial portals, and government or healthcare sites subject to jurisdictional access controls. It is also a reasonable fit for small businesses that are seeing repeated brute force traffic from overseas.

Who Should Skip It

If your audience is genuinely international, or if you rely on contributors, clients, or travelling staff who log in from changing IPs and countries, this plugin will lock out legitimate users. Sites using a CDN, proxy, or shared office network where many users share an IP range should also look elsewhere.

The Bottom Line

Login IP & Country Restriction does a narrow job cleanly, scores 78.78 out of 100, and is kept current by its developer, but its tiny install base and absent support footprint mean you are largely on your own if something breaks. It is worth a look for single-region sites that want a lightweight country firewall; everyone else should default to IP2Location Country Blocker.

Related Plugins

IP2Location Country Blocker 80/100

Pick IP2Location Country Blocker instead if you want a far more established plugin with 30,000 installs, a larger community, and a longer support history behind it.