Title: Plugin not working after WP update
Last modified: April 4, 2019

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# Plugin not working after WP update

 *  [debforest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/debforest/)
 * (@debforest)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-after-wp-update-4/)
 * I updated WordPress to the current 5.1.1 version last Friday. Since then iQ Block
   Country has not been working. I’m using the latest version of the plug-in and
   the GeoIP2 database is installed. I know it’s not working because I have Google
   Analytics on the site and am suddenly getting lots of users from outside the 
   UK. I tried blocking my own country from the front end using country and then
   my IP address, but I can still see the website. Tried clearing the cache and 
   it made no difference.
 * Is there anything you can suggest I try? I noticed that the plug-in hasn’t been
   officially tested with WP 5.1.1 so could there be an unknown issue?

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 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-after-wp-update-4/#post-11394503)
 * Hi,
 * No it’s been tested with 5.1.1 but you mention you cleared the cache. So I assume
   you use a caching plugin.
 * If you use a caching plugin (or other caching solution) WordPress is not started
   for those pages in your cache and the iQ Block Country plugin needs to be started
   by WordPress before it can do it’s job.
 * Ergo if your page is in cache and a visitor from a blocked country visits your
   site it will get the page from cache. It just needs 1 visitor for the page to
   get cached after all so between you clearing the cache and you trying to access
   your own page that visitor might just have passed.
 * I definitely would not recommend caching and using a geo blocking solution unless
   you have a geoblocking solution integrated in your caching (but this can only
   be done by for instance by running varnish and some commercial caching solution
   providers also provide this kind of service).
 *  Thread Starter [debforest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/debforest/)
 * (@debforest)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-after-wp-update-4/#post-11395267)
 * Thanks for your reply, however no that’s not what I mean about the cache. I do
   not have any caching plugin. I just meant that after I changed the blocker to
   block my own country in the front end, I cleared my IE11 browser cache just in
   case the reason I could still see the front end of the site was due to the site
   being cached automatically by my browser.
 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-after-wp-update-4/#post-11400482)
 * Ah sorry then I misunderstood what you were writing.
 * If you still have issues you can send an email to the support mail adress listed
   in the plugin with:
 * – a export of your iQ Block Country settings
    – Screenprint/pdf/copy of the info
   on the tools tab – Output of the ip lookup of your own IP address on the tools
   tab.
 *  [Jixxer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jixxer/)
 * (@jixxer)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-after-wp-update-4/#post-11406870)
 * [@debforest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/debforest/), if you are hosting
   with HostGator then you might want to read through all the posts on this thread
   from other people like myself who are hosting with HostGator. It could be the
   source of your problems too:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/iq-blocker-stopped-working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/iq-blocker-stopped-working)

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 * [iQ Block Country](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/)
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 * Last reply from: [Jixxer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jixxer/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-after-wp-update-4/#post-11406870)
 * Status: not resolved