Title: Compatibility with other security plugin
Last modified: December 6, 2016

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# Compatibility with other security plugin

 *  Resolved [patrick_here](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrick_here/)
 * (@patrick_here)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-with-other-security-plugin/)
 * Hello and thanks for this great plugin.
 * I need to be using this plugin with at least one other security-related plugin(
   currently using “Login Lockdown”) so as to be able to block users after a certain
   number of failed login attempts over a fixed time period.
 * MY QUESTION:
    Can you help me to understand what determines the order in which
   the functions in these two plugins will be called? Specifically, I’m using your
   plugin on two sites. On one site it works but on the other it doesn’t and I think
   it’s because Login Lockdown is looking at the host first and then IQ BlockByCountry
   doesn’t look at it after that. Please advise. Thank you.

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 *  Thread Starter [patrick_here](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrick_here/)
 * (@patrick_here)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-with-other-security-plugin/#post-8517967)
 * Actually …CORRECTION:
    The other plugin I was using on that site was “Login Attempt
   Log”. But the question is the same …I have it configured to block all countries
   outside of my own but these outside hosts are getting through …just on that one
   website.
 *  But your plugin works fine on another site.
 *  Thread Starter [patrick_here](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrick_here/)
 * (@patrick_here)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-with-other-security-plugin/#post-8520019)
 * Okay I’ve definitely observed that “Login Lockdown” does interfere with “IQ Block
   Country” in some way …though I’m not quite sure how. It’s just that I can see
   that many, many requests (to my wp-login.php) from many countries are not getting
   blocked by “IQ Block Country” but they are getting blocked later by Login Lockdown.
   However many requests ARE getting blocked by “IQ Block Country”. Also, the ones
   that are getting through are in my “geoiplookup” database so that’s why I think
   it’s not that they are missing in the database.
 * I’m a software developer so I can debug this at the code level but I thought 
   I’d ask for your input first. Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [patrick_here](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrick_here/)
 * (@patrick_here)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-with-other-security-plugin/#post-8522657)
 * **YOUR PLUGIN IS WORKING CORRECTLY !!!**
 * **Please ignore the above two posts**. I went into my database and saw that the
   IP’s **were indeed banned**. I had mis-interpreted my Apache log. In some cases
   the attacker repeated attacks from the same IP address even though it had already
   been banned by IQ Block Country!
 * Thanks for this great plugin. I just submitted a donation!
 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-with-other-security-plugin/#post-8538746)
 * Hi Patrick,
 * Thank you for the info and the support 🙂

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-with-other-security-plugin/#post-8538746)
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