Title: Blocking users
Last modified: November 19, 2021

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# Blocking users

 *  Resolved [Ate Up With Motor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ate-up-with-motor/)
 * (@ate-up-with-motor)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-users-6/)
 * Does the free plugin still allow me to manually ban specific users by IP address?
   I’m looking at the “Ban Users” settings and it now only has a box for user agents,
   which won’t let me add IP addresses. If it’s still possible to manually block
   IP addresses, where are those settings now?

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 *  [nlpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlpro/)
 * (@nlpro)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-users-6/#post-15083944)
 * The functionality has moved to the Security > Dashboard -> [**Banned Users**](https://ps.w.org/better-wp-security/assets/screenshot-2.png?rev=2581716)
   card.
 * +++++ To prevent any confusion, I’m not iThemes +++++
 *  Thread Starter [Ate Up With Motor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ate-up-with-motor/)
 * (@ate-up-with-motor)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-users-6/#post-15084028)
 * [@nlpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlpro/) Ahh! I would not have figured
   that out myself, thank you.
 * To ban a range of IP addresses, I still need to use * as a wildcard, right? (
   Deny rules in .htaccess can just omit the final octet to catch a range, but iThemes
   Security used to require wildcards, e.g., ###.###.###.* or ###.###.*.*, and I’m
   assuming that’s still true.)
 *  [nlpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlpro/)
 * (@nlpro)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-users-6/#post-15084542)
 * Yes, banning a range of IP addresses using one or more * (wildcards) is still
   supported. EG: On saving **123.123.123.\*** gets automatically converted to **
   123.123.123.0/24** CIDR notation format.
 *  Thread Starter [Ate Up With Motor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ate-up-with-motor/)
 * (@ate-up-with-motor)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-users-6/#post-15084552)
 * [@nlpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlpro/) – Okay, that seems to work!
   Thanks so much.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-users-6/#post-15084552)
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