Ability to Search and Whitelist IPs

  • Norman C Hoffmann

    (@norman-c-hoffmann)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Today I managed to blacklist myself and my host provider, while having the option to ban ip address from accessing the whole site turned on.

    I only knew this happened because for some reason this affected my ability to post links to facebook. Needless to say it took about an hour to figure out what the problem was.

    I was still able to access my site while logged in. But, when I logged out I got the “You’ve been banned by SpammerBlocker screen”. Luckily, I got that or I may have never figured out what was going on.

    I switched the SpammerBlocker options back to block ip address from commenting only and everything went to normal, including my ability to post links to facebook.

    I use two facebook plugins, WordPress Social Sharing Optimization (WPSSO) and SEO Facebook Comments, which may somehow contribute to what happened.

    Anyhow, I realized it was very hard for me to find my own ip address in the list of banned ips. I also realized I am not able to whitelist certain ips either.

    Since I am still not sure exactly how I managed to ban myself and my host provider as well it would be nice to have a whitelist feature and the ability to search the banned ip database.

    Otherwise this is a Topnotch plugin! Thank you for making it.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/spammer-blocker/

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  • Peter

    (@pridge)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Agreed, Norman. I was contemplating the whitelist too. If you have a long blacklist, being able to search it makes sense.

    I’m not sure if the author is still maintaining this plugin. I’ve been using it for many years and have some bug fixes, but I’m waiting to see if they can be incorporated. If there’s no sign of the author in a week or so, would you be interested in a fork of this plugin with fixes and possibly some new features? I definitely want the whitelist, just in case! 🙂

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