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iQ Block Country · Version history

iQ Block Country changelog and version history

Latest version
1.2.29
Sep 1, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
79
since 2013
In the last year
4
about one every 57 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20131 release
  • 201416 releases
  • 20159 releases
  • 201613 releases
  • 20175 releases
  • 20187 releases
  • 20196 releases
  • 20203 releases
  • 20213 releases
  • 20227 releases
  • 20243 releases
  • 20252 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.2.29Latest

    • Changed: Rewrite of how users IP address is retrieved to fix possible vulnerability of websites behind a proxy/cache. Thanks to Daniel Ruf’s and Nguyen Huu

  2. iQ Block Country 1.2.28

    • Fix: Prevent rare occassion $pagenow can be bypassed in PHP 8.2

  3. iQ Block Country 1.2.27

  4. iQ Block Country 1.2.26

    • Fix: Plugin was no longer compatible with PHP 7

20252 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.2.25

    • Changed: Fixed some PHP 8.1 compability errors
    • Changed: Altered license check

  2. iQ Block Country 1.2.24

    • Added: SiteGuru Service
    • Changed: Multiple internal changes

20243 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.2.23

    • Change: Upgraded the GeoIP Library to the latest version.

  2. iQ Block Country 1.2.22

  3. iQ Block Country 1.2.21

    • Fix: Minor update to support PHP 8.x better

20227 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.2.19

    • Fix: Small security issue fixed
    • Fix: Redirect to page fixed

  2. iQ Block Country 1.2.18

    • Fix: Small errors

  3. iQ Block Country 1.2.17

    • Fix: Other small error

  4. iQ Block Country 1.2.16

    • Fix: DBVERSION error

  5. iQ Block Country 1.2.15

    • Change: A lot of internal code changes to make it more in line of WordPress Best Practices
    • Change: Added Privacy Policy of GeoIP API / Admin API Key
    • Change: Added Terms of Use / Privacy Policy Of MaxMind

  6. iQ Block Country 1.2.14

    • Unreleased version

  7. iQ Block Country 1.2.13

    • Change: Altered import/export function to make it more secure
    • New: Added “Reset Counters” button to reset your total number of frontend / backend blocks.

20213 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.2.9

    • Change: Some codefixes applied

  2. iQ Block Country 1.2.12

    • Change: Added/Changed some services.
    • Bugfix: Security issue fixed which could only be abused by people with administrator rights.

  3. iQ Block Country 1.2.11

    • Change: Minor UI fix
    • Change: Added some more checking if the visitors IP is an actual IPv4 or IPv6 address
    • Change: Updated README

20203 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.2.10

    • Change: Changed whitelist/blacklist to allow list / block list.
    • Change: Removed Paris as GeoIP location
    • Change: Added website server address to allow list of the backend to ensure certain WordPress functions keep working if you block the country your website is hosted from the backend.

  2. iQ Block Country 1.2.8

    • Bugfix: Checking the IP address on the tools tab gave wrong information about countries being blocked if the “block countries below” function was used. This had no effect on the actual denying of visitors.
    • New: Added GeoIP API usage (not realtime) of the current month to the tools tab as beta function.

  3. iQ Block Country 1.2.7

    • Change: Typo in San Francisco (Thanks to Shizart)
    • New: Added France as GeoIP location
    • Change: Update to text description due to MaxMind update to Geo2Lite database policy
    • Bugfix: No empty location anymore (Thanks to Stonehenge Creations)

20196 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.2.6

    • Change: Added better support to detect if mbstring is available for usage.

  2. iQ Block Country 1.2.5

    • New: Mediapartners-Google service added
    • Change: Changed webserver ip detection a bit
    • New: You can unblock feed pages on the frontend configuration tab for the people who want to block visitors but want to allow access to the (RSS) feeds

  3. iQ Block Country 1.2.4

    • Change: Changed webserver ip detection a bit

  4. iQ Block Country 1.2.3

    • Change: Changed inverse option to that you have to select between ‘Block countries selected below’ or ‘Block all countries except those selected below’ as inverse option caused some confusion.
    • New: Added ‘inverse’ function to the pages selection as well. So you can now select the pages you want to block or select the pages you do not want to have blocked and block all other pages.
    • New: Added override function for IP detection.
    • Change: Cutoff for long urls on the statistics page.

  5. iQ Block Country 1.2.2

    • New: Added MOZ as service.
    • New: Added SEMrush as service.
    • New: Added SEOkicks as service.
    • New: Added EU2 and EU3 servers for GeoIP API
    • New: Added support for WPS Hide Login
    • Change: Deleted Asia server due to bad performance
    • Change: Altered behavior of flushing the buffer

  6. iQ Block Country 1.2.1

20187 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.2.0

  2. iQ Block Country 1.1.51

  3. iQ Block Country 1.1.50

  4. iQ Block Country 1.1.49

  5. iQ Block Country 1.1.48

  6. iQ Block Country 1.1.47

  7. iQ Block Country 1.1.46

20175 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.1.45

  2. iQ Block Country 1.1.44

  3. iQ Block Country 1.1.43

  4. iQ Block Country 1.1.42

  5. iQ Block Country 1.1.40

201613 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.1.38

  2. iQ Block Country 1.1.37

  3. iQ Block Country 1.1.36

  4. iQ Block Country 1.1.35

  5. iQ Block Country 1.1.34

  6. iQ Block Country 1.1.33

  7. iQ Block Country 1.1.32

  8. iQ Block Country 1.1.31

  9. iQ Block Country 1.1.30

  10. iQ Block Country 1.1.29

  11. iQ Block Country 1.1.28

  12. iQ Block Country 1.1.27

  13. iQ Block Country 1.1.26

20159 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.1.25

  2. iQ Block Country 1.1.24

  3. iQ Block Country 1.1.23

  4. iQ Block Country 1.1.22

  5. iQ Block Country 1.1.21

  6. iQ Block Country 1.1.20

  7. iQ Block Country 1.1.19

  8. iQ Block Country 1.1.18

  9. iQ Block Country 1.1.17

201416 releases

  1. iQ Block Country 1.1.16

  2. iQ Block Country 1.1.15

  3. iQ Block Country 1.1.14

  4. iQ Block Country 1.1.13

  5. iQ Block Country 1.1.12

  6. iQ Block Country 1.1.11

  7. iQ Block Country 1.1.10

  8. iQ Block Country 1.1.9

  9. iQ Block Country 1.1.8

  10. iQ Block Country 1.1.7

  11. iQ Block Country 1.1.6

  12. iQ Block Country 1.1.5

  13. iQ Block Country 1.1.4

  14. iQ Block Country 1.1.3

  15. iQ Block Country 1.1.2

  16. iQ Block Country 1.1.1

20131 release

  1. iQ Block Country 1.1

Questions about iQ Block Country’s releases

What is the latest version of iQ Block Country?

1.2.29, released on Sep 1, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is iQ Block Country updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 57 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from December 2013.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in iQ Block Country’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.