{"id":670,"date":"2023-10-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/?post_type=codex&#038;p=670"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:00:08","slug":"whitelist-external-services","status":"publish","type":"codex","link":"https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/codex\/whitelist-external-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitelist external services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are using plugins that need to reach your website&#8217;s API from their servers, you will need few additional steps to make this work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By default IP Location Block will block their servers, but don&#8217;t worry you can easily whitelist their IP addresses and make it operational again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to whitelist external IPs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To whitelist external IPs, please navigate to &#8220;<strong>Settings<\/strong>&#8221; &gt; &#8220;<strong>IP Location Block<\/strong>&#8221; &gt; &#8220;<strong>Whitelist of extra IP Addresses prior to country code<\/strong>&#8220;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This option also offers simple calculator that will help you with creating IP ranges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2.png 1355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to find IP address of external service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the external services have documentation page that outlines which IP addresses needs to be whitelisted in firewalls. If they don&#8217;t, then please contact the service support and they should be able to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the existing WordPress plugins that documents this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.wp-rocket.me\/article\/1267-troubleshooting-critical-css-generation-issues\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.wp-rocket.me\/article\/1267-troubleshooting-critical-css-generation-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WP Rocket<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/support\/how-to-add-jetpack-ips-allowlist\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/support\/how-to-add-jetpack-ips-allowlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jetpack<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-670","codex","type-codex","status-publish","hentry","codex-category-features-and-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/codex\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/codex"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/codex"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplocationblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}