iQ Block Country vs Spam Filter For Elementor Form

iQ Block Country is a plugin that allows you to limit access to your website content. You can either allow or disallow visitors from defined countries to (parts of) your content. For instance if you have content that should be restricted to a limited set of countries you can do so. If you want to block rogue countries that cause issues like for instance hack attempts, spamming of your comments etc you can block them as well. Do you want secure your WordPress Admin backend site to only your country? Entirely possible! You can even block all countries and only allow your ip address. And even if you block a country you can still allow certain visitors by putting their ip address on the allow list just like you can allow a country but put ip addresses on the block list from that country. You can show blocked visitors a message which you can style by using CSS or you can redirect them to a page within your WordPress site. Or you can redirect the visitors to an external website. You can (dis)allow visitors to blog articles, blog categories or pages or all content. Stop visitors from doing harmful things on your WordPress site or limit the countries that can access your blog. Add an additional layer of security to your WordPress site. This plugin uses the GeoLite database from Maxmind. It has a 99.5% accuracy so that is pretty good for a free database. If you need higher accuracy you can buy a license from MaxMind directly. If you cannot or do not want to download the GeoIP database from Maxmind you can use the GeoIP API website available on https://webence.net/ If you want to use the GeoLite database from Maxmind you will have to download the GeoIP database from MaxMind directly and upload it to your site. The WordPress license does not allow this plugin to download the MaxMind Geo database for you. Please be aware that although this plugin can help you greatly with reducing the number of ‘bad’ visitors on your website it is not fool proof and those who really want to visit your site may find a away. This is not a security issue but a simple fact of today. Nobody can guarantee you 100% security as it is a constant battle between the good guys and the bad guys. If you are sure your webhosting or yourself does not use any form of caching or proxying we recommend setting the “Override IP information” on the Home tab to REMOTE_ADDR Do you need help with this plugin? Please email [email protected]. GDPR Information This plugin stores data about your visitors in your local WordPress database. The number of days this data is stores can be configured on the settings page. You can also disable logging any data. Data which is stored of blocked visitors: IP Address Date and time of the visit URL that was requested Country of the IP address If the block happened on your backend or your frontend Data which is stored on non blocked visitors: Nothing If you allow tracking (yeah if you do!) you share some information with us. This is only the IP address of a blocked request on your backend. No other information is send and only the IP address is logged on our systems to gather how many times that IP address have attempted to login to a backend. We do not log which site was visited or which URL just only the IP address So we cannot lead an ip address back to a specific website or user. If an IP address is not blocked again within a month we will remove the IP address from the list. If you use the GeoIP API service you send the IP address of your visitor to one of our servers. This IP Address is however in no way stored at our servers and only used to convert it to a country id. Using this plugin with a caching plugin Please note that many of the caching plugins are not compatible with this plugin. The nature of caching is that a dynamically build web page is cached into a static page. If a visitor is blocked this plugin sends header data where it supplies info that the page should not be cached. Many plugins however disregard this info and cache the page or the redirect. Resulting in valid visitors receiving a message that they are blocked. This is not a malfunction of this plugin. Disclaimer: No guarantees are made but after some light testing the following caching plugins seem to work: Comet Cache, WP Super Cache Plugins that do NOT work: W3 Total Cache, Hyper cache, WPRocket Warning: Caching & Geo Blocking do not work well together. In the best case scenario countries or IP’s you want to block get served a page from cache and when visiting non cached pages they get blocked. This is due to the fact when pages are served from cache the iQ Block Country plugin does not get started and can’t do it’s job. If the caching plugin however ignores the caching headers you risk the chance that the block message gets cached and everyone gets to see they are blocked even the countries that you did not block. If you’re fine with blocked countries getting served the page from cache then you’re fine using the iQ Block Country plugin. If you’re not you should disable either the cache or the Geo Blocking. Or search for another solution outside WordPress (for instance by using the Varnish software) where you can GeoBlock at a caching level. GeoIP API For your convenience we offer a GeoIP API service. This API is not mandatory to use as you can always use the free MaxMind GeoIP Database. If you do not want or can’t go through the hassle of updating your MaxMind GeoIP database we provide an API service to convert the IP address of your visitors to a country. If you decide to purchase an GeoIP API Key via https://webence.net you’ll get an eMail with your API Key (License Key). Once you enter this key in your iQ Block Country settings your license key will be validated at our API service and a the nearest API server to you will be chosen. To do this your website will contact all API servers once to request an empty file. Once you use the API service the IP address of your visitors and your API key are send to one of the API servers and converted to a country. The plugin checks if the visitor should be blocked based on that country or not. What is logged on our end? * Upon validation of your license key your request will be logged in our webserver logs. (This will be the IP address of your webserver). * Upon checking an IP address of your visitor this IP address is only used to convert it to the country it belongs to and is not logged. We have no way to link a visitors IP address to your website. What is logged is your API Key and the Website URL making the request. If you decide to purchase the GeoIP API key your chosen payment account will be charged by on a time basis. This subscription will not renew itself unless you subscribed to our service prior to September 2024. Privacy policy regarding this service specific can be found here: https://webence.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Privacy-Policy-Webence-API.pdf MaxMind Database Usage This plugin uses the Free version of the MaxMind GeoIP2 Country Database. You can also use the paid version but will have to make sure it is uploaded to the same location with the filename of Free database. MaxMind Terms of Use: https://www.maxmind.com/en/terms-of-use MaxMind Privacy Policy: https://www.maxmind.com/en/privacy-policy

Tired of spammy SEO pitches, fake marketing offers, and bot submissions flooding your Elementor Pro forms? By filtering only the message field, you can eliminate up to 95% spam submissions. Spam Filter For Elementor Form do that and gives you the control you need to stop them, without relying on external services. This plugin filters the input field of your forms to block submissions containing unwanted words, suspicious URLs, or emails from unauthorized domains. You can block all URLs except those from your domain or specific domains you allow. If someone tries to submit a form with a disallowed link, they’ll see a clear error message asking them to remove it. Here’s the beauty of it: real visitors who want to share something useful will usually say, “I have a link to share, can you contact me so I can send it?” Spam bots, on the other hand, just drop links and hit submit. That’s where this filter stops them. Whether you want to block certain phrases, links, or reject emails from shady domains, this plugin lets you do it easily, right from the WordPress dashboard. Features: Enable or disable filtering for specific or all Elementor Pro forms. Block messages that contain specific words or patterns. Reject any submission containing links—except those from allowed domains. Block or allow email addresses based on domain (whitelist or blocklist mode). Custom error messages shown directly inside the form. No third-party services or APIs—fully local and lightweight. Built exclusively for Elementor Pro forms. Perfect for any site owner who’s fed up with form spam and wants a simple, effective way to stop it. How to Use: Enable Filtering: Go to Elementor → Settings → Contact Form Filter and check the “Enable Spam Filter” option. Target the Right Form: Enter the name of the form you want to filter in the “Form Name” setting. This must match the “Form Name” from your Elementor Pro form settings. Set Blocked Words: Add a list of blocked words (one per line). Any form submission containing these words will be rejected. Filter URLs: Only allow URLs from specific domains. Other links will trigger a validation error. Control Email Domains: Enable email filtering and choose between whitelist or blocklist mode. Add domains or full email addresses to control who can submit the form. Enjoying the Plugin? If you find Spam Filter For Elementor Form helpful, please consider leaving a review on WordPress.org. Your feedback helps us improve and reach more users. Other useful and absolutely free plugins from WizBee IT Easy Duplicate Woo Order: Adds a custom action to duplicate WooCommerce orders easily. Custom Product in Woo Order: Add custom one-time items directly to WooCommerce orders without adding them to the catalog. Visit our website for more at WizBee IT License This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later license. For more information, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.