Description

Use the power of the cloud and a global CDN to restrict access to your login page.

CloudGuard brings global and cloud driven protection to your login page. Using Cloudflare’s free Geolocation service, this super lightweight plugin restricts access to your login page, allowing access to only your chosen countries. This means that any login attempts from the rest of the world will be automatically blocked.

Additionally, this plugin tracks any unauthorized login attempts and displays them on a world map in your dashboard.

Main Features

Protect your login page globally.
Reduce server load.
Country based IP ranges constantly updated by Cloudflare.
Monitor login attempts via your dashboard.
Block access to the login page or redirect to a URL.

Why Cloudflare’s Geolocation?

There are other plugins which can restrict your login page by geographic location. However, these plugins use your server to detect the IP and compare this to a geographic location. This adds extra overhead to your site, takes up space on your server, and requires frequent updates to keep the IP list relevant.

CloudGuard is different. Since we leverage Cloudflare’s geolocation service, your server simply has to read the data, rather than compute and store it locally. Cloudflare does the grunt work, leaving your site safe, secure and optimized.

Note: This plugin requires that you have an account (either free or premium) on Cloudflare with Geolocation enabled.

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Screenshots

Track login attempts from your dashboard.
Global view of login attempts.

Installation

Go to the “Plugins > Add New” page in your WordPress dashboard.
Search for “CloudGuard” and click the install button.
Once installed, go to “Settings > CloudGuard” to complete the setup.

Reviews

mahoney April 5, 2022

Works very well along with WordFence

apaunovski January 19, 2022

This plugin increases dramatically the security of my website and keeps bad actors out of my admin area.

dagazarcane January 9, 2022

This is a great plugin as it locks my login page to one country only and stops the attempted access.

joefletcher January 8, 2022

Been using this for several years. Seems to do the trick pretty well. Crazy see how many different countries are trying to log into my admins.

jmflores16 May 21, 2021

I had problems with some "spam" users registration. I installed this plugin and the problem is solved. Very efficient.

Terence Milbourn March 3, 2021

This plugin does what it says, without fuss and no ridiculous upsells for features you don't need. A really useful plugin if you want to deter the bots and ensure your website users are from specific countries.

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Contributors & Developers

“CloudGuard” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

pipdig

“CloudGuard” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.4.4

Account for “unknown” locations from Cloudflare.

1.4.3

Block login attempts via XMLRPC, unless Jetpack is installed.
WP 5.6 compatibility.

1.4.2

Fix flag image sources.

1.4.1

Add nonce check to “clear stats” button.
Load assets locally rather than Cloudflare CDN.

1.4.0

Option to redirect blocked countries to a URL.

1.3.3

Fix issue with new lower case geolocation country codes from Cloudflare.

1.3.1

No longer requires Cloudflare plugin to operate.
Update country list.
Minor refactoring.

1.3

Add your own custom message if someone is blocked.

1.2

Add option to reset stats in dashboard widget.

1.1

Track login attempts on a global map.

1.0

Initial release!

Perfect

Great plugin

Great Plugin

Protecting my login pages for several years

Awesome!

Excellent lightweight plugin