Blacklist Manager — WordPress Checkout Plugin
Blacklist Manager – WooCommerce Anti-Fraud, Blacklist & Checkout Verification
by YoOhw Studio · WordPress.org page · Website
Blacklist Manager has 2,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 74,157 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on September 4, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Blacklist Manager at a glance
Is Blacklist Manager well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- WooCommerce checkout protection: Block or review orders using phone, email, IP address, and email domain rules
- Suspect and blocked lists: Review risky identities before moving confirmed abuse to the blocklist
- Fast blacklist management: Add entries from the dashboard or directly from the WooCommerce order screen
- Registration protection: Stop signups that match blocked emails, IP addresses, or email domains
- Comment and review blocking: Prevent comments and product reviews from blacklisted emails
- Form spam protection: Check Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, and WPForms submissions against blacklist data
- Checkout email verification: Require a Core-owned email verification code before allowing checkout to continue
- WooCommerce REST API protection: Block blacklisted identities from creating orders through external apps or integrations
- Custom notices and alerts: Customize customer-facing block messages and admin email alerts
- Dashboard stats: Review blacklist entries and detection attempts from the admin area
Blacklist Manager reviews and ratings
13 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
13 reviews
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Excellent plugin, great support.
An excellent plugin, I've been using it for a while and it's worked for me to block some orders from problematic customers. Best of all, the support is excellent and extremely fast.
DidierMX -
Free version is extremely crippled
Almost everything mentioned in the description is not available in the free version. You could call that a "bait and switch". At the very least, it is dishonest.
trotsky -
Only 2 settings for the free version of the plugin!
The free version of this plugin is hilariously useless. As you go through the settings panel every setting in 7 of the 8 settings panels requires to be unlocked via the pro plugin version. There are only 2 settings in the general panel that can be used. One is Cancel the order / Prevent customers from checking out if they use the phone number or email address is on the blocklist. But you cant actually use the phone number or email blocking unless you upgrade! The only actual setting that works is via subscribing to their global blacklist. Such blacklists are useless (I explain why below). Going through the grayed out settings almost all are useless in any case. Bot farms attempting to test stolen credit card numbers use public domain email variations such as johndoe24f5@gmail/hotmail/yahoo and if you block a top level free mail provider your at risk of losing most of your potential customers. And bot farms have access to hundreds of thousands of ips worldwide so they will rotate the ips for every order attempt - we just dealt with one CC swarm which used over 75k American ips. Simple IP blocking is 5th grade amateur level defense that is easily defeated by an attack. The only settings in this plugin that would be useful are matching IP address to the order address, preventing multiple orders with the same email/phone and requiring a confirmation email or text. And none of those features are available in the free version of the plugin. Garbage in, garbage out.
Maxcom -
Works Very Well
WooCommerce site was being flooded with Failed orders and CC fraud. Installed the plugin, configuration was fairly easy. And it stopped the CC failed orders. Will keep an eye on the situation, but for now, it works as advertised. Tech support and customer service is very good.
tangentwpservices -
Breaking all form functionality
All of my forms and woocommerce checkout is getting a critical error when a user submits. The risk for lost customer trust is not worth installing.
tuchubby -
Works well
Installed this plug-in to block the IP addresses of some malicious 'customers' who would order and deny receiving the goods to seek refunds. Even though we had proof of delivery. No more bad orders since using the plug-in
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Where Blacklist Manager ranks on WordPress.org
The rankings we track that Blacklist Manager appears in, and how its position changed over 30 days.
| Ranking | WordPress.org placement | Position | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Checkout Plugins | #34 by tag, #40 in search | #20 | – |
| Best Anti-Spam Plugins | #48 in search, not tagged | #80 | – |
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Details
Block risky WooCommerce orders, spam signups, and form submissions with blacklist rules plus built-in checkout email verification.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Rankings Blacklist Manager competes in
Tags
- blacklist
- checkout
- form spam
- fraud prevention
- WooCommerce Anti-Fraud
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- Version
- 2.3.1
- Last updated
- Sep 4, 2026
- First published
- Jan 18, 2024
- Requires WordPress
- 6.3
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Blacklist Manager FAQ
What does Blacklist Manager do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Blacklist Manager offers WooCommerce checkout protection: Block or review orders using phone, email, IP address, and email domain rules, Suspect and blocked lists: Review risky identities before moving confirmed abuse to the blocklist, Fast blacklist management: Add entries from the dashboard or directly from the WooCommerce order screen, Registration protection: Stop signups that match blocked emails, IP addresses, or email domains and Comment and review blocking: Prevent comments and product reviews from blacklisted emails.
How many active installs does Blacklist Manager have?
WordPress.org reports 2,000+ active installs for Blacklist Manager as of September 7, 2026.
Is Blacklist Manager still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on September 4, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Does Blacklist Manager have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 3 of 5 recent support threads for Blacklist Manager are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is Blacklist Manager free?
Blacklist Manager is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.
Where does Blacklist Manager rank among Checkout Plugins?
Blacklist Manager is #20 in the WordPress.org Checkout Plugins ranking.