Have you ever thought of copyright content on WordPress?
It’s not hard to do, and it could keep your work safe from bad guys.
The simplest system that these “content thieves” use is certainly the copy-paste.
They find interesting content and in an instant… bam !
They select everything and paste into their website.
Here is a new article ready to be published and shared.
It’s important protect your content as soon as possible!
Before Google notices that your content has been duplicated, and truly understands that yours is the original, it will take some time.
So, in the meantime, they will make themselves beautiful with YOUR job, and even without your knowledge!
On the other hand, even if they themselves were to run into a penalty for duplicate content , they could still continue to share the shamelessly copied text pretending to be the real authors.
Stealing content from a website is a crime of plagiarism, yet these web criminals certainly don’t have many qualms. You really need to protect yourself!
How to protect the copyright of content on WordPress
If you are wondering then how to do a protect your content on WordPress, here is a quick and practical solution.
This is a very useful plugin and very simple to set up.
Its purpose is to disable the selection and copy functionality from the browser, so that anyone who visits your page will not be able to select, copy, or drag images to paste them into a folder.
Let’s see how it works.
WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click
The plugin I want to introduce to you is called WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click .
There protection of your content it is guaranteed by a system that combines JavaScript and CSS, so your copyright is absolutely safe.
There are two versions of the plugin, one free and one pro. The free version allows you to:
- protect your content from selection and copying;
- block copying of images;
- prevent right-clicking;
- lock hot keys such as CTRL + A (select all command) or CTRL + C (copy command).
If a user tries to copy your content or right-click, they will see an error message.
With the Pro version you can also use more advanced features:
- show warning messages if someone tries to copy your content;
- exclude some pages from protection;
- exclude users with the Administrator role from protection;
- add a watermark to your images …
The configuration is extremely simple, since everything is already set up by default.
Let’s see the settings screen together.
Here you will activate the protection of the posts, the homepage and the static pages (as you can see, by default everything is already activated) and you can customize the error message.
In the Premium Right Click Protection tab , even if you don’t have a Premium account, you can still disable right-clicking on posts, homepage and pages.
If a site has copied your content
If you are using this tool because you have already fallen into the trap and someone has copied your content, you will need to immediately save a proof of the crime, for example by taking screenshots of the copied pages, contact the site administrator to request immediate removal of the content , and, if necessary, also send a report to Google.
Content copyright protection and SEO
You may be wondering “But what will become of my website’s SEO?
If I prevent the content from being copied, will Google also have trouble retrieving my page information?
Will I lose positions?
Will my site be removed from the index? “
Don’t worry, there is nothing to be afraid of!
Google works only on HTML code, while this plugin uses combined techniques of JavaScript and CSS, so it will not affect your SEO in any case.
Google will happily continue to have access to all your content and index your pages as before.
Furthermore, being a fairly widespread plugin, it is certainly in the interest of developers to keep updating it often to keep up with the latest versions of WordPress and with the news regarding security.
Conclusion
Now you have seen that protect the copyright of your content with WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click it is very easy and does not require special skills, since it practically does everything by itself.
Now that you start protecting your work, you can sleep much more soundly!
Do you think you will use this system to protect your content?
Or do you know better ones?
