Title: Block IP
Last modified: September 20, 2021

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# Block IP

 *  Resolved [bigzakweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigzakweb/)
 * (@bigzakweb)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-ip-12/)
 * When I look at Live Traffic in my Wordfense dashboard, I see several unauthorized
   login attempts that failed. If I “block IP” will that prevent them from trying
   to login from that IP address or will that just block the data from showing that
   IP?

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 *  Plugin Support [wfpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfpeter/)
 * (@wfpeter)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-ip-12/#post-14893160)
 * Hi [@bigzakweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigzakweb/), thanks for reaching
   out.
 * It’s best with the items you’re seeing in Live Traffic is to understand and check
   the settings that allow Wordfence to deal with these for you. It sounds from 
   your description that Wordfence is catching these attempts so this sounds good
   for you going forward.
 * Some of the WAF rule blocks, as they aren’t assigned a block expiration time,
   never appear on the **Firewall > Blocking** page. If **Wordfence > All Options
   > Brute Force > Amount of time a user is locked out** and **Wordfence > All Options
   > Rate Limiting > How long is an IP address blocked when it breaks a rule?** 
   are set to low timescales such as minutes or hours, you may never see them on
   any blocked list as they’ve already been removed when you check. You can try 
   increasing these to days or months if you prefer. Naturally, make sure both [Brute Force](https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/brute-force/)
   and [Rate Limiting](https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/rate-limiting/) toggles
   are set to **ON** for these rules to work.
 * My general advice after looking into the sections mentioned above, is that Wordfence
   does all of the important blocking for you automatically so you don’t have to.
   A planned manual IP blocking plan is generally an ineffective strategy and takes
   up your time, so please consult the following links before deciding on what you
   do going forward:
 * [https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/11/should-permantly-block-ips/](https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/11/should-permantly-block-ips/)
 * [https://www.wordfence.com/help/blocking/#ip-address](https://www.wordfence.com/help/blocking/#ip-address)
 * I hope this helps you out.
 * Thanks,
 * Peter.

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