{"id":252131,"date":"2025-09-14T15:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/dragonip\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:27:01","slug":"dragonip","status":"closed","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/dragonip\/","author":23366131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"version":"1.0","stable_tag":"trunk","tested":"6.8.5","requires":"5.0","requires_php":"7.4","requires_plugins":null,"header_name":"DragonIP","header_author":"CwmByte","header_description":"Mask admin user IP addresses - both historical data and future activity","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2025-09-14 15:27:01","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"https:\/\/cwmbyte.com\/","header_plugin_uri":"https:\/\/cwmbyte.com\/","header_author_uri":"","rating":0,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":0,"downloads":234,"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","changelog"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":[],"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":[],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":[],"screenshots":[]},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[83,1493,558,396,600],"plugin_category":[54],"plugin_contributors":[247833],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-252131","plugin","type-plugin","status-closed","hentry","plugin_tags-admin","plugin_tags-ip","plugin_tags-masking","plugin_tags-privacy","plugin_tags-security","plugin_category-security-and-spam-protection","plugin_contributors-cwmbyte","plugin_committers-cwmbyte"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/dragonip.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[],"raw_content":"<!--section=description-->\n<p>DragonIP protects administrator privacy by masking IP addresses throughout your WordPress installation. It can hide existing IP data and prevent future IP logging.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>What it does:<\/strong>\n* <strong>Historical Masking<\/strong> - Replace existing IP addresses with 127.0.0.1\n* <strong>Future Masking<\/strong> - Automatically mask new IP addresses for ongoing activity\n* <strong>Smart Detection<\/strong> - Works with comments, security plugins, and activity logs\n* <strong>Admin-Only<\/strong> - Secure interface restricted to administrators<\/p>\n\n<h3>Usage<\/h3>\n\n<h3>Historical IP Masking<\/h3>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Select the user to mask<\/li>\n<li>Choose which areas to mask (use \"Select All\" for convenience)<\/li>\n<li>Check the confirmation box<\/li>\n<li>Click \"Mask Historical IPs\"<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p><strong>\u26a0\ufe0f Warning<\/strong>: This permanently overwrites existing IP addresses. <strong>Backup your database first!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h3>Future IP Masking<\/h3>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Select the target user<\/li>\n<li>Click \"Enable Future Masking\" to activate<\/li>\n<li>Click \"Disable Future Masking\" to turn it off<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<h3>What Gets Masked<\/h3>\n\n<p><strong>Historical masking covers:<\/strong>\n- Comments\n- User meta data\n- Wordfence logs\n- Security plugins (Sucuri, MalCare, etc.)\n- Activity logs<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Future masking covers:<\/strong>\n- New comments\n- Login attempts\n- General activity logging<\/p>\n\n<h3>Important Notes<\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Always backup your database<\/strong> before running historical IP masking<\/li>\n<li>Historical masking <strong>permanently overwrites<\/strong> existing IP addresses<\/li>\n<li>All masked IPs are changed to 127.0.0.1<\/li>\n<li>Only administrators can access the plugin<\/li>\n<li>Works with most WordPress security and logging plugins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>\u26a0\ufe0f IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER<\/h3>\n\n<p><strong>DragonIP will PERMANENTLY OVERWRITE database data.<\/strong> This plugin modifies existing IP addresses in your WordPress database and cannot be undone.<\/p>\n\n<h3>\ud83d\udee1\ufe0f BEFORE USING THIS PLUGIN:<\/h3>\n\n<ol>\n<li><strong>BACKUP YOUR DATABASE<\/strong> - This is absolutely essential<\/li>\n<li><strong>Test on a staging site first<\/strong> - Never run on production without testing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Understand the risks<\/strong> - IP addresses will be permanently changed to 127.0.0.1<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<h3>\ud83d\udea8 NO UNDO FUNCTION:<\/h3>\n\n<p>Once you run historical IP masking, the original IP addresses are <strong>permanently lost<\/strong>. There is no undo feature. Always backup first!<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Use at your own risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DragonIP by <a href=\"https:\/\/cwmbyte.com\/\">CwmByte<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the <code>dragonip<\/code> folder to <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>Tools &gt; DragonIP<\/strong> in your admin panel<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<p><strong>1.0<\/strong>\n* Initial release\n* Historical IP masking functionality\n* Future IP masking capability\n* Support for major security plugins (Wordfence, Sucuri, MalCare, iThemes, etc.)\n* Admin-only interface with confirmation requirements\n* WordPress 5.0+ compatibility<\/p>","raw_excerpt":"Mask admin user IP addresses - both historical data and future activity","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/252131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252131"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/cwmbyte"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=252131"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=252131"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=252131"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=252131"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=252131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}