Title: Manual IP blocking?
Last modified: October 15, 2016

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# Manual IP blocking?

 *  Resolved [loulantos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loulantos/)
 * (@loulantos)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manual-ip-blocking/)
 * I see the IP manager, but it’s only allowing automatic blocking of IPs, what 
   I’m really looking to do is manually add offending IPs, is this possible?

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 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manual-ip-blocking/#post-8303340)
 * This is not made possible with Shield as it’s not a viable security policy. You
   can read a little more about it here:
    [https://www.icontrolwp.com/blog/beware-new-security-theat-wordpress-misinformation-virus/](https://www.icontrolwp.com/blog/beware-new-security-theat-wordpress-misinformation-virus/)
 *  Thread Starter [loulantos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loulantos/)
 * (@loulantos)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manual-ip-blocking/#post-8303413)
 * Thanks for the response, and I can appreciate the stance, but when the same IP
   from the same user has abused my site on frequent occasions, I’m happy to take
   the sledgehammer approach in aid of prevention. Especially as the only recourse
   I currently have is to ban the email associated, and that’s about as easy to 
   circumvent as the offender signing up for another one.

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 * Last reply from: [loulantos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loulantos/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manual-ip-blocking/#post-8303413)
 * Status: resolved