If you’re smart, if you stay on top of your website, and if you read this simple guide you have a great chance to protect your content from being stolen, or getting copied.
What will be your reaction if you came to know that one of your site’s content has been copied to another website without your permission? Of course, this is the most annoying situation for you and for every website owners.
Therefore, most of the site owners are following several handful tricks to protect their content from the people who are stealing their content as soon as it gets published. One of the effective ways of protecting the content is by making the use of purpose-oriented WordPress plugins.
Top 7 WordPress Plugins to Protect Your Content
In this blog post, we will look at some of the incredible WordPress plugins that will help you protect your content from being stolen, or getting copied.
So, let’s begin with the most powerful plugin:
01. Opt-In Content Locker for WordPress
Price: $ 17
It is a great premium plugin that will allow site owners to lock the content on their WordPress site. The best thing about this plugin is that the content will be displayed only to the subscribed users.
Well, it is a very simple plugin as you only need to cover the protected content with shortcodes [optinlocker]…[/optinlocker]. If a user wants to see this content, then they have to submit their name or email. After this, the user will be able to view the locked content easily.
To an addition, all the submitted data is stored in a database or can be re-submitted to AWeber, GetResponse, Campaign Monitor, MailChimp, etc.
02. WP Content Protection
Another robust WordPress plugin that will help you protect your content, without any membership. It is a very simple, easy-to use and useful plugin that will allow you to protect your blog posts and articles in a best possible way.
However, the WP content protection plugin follows three different ways to protect your content (all are effective):
- Content protection by password.
- Protection by logged in user
- Content protection by User roles
In fact, it let you add content protection module on any post, page or custom post type. You can even apply any one method or all (mentioned above in this point) in a post.
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03. Secure Copy Content Protection
The Secure Copy Content Protection is an ideal WordPress plugin that helps at protecting your content from being stolen or plagiarized. This plugin is very easy to install.
This plugin prevent content theft by disabling the right click, content selection, copy paste, and shortcut keys related to copying. Secure Copy Content Protection not only protect your content from being plagiarized but also it prevent web scraping which are very popular these days.
The Secure Copy Content Protection plugin basically adds a built-in copyright protection to your articles and blog post. This easy to use feature-rich WordPress plugin can be installed within few seconds. So, you will have a protected site and free of plagiarism.
Basic features
- Content copy protection
- Notification text
- Disable left click & right click
- Block Developer Tools
- Disable Drag/Drop
- Blocked shortcut keys: CTRL+C, CTRL+V, CTRL+X, CTRL+S, CTRL+A, F12
- Disable shortcut keys for all web browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Firefox.
- Style settings
04. WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click
It is one of the most popular WordPress plugin, used to protect content from being copied by another site.
This is a very simple, useful and powerful free plugin that will keep your posts and home page secured by various advanced techniques such as JavaScript and CSS. It simply protects your content from selection and copy. In fact, it makes your job easy by protecting your posts without even howling at your readers. Let’s explore other features of WP content Copy Protection & no right click plugin:
- Restricts users to save images from your site
- No right click or context menu option
- Display alert message
- User-friendly Admin panel and lot more.
Note: It also offers an easy to use pro version to give you more advanced features and function that you will use for protection your content from being copied to other site.
05. Smart Content Protector
Price: $ 18
Smart Content Protector is an incredible premium WordPress plugin that will let you protect your site’s text and images.
It is an easy-to-install plugin as it works automatically after you activate the plugin. Smart Content Protector also offers lots of advanced features such as Text protection to disable the shortcut keys (ctrl + c) for copying the test. It also comes with an Image protection feature used to disable the image dragging and original image to view options. Plus, it also offers other exciting features such as:
- Image Watermark
- Text highlighting option
- Log IP Addresses that copied content
- Disable right click for Internal/External links
- Supported for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, etc.
06. Simple Feed Copyright
This is our last WordPress content protection plugin that lets you add a copyright notice at the end of your blog posts and articles in full-text RSS feeds, along with the back links to the blogs and original content.
However, it becomes essential to add a copyright notice at your blogs as your feeds get distributed across the web for free, and is re-published without your permission. With this plugin, the RSS scrapers will link back to your site that will display your blog or article was the original source.
07. Content Protector
The Content Protector is one of the most powerful WordPress plugins that allows the website owners to password-protect a part of a Page or Post.
It protects the content of your Page or Post section, where the users need a password to see or edit that content. It works by adding a short code in order to guard the content that you want to protect. So, a user needs to fill an access form with the correct password if he wants to see the protected content.
It also allows you to build multiple protected sections on a single post. You can also see the protected content inline through AJAX or by reloading the entire page.
For more protection, you can also set custom passwords or use a CAPTCHA to authorize your potential visitors.
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