New in 1.5.0 — a guided, five-step Settings screen. Each step sits in its own numbered card that explains what it does in plain English: choose your mode and countries, choose what view-only visitors can’t do, choose what they see, set exemptions, then test your setup with the built-in diagnostics panel.
Block by IP too. A wildcard IP blacklist blocks specific visitors regardless of country: exact IPs, CIDR ranges, or wildcards like 203.0.113.*.
Easy country picking. A filterable checkbox list with select-all and a live count. Allowlist or blocklist, your choice — pick which countries get the full interactive experience, or invert it and restrict only a handful.
Everything blocked in one move: WooCommerce purchases, every major form plugin, comments, registration and login — enforced across page loads, AJAX and the REST API, while administrators and editors can always sign in from anywhere.
Steadier under load (1.6–1.7). A lookup outage or rate-limit burst is now told apart from a genuinely unknown country and cached only briefly, so one bad minute no longer turns every visitor view-only. Other PBJ plugins can block a country or an IP through Geo Viewer itself — which is how one click in PBJ Forms & Products blocks a spammer’s whole country — and removing the last country from an allowlist is refused, so the whole world can never be made view-only by accident.
