Blocker. 1.3.0 – WordPress Firewall Plugin
Blocker is a WordPress plugin that stops fake, malicious, and spam visitors, keeping your site clean and secure. It uses advanced bot verification, VPN/Proxy and IP blocking, and spam registration/comment filtering to reduce bad traffic—plus easy translation and analytics logging for smarter protection.
Description
Blocker is a WordPress security plugin designed to stop fake, malicious, and spam visitors from reaching your site. It helps reduce unwanted registrations and harmful bot activity by using bot verification algorithms, IP and network checks, and spam filtering for comments and signups. Built for WordPress and easy to use alongside popular plugins and themes, it also supports translation so you can match your site language with WPML. With analytics-style logging and statistics, you can review suspicious activity and keep your traffic cleaner over time.
Main Features
- Web Bot Verification Algorithm — Filters counterfeit web bots and allows only safe traffic based on algorithm checks.
- Search Engine Bot Verification — Validates search engine bots (e.g., Googlebot, bingbot) using IP-based verification.
- Proxy & VPN Detection and Blocking — Detects proxy/VPN users and blocks them to reduce anonymized abuse.
- Malicious IP Detection — Uses StopForumSpam API to block malicious IP addresses.
- Spam Registration Filtering (without Captcha) — Blocks malicious email registrations using StopForumSpam API without relying on Captcha.
- Spam Comment Detection and Blocking — Identifies and blocks spam comments tied to abusive addresses.
- Tor Browser & DNS Detection — Detects Tor-related and DNS-based suspicious traffic and blocks it.
- Unknown User Agent Blocking — Flags unusual or undetectable user agents to reduce unnecessary bot requests.
- Data Logging and Statistics — Records malicious activity and provides statistics so you can review suspicions.
- 100% Easy Translation Support — Compatible with translation workflows (including WPML), with default English and Turkish.
Benefits
- Cleaner traffic — Reduces fake user visits that waste resources and trigger spam workflows.
- Better UX — Helps keep forms and comment sections usable for real visitors.
- Lower spam volume — Blocks malicious registrations and comments without needing Captcha prompts.
- Safer integrations — Prevents bad bot traffic from interfering with WordPress and WooCommerce-related user actions.
- More informed decisions — Logging and statistics make it easier to spot patterns and suspicious behavior.
- Global usability — Translation support keeps your protection settings consistent across languages.
Who is it suitable for?
- WooCommerce stores with registration and checkout traffic to protect.
- Blogs and content sites that receive frequent comment spam.
- Web agencies managing multiple WordPress client sites.
- Landing pages and marketing sites with signup forms.
- Online schools and membership sites handling user accounts.
- SaaS and community platforms built on WordPress.
