Title: 4 Basic Questions about how plugin functions
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# 4 Basic Questions about how plugin functions

 *  Resolved [Pigo3934blog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pigo3934blog/)
 * (@pigo3934blog)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/4-basic-questions-about-how-plugin-functions/)
 * 1) – Will this block “site wide” ? or “server wide” ?
 * 2) – How would I test this plugin AS IF I were in a different country ?
 * 3) – Does this affect search engines ?
 * 4) – Does this help deflect Bruteforce or DDOS attacks ?
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 * Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/4-basic-questions-about-how-plugin-functions/#post-6735593)
 * 1: Site wide, but limited to requests that are handled by WordPress. So for instance
   images that are served by the webserver directly will not be blocked. But posts,
   pages etc will.
 * 2: Use for instance a VPN service that has representation in different countries
   and also supplied the correct country names for their ip addresses.
 * 3: You can allow search engines in the configuration
 * 4: It will be easier for the webserver to handle DDOS attacks as it will limit
   the output that it has to send to blocked countries. But it is not designed in
   any way specifically to mitigate DDOS attacks.
 *  Thread Starter [Pigo3934blog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pigo3934blog/)
 * (@pigo3934blog)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/4-basic-questions-about-how-plugin-functions/#post-6735680)
 * Thanks for the reply.
 * I am using [http://www.proxy4free.com/](http://www.proxy4free.com/)
 * to test the plugin.
 * BUT…
 * I can still see the website.
 * ============
 * Can you please give me some good PROXY testers that I could use to check this
   plugin ?
 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/4-basic-questions-about-how-plugin-functions/#post-6735735)
 * Hi,
 * I don’t use a proxy or a VPN myself. I I use one of those freeproxies I see my
   ban message. So I cannot help you there.
 * Personally I have a couple of VPS servers in different countries

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/4-basic-questions-about-how-plugin-functions/#post-6735735)
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