My forum is mainly for Japanese customers.
Therefore I would like to disable access from Chinese and Korean IPs.
Is there such a plugin?
I’ve tried looking for settings and there doesn’t seem to be a function that can be set directly.
AI-generated summary
The discussion revolves around restricting access to a forum from certain regional IPs. wenqin wants to block Chinese and Korean IPs, as their forum is mainly for Japanese customers. jericson cautions against this approach, citing the possibility of Japanese customers traveling to China and Korea, as well as the use of VPNs.
Jericson suggests looking into the “Screened IPs” setting in the forum logs, but wenqin mentions that this setting is not having the desired effect. wenqin decides to ban Chinese and Korean IPs to avoid attracting unrelated customers.
JammyDodger recommends a geo-blocking plugin, which wenqin installs. However, wenqin reports that the plugin is not working as expected and seeks help with the settings.
This seems like a bad idea since Japanese customers are free to travel to Korea and China as far as I know. Plus VPNs etc. . .
That said, you might look at Setting | Logs | Screened IPs.
Thank you very much for your reply.
I’ve found where the settings are, and it seems that the settings are not having the effect of disabling IP access for this reason. I will look into it again.
I will ban Chinese and Korean ip. because I want to avoid unnecessary trouble. Because China, Korea and Japan have the same skin color and similar aesthetics. I don’t want to attract customers with little connection.
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You could try the Geo Blocking plugin
