Author:
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan

Website:
» http://lesterchan.net/

Features:
» Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name and referer url from visiting your WordPress's blog. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referer url trys to visit you blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. There will be statistics recordered on how many times they attemp to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too.

Download:
» WP-Ban 1.50 For WordPress 2.7.x And 2.8.x
» WP-Ban 1.31 For WordPress 2.5.x And 2.6.x
» WP-Ban 1.20 For WordPress 2.1.x To 2.3.x
» WP-Ban 1.00 For WordPress 2.0.x

Screenshots:
» http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/screenshots/browse/wp-ban/

Demo:
» N/A

Development:
» http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/

Translations:
» http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/i18n/

Support Forums:
» http://forums.lesterchan.net/index.php?board=10.0

Credits:
» Right To Left Language Support by Kambiz R. Khojasteh.

Note:
» The Changelog, Installation, Upgrade, Usage Tab at the top of the page.

Donations:
» I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks as my school allowance, I will really appericiate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations. Thank You. My Paypal account is

• Version 1.50 (01-06-2009)
  • NEW: Added "Your User Agent" Details
  • NEW: Uses jQuery Framework
  • FIXED: Uses $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] With plugin_basename(__FILE__) Instead Of Just $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
• Version 1.40 (12-12-2008)
  • NEW: Works With WordPress 2.7 Only
  • NEW: Changed Ban Admin Setting Location To 'WP-Admin -> Settings -> Ban'
  • NEW: Right To Left Language Support by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
  • NEW: Called ban_textdomain() In ban_init() by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
  • NEW: Use language_attributes() To Get Attributes Of HTML Tag For Default Template by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
• Version 1.31 (16-07-2008)
  • NEW: Works With WordPress 2.6
  • FIXED: Do Not Ban If IP is "unknown"
• Version 1.30 (01-06-2008)
  • NEW: Uses /wp-ban/ Folder Instead Of /ban/
  • NEW: Uses wp-ban.php Instead Of ban.php
  • NEW: Uses number_format_i18n()
  • NEW: IPs Listed In Ban Stats Is Now Sorted Numerically
  • NEW: Banned By User Agents (By: Jorge Garcia de Bustos)
  • FIXED: "unknown" IPs (By: Jorge Garcia de Bustos)
• Version 1.20 (01-10-2007)
  • NEW: Ability To Uninstall WP-Ban
  • NEW: Moved Ban Options From ban.php To ban-options.php
• Version 1.11 (01-06-2007)
  • NEW: Banned By Referer URL
  • NEW: Ability To Exclude Specific IPs From Being Banned
  • NEW: Added Template Variables For User Attempts Count And Total Attempts Count
  • FIXED: Suppress gethostbyaddr() Error
• Version 1.10 (01-02-2007)
  • NEW: Works For WordPress 2.1 Only
  • NEW: Move ban.php To ban Folder
  • NEW: Localize WP-Ban
  • NEW: Added Ban Attempts Statistics In 'WP-Admin -> Manage -> Ban'
  • NEW: Move Ban Tab To 'WP-Admin -> Manage'
  • NEW: Added Toggle All Checkboxes
  • FIXED: Main Administrator Of The Site Cannot Be Banned
• Version 1.00 (02-01-2007)
  • NEW: Initial Release

1. Open wp-content/plugins Folder
2. Put:

   Folder: wp-ban

3. Activate WP-Ban Plugin
4. Refer To Usage For Further Instructions

1. Deactivate WP-Ban Plugin
2. Open wp-content/plugins Folder
3. Put/Overwrite:

   Folder: wp-ban

4. Delete this folder if exists:

   Folder: ban

5. Activate WP-Ban Plugin
6. Refer To Usage For Further Instructions

1. Go to 'WP-Admin -> Settings -> Ban'
2. Configure your ban options