Blacklist IP by Country is built around a simple promise: pick the countries you do not want to serve, save the list, and let the plugin drop matching requests at the front door. The configuration lives in wp_options under the plugin's own option keys, and per-hit counters track how many requests each rule has blocked since it was added.

The default admin presents that data one screen at a time. Operators see the country list on one tab and the recent block log on another, with limited cross filtering between the two. Anyone asking which countries actually triggered blocks this week, or which IPs from a country hit which URLs, falls back to scanning rows or exporting to CSV.

SleekView reads the rule list and the block log as paired sources. Each row carries the country code, the IP, the requested URL, the matched rule, and the timestamp. Saved views like Active rules with zero hits or Blocked traffic in the last hour replace flipping between tabs. The plugin keeps owning the block decision; SleekView only adds the queryable surface.

Blacklist IP by Country is doing the right thing at the right layer: dropping requests from countries the site does not serve before they reach PHP. The trouble is that the audit trail lives in two places, the option-stored rule list and the per-request block log, and the plugin admin shows them on different tabs. Anyone asking which rules actually fire, which countries hit which URLs, or which entries can be pruned without losing coverage ends up scanning rows by hand.

SleekView reads both surfaces as paired sources and renders them as one workspace inside WordPress. The plugin keeps owning the block decision, the country database, and the rule list. The team gets a triage surface with saved views, role scoping, and CSV exports that honour the active filter set, so the configuration finally has a workspace that matches the precision of the rules it stores.