Add Blacklist section in your security tab
The current server management console, has a n area where we can whitelist our IP address to avoid lockout problems. But could we also get for our servers a blacklist option?
There are multiple WordPress sites I manage. And you have no idea how many hacking attempts I get daily. Being able to block the ip addresses from where these attempts are coming from...could really help us secure our WP sites even more.

22 comments
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Davide Vecchini commented
...and it would be great to have APIs to add/remove IPs to the blacklist (that could be integrated in our applications) - something like https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/
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Anonymous commented
Would like to see this as well!
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Anonymous commented
I want this feature
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Scamando commented
Yes, +1 - If you have an attack, it would be nice to be able to add ip range to stop.
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Anonymous commented
Please do this
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Anonymous commented
This is really necessary.
If anyone has an idea of how to overcome the IP blacklist problem without having to copy
order allow,deny
deny from
allow from allblock for each application in the .htaccess file will be great.
Cloudways had an announcement that IP blacklisting has been released but I can't find it in the management console. -
Bram commented
defenite GO
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R Smith commented
I UPVOTE this idea!
This would be a very good feature to have in the Cloudways panel. -
C commented
Please... why is there no word on this?
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Touraj commented
It’s been over 5 years since Avelardo made this very important suggestion, but not one word from Cloudways.
Hello Cloudways team, you got many thing right but why not this one?
As others said, pleeeeease give us the ability to block and unblock offending IPs.
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Pablo Miatello commented
Very good feature!!
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Andy Towler commented
This is absolutely essential. Please implement asap!
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Axel de la Torre commented
PLEEEEEASE
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Ian commented
Yes please
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Anonymous commented
Yes, this is necessary!
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Anonymous commented
yes, please add this feature asap!
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Ada Maria Lorenc commented
I would loooove this feature!
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Dan Lavie commented
Please implement this feature as soon as possible.
I'll have to switch to digital ocean soon if this feature is not available. -
Daniel commented
Please implement this feature, it would go very well alongside being able to whitelist. It feels kinda weird being able to add trusted sources but not being able to block harmful sources.
Also, please do this as a feature just as whitelisting, and NOT having us rely on further crappy WP plugins such as iThemes or Wordfence. Keep the platform clean, and let people use whatever plugins they want, but don't rely on these bloated monster plugins for basic stuff as firewall black-listing.
Thank you
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Tevya Washburn - FS commented
iThemes Security plugin has an option to blacklist IP's. Plus lots of great tools/settings to automatically blacklist them. It's worked great for us. Reach out to me, if you want help configuring it.