Protecting my blog from copying
How do I protect my Wordpress.com blog from copying? Any idea.
Wow, Thanks Hemal Shah and Stagg Mann
Stagg Mann,
No - thanks to you, I only came to know about this now.
Starting a new post to avoid confusion.
Okay, so some of my myths were busted.
- You can disable right click by not using JavaScript
- You can disable text selection (CTRL + A)
- You can disable dragging and selection
To disable right click, add this to your BODY Tag
- <body oncontextmenu="return false;">
To disable Text Selection, add this to your BODY Tag
- <body onselectstart="return false;">
To disable Dragging Selection, add this to your BODY Tag
- <body ondragstart="return false;">
To do all three, or any two, do the following.
- <body oncontextmenu="return false;" ondragstart="return false;" onselectstart="return false;">
This will not mean that you can disable all means to copy the content, but only help in delay. The following are the other means for peole to copy and some tips on what can you do about it.
- View Source of the page
- This is a easily accessible method to copy.
- You can try to minify the HTML (reduce any extra space) to make it difficult.
- You can use encryption using basic methods
- You can use JavaScript to encrypt your HTML - however with JS disabled this will not work.
- Offline Website Readers / Website Downloaders
- Another method which allows to download your entire site, including themes
- You can set your server to not allow such automated downloads by disabling bots. I am still not aware how to do this, but if Google can do it for their servers, we too should be able to :)
Hemal the steps you mentioned are what I have used. Is that Javascript?
Ranjith I asked this on WP site help...they are saying for wp.com it can;t be disabled. only for wp.org. There r only two themes in wp.com that can disable right click..
That is coz Wordpress.com limits the usage of JavaScript.
All these days, I thought that official plugins are allowed on wp.com. 
And just 287 themes for wp.com? I didn't knew these things till now... 
@Ranjith one reason why new bloggers are going to Blogger.
@ND Thanks..but Tynt can't be used in Wordpress.com site...bad luck
@ PS You can use it. You will have to add that JS code to your template. In fact, it can be used on every web page and platform.
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My Kaspersky mistook Tynt to be a spam site and blocked it.
Ignore my previous reply. I was talking about Self Hosted Wordpress.
But, isn't it an easy thing to make a plugin for Tynt so that it can be used on wp.com sites also?
As i said earlier, Tynt wont help.
Nandini, Tynt helps to add the URL of the page to the manually copied content. But someone with wrong intentions would just remove link like a who-cares attitude.
hemal ...tynt wont stop...but it gives an idea what and how much is copied....though i'd like it to more expanded details.
Plagrism is something that we all have to deal with. Many a times, these sites are fake and just aggregators. They use your RSS feed and publish the data copied from your blog as it is.
Best way to takle these aggregators is to use a feed comment which declares that this post is originally hosted on so and so link. On Wordpress you can do that using "© Feed" Plugin.
Additionally, you can also put up a DMCA protected logo on your site to say your content is protected. This may deter them from doing so. A example will be my own blog.
For those Sourav Pandeys who manually copy your content and post it as theirs, the only respite is you file a complaint with Google and DMCA.
And yes, I have registered with the Creative Commons for CC 3.0 license (no copying, editing only sharing with credit) and Copyscape. I am not sure how effective they are but these are the only ways I know
I'm not sure if this will help to get rid of copycats or not but at least you'll be recognized as the owner of your writing by linking your blog with your Google+ profile. ANd in search results, a small profile pic will be displayed next to your link
hi..thanks for your reply. How do I disable right click please..
Partha nothing can stop anybody from copying but if you wish here is a tutorial for disabling the right click
> http://www.bloggertipandtrick.net/how-to-disable-right-click-in/
Disabling right click does not disable CTRL + C! It only disables the right click context menu.
If i select text and do a CTRL + C, the content is copied already - disabling right click will never help.
Hemal, we should disable text selection also. Do you know any method? 
Only way to do that is by Div Layer masking.. you put a layer above the content.. every time you try to copy, you are trying to copy the Div layer and not the content..
However this will mean you cannot click on links though..
In fact there is no way. Even if you disable right click, it can be enabled and then no one can prevent screenhots.
Aditya there is no way to stop copying except complaining to google if its a blogger
how to find good author rank??? is it same as gpr???
Authorship of content and gpr is different. GPR depends on the number of links to a page. Author Rank is not yet implemented ( I think ). If implemented it will depend on some factors which revolve around the articles written by you on the internet irrespective of the site on which you have written those articles.
is this the one >> https://plus.google.com/authorship
nop..but my thumbnail used to appear even before i added it in search results
Aditya, wondering why you said disabling right click leads to bad user experience. I have done the same, and have read elsewhere that its a bad user experience, but never elaborated on.
Stagg Mann : I personally don't like blogs with right click disabled. Many times, I select text on the web page, right click and Select 'Search Google for .... ' That won't work if right click is disabled. Also, you can't right click on a link and select 'Open in a new tab' ( Yes, the CTRL key is there but I prefer the mouse sometimes ) There may be many more things like this.
And, if someone is determined to copy, they can disable JS and copy....
mine right click is disabled and lifting off texts/images from my site has reduced almost 90%.... earlier everything used to be lifted off when i checked tynt.com
@ Nandini May be those people don't know how to disable JS. Don't worry... I'll teach them 
some people still do it sometimes
but percentage is low than before
Ranjith, you have a point with regards to user experience. But I never used javascript, I wrote a line of code into HTML (copied from somewhere of course). And in case of rightclicking to open a link, my links open in a new tab anyway. But anyway I have enabled rightclick again. Though the drag option is still disabled- the one where you hold down the left mouse button to highlight text.
Stagg, you cannot disable right click without using JavaScript.
@Ranjith- Don't tell me
. That return on context menu = false waala line is JS? I got that off a webpage titled "how to disable rightclick without using JS"
SM - The code to disable does not work on IE 9 and on Chrome. I am able to do a right click.
@Ranjith - this JS also makes copying content difficult, you cannot do it but still click links.
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<script type="text/javascript">var a=navigator,b="userAgent",c="indexOf",f="&m=1",g="(^|&)m=",h="?",k="?m=1";function l(){var d=window.location.href,e=d.split(h);switch(e.length){case 1:return d+k;case 2:return 0<=e[1].search(g)?null:d+f;default:return null}}if(-1!=a[b][c]("Mobile")&&-1!=a[b][c]("WebKit")&&-1==a[b][c]("iPad")||-1!=a[b][c]("Opera Mini")||-1!=a[b][c]("IEMobile")){var m=l();m&&window.location.replace(m)};</script><script type="text/javascript">if (window.jstiming) window.jstiming.load.tick('headEnd');</script></head><body class='loading' ondragstart='return false' onselectstart='return false'>
Any thoughts on how to reuse this?
Oops! @Ranjith The JS is not needed.. cant edit my entry now, else could have removed it.. Ignore the JS... Just add the following to your body and you cannot try to select your content.. You cannot select it...
<body ondragstart='return false' onselectstart='return false'>
However, you can go to the view source and still copy text.. It is still not fool-proof yet but a good way to not letting people to select the text. This does not help for images, as you can still right click and save images. For Images, we can probably use a Div layer mask...
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