VPN Guard – Block VPN, Proxy, Bots & Anonymous Visitors

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🧠 Ideal For

• Bloggers looking to protect login and admin access with precision .
• WooCommerce stores wanting to secure checkout or specific product categories from risky traffic.
• Membership sites and online courses needing to protect premium content areas.
• Publishers battling fake traffic or content scrapers on high-value articles or sections.
• Any WordPress site that needs smarter, targeted access control against anonymized and potentially malicious traffic.

🚀 Why Choose VPN Guard?

While other security or VPN-blocking plugins lock core features or charge extra for flexibility, VPN Guard gives you true freemium access with unparalleled control :

• ✅ 100% free with generous API usage for detecting VPNs, Proxies, Tor, and Relays.
• 🎯 Powerful targeting rules at no extra cost!
• 🔓 Key features without nagging upsells.
• 📈 Designed for performance, speed, and SEO safety. Enhanced stability and security in the latest update. > 💥 Use it standalone or alongside other security tools like Wordfence, iThemes Security, All In One WP Security, and more! VPN Guard’s targeting complements them perfectly.

🔌 Integrations & Compatibility

• ✅ Fully compatible with WooCommerce (target cart, checkout, account pages)
• ✅ Works with popular caching plugins
• ✅ Integrates with any WordPress theme or builder
• ✅ Safe for use with CDNs and Cloudflare

📦 API Details

VPN Guard uses vpnapi.io — a modern and reliable IP intelligence service. The API response includes flags for: – VPN: Is the IP a VPN? – Proxy: Is the IP a Proxy? – Tor: Is the IP a Tor exit node? – Relay: Is the IP part of a relay network? (The API may also provide a “hosting” flag indicating a datacenter/hosting IP, which contributes to identifying non-residential traffic, though VPN Guard’s primary blocking is based on the above explicit flags).

• 🆓 Free plan includes 1,000 requests per day
• 🚀 Easy upgrade options available (no commitment)
• 🔐 GDPR compliant, fast response times, and global coverage

You’ll be prompted to add your free API key inside the plugin settings.

💬 Support

Got questions or feature requests? Reach out from the plugin’s built-in feedback form or at https://vpndeals.com/wordpress-plugins/vpn-guard/

External Services

This plugin utilizes the vpnapi.io service to perform real-time IP address analysis. This is essential for the plugin’s core functionality of detecting and blocking traffic from VPNs, proxies, Tor networks, and relays.

• Service Provider: vpnapi.io
• Purpose: To identify the nature of a visitor’s IP address (VPN, proxy, Tor, relay) to enable blocking or restriction based on your plugin settings, thereby enhancing website security and integrity.
• Data Sent: When a visitor accesses a page or area of your site that is actively protected by VPN Guard (and the result for their IP is not already cached locally or if the IP is not whitelisted), the visitor’s IP address is sent to the vpnapi.io service for analysis.
• Service Terms of Use: https://vpnapi.io/terms
• Service Privacy Policy: https://vpnapi.io/privacy

Privacy Considerations

VPN Guard is designed with user and site visitor privacy in mind. Here’s how we handle data:

• Visitor IP Addresses: To protect your site, VPN Guard processes the IP addresses of your site visitors. As detailed in the “External Services” section, visitor IP addresses may be sent to the vpnapi.io service for analysis.
• Data Logging: If a visitor’s IP address is blocked, VPN Guard will store the following information in your local WordPress database: the visitor’s IP address, the date and time of the block, the detection reason (e.g., “VPN”), the URL the visitor attempted to access, their browser user agent, and the HTTP referer. This data is for your security logging and review purposes. You have an option in the plugin settings to delete all plugin data, including these logs, upon uninstallation.
• Cookies: VPN Guard’s core IP blocking functionality does not set any cookies on your website visitors’ browsers.
• Site Administrator Data (Feedback Form): If you choose to send feedback to us via the plugin’s built-in feedback form, it will include your WordPress admin email, site URL, and technical details (plugin version, WP version, PHP version) to help us provide support. This is explicitly stated on the feedback form itself.

* Your Website’s Privacy Policy: We recommend that you update your website’s privacy policy to inform your users about the data processing activities performed by VPN Guard, including the use of the vpnapi.io service and the local logging of blocked IP addresses.