Best blocking plugins for WordPress
The most popular blocking plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Country Blocker leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of Block Comment Spam Bots (800+) and Spam IP Blocker (100+). All 7 plugins tagged “blocking” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 7 blocking plugins
- 1.
Advanced Country BlockerThe most installed blocking plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
Block Comment Spam Bots800+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 3.
Spam IP Blocker100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4.
- 4.
Simple Site Lockdown80+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 5.
Block Spammers30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 6.
Simple AI BlockerFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 7.
Ganava Location Access ControlFewer than 10 active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 7 plugins tagged “blocking”
Advanced Country Blocker
Up in the last 7 days:6#4,518by brstefanovic9 months ago
An advanced security plugin that blocks website visitors by country, with additional features like blacklisting, logging blocked attempts, admin bypas …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Block Comment Spam Bots
Down in the last 7 days:11#7,386by Rick Hellewell2 years ago
A simple to use plugin that stops automated spam. Install and forget, and any automated spam targeting your native WordPress comments is immediately t …
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 9/day
Spam IP Blocker
Up in the last 7 days:166#16,548by Aleksei Znaev15 years ago
Free spam IP blocker according to public DNSBL bases.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Site Lockdown
Down in the last 7 days:200#17,481by Philip John12 years ago
Provides a really simple mechanism for locking down a site so that it's private to all but logged in admin users.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Block Spammers
#23,491by sander858 years ago
Block spammers from submitting comments, by IPs or by bad words.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple AI Blocker
Up in the last 7 days:7,359#56,034by maxhaesslein2 years ago
Block AI Crawlers directly via their IP addresses or user-agents.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ganava Location Access Control
Up in the last 7 days:3,130#69,438by sandipganava5 months ago
Control your site access globally with precision. Block or redirect visitors based on their country, region, or city using Cloudflare headers or high- …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day