{"id":54,"date":"2018-01-05T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/?p=54"},"modified":"2025-06-18T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:56:10","slug":"wildcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/faq\/wildcards\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ: Can I use wildcards when specifying sites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. The wildcard character (<code>*<\/code>) can be used match any number of characters <em>except<\/em> forward-slashes.<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>*.com<\/code> will block all dot-com sites.<\/li>\n<li><code>*.somesite.com<\/code> will block all subdomains of <em>somesite.com<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><code>*<\/code> on its own will block <em>all<\/em> sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that <code>*<\/code> will also match <em>no<\/em> characters (e.g., <code>foo*bar.com<\/code> will block <em>foobar.com<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>If you want to match any number of characters <em>including<\/em> forward-slashes, use a double-wildcard (<code>**<\/code>).<\/p>\n<p>If you want to match <em>one or more<\/em> characters, use a wildcard-plus (<code>*+<\/code>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. The wildcard character (*) can be used match any number of characters except forward-slashes. Examples: *.com will block all dot-com sites. *.somesite.com will block all subdomains of somesite.com. * on its own will block all sites. Note that * will also match no characters (e.g., foo*bar.com will block foobar.com). If you want to match &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/faq\/wildcards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FAQ: Can I use wildcards when specifying sites?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6LSwm-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/leechblock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}