Want to disable right-click on WordPress to protect your content? ?
Content theft has been around since the beginning of the internet. Whether you have a content-heavy website or an image-heavy site, your online properties can be stolen with just a click.
Fortunately, you can try to prevent this from happening by disabling right-click on your WordPress website. In this guide, you will learn how to do just that with the help of a plugin.
⌛ We’ll start with a quick discussion of the pros and cons of this method. Then, we’ll dig into the step-by-step tutorial. If you want to jump straight to the tutorial, just click here.
Pros and cons of disabling right-click on WordPress
Before we get to the tutorial, it’s important to learn about the pros and cons of disabling right-click on your WordPress website. It’ll help you figure out whether disabling right-click is the right thing to do for your website.
Pros ?
It’s not uncommon to find a stolen piece of content ranking on the search engine while the original website is struggling to gain traction. By disabling the right-click you will deter thieves from stealing your content and images.
Removing right-click can also prevent the malicious practice of image hotlinking. It involves stealing your images and embedding them on a different website and using your server resources to display those images. This practice not only violates your copyright but also exhausts your server resources.
Cons ?
Probably the biggest downside of disabling the right-click is ruining your visitor experience. In DIY blogs like cooking and recipe sites, visitors like to copy content and save it or print it out. By disabling the right-click you are interfering with your site’s user experience.
Besides copy-pasting, visitors may right-click on your site to access a tool. For instance, when I right-click on a website, I do it carry out a quick Google search or turn off the ad-blocker or check the word count of a page or enable Natural Reader to read the paragraph aloud.
These are the pros and cons of disabling the right-click on your WordPress website.
IMPORTANT: After carefully considering the pros and cons, if you still want to disable right-click, go right ahead. But it’s important to know that motivated users can get past the block by a JavaScript trick or just viewing your site’s source code.
In other words, it’s not a full-proof way of protecting your content. If someone is adamant about stealing your content, they will find a way. For instance, they can rewrite the content or take screenshots of your images to use them on their site.
That said, many people still want to disable right-click on WordPress because it does make stealing your content a bit harder, especially for non-technical content thieves.
How to disable right-click
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This article was written by Sufia Banu and originally published on ThemeIsle Blog.