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Locking the text in my website!

by Go4DBest
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Greetings!

I wanted to ask you if it's possible to lock the text in my wordpress website so the text can't be highlighted, copied, and pasted somewhere else by someone.

Is this a good idea?

Is there a plugin for this or a script?

Your help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
G.B.
#locking #text #website
  • Profile picture of the author zimzalabim
    This might hit the spot for you:
    WordPress › WP-CopyProtect [Protect your blog posts] « WordPress Plugins
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    • Profile picture of the author Bence Ur
      You can do this with javascript, if you would like to annoy your visitors. This is a very bad idea in terms of usability.

      If they disable javascript, they can copy the text. Or if they look at the source code.

      May I give you an advice? Just don't worry about this thing at all. If someone wants to steal your stuff, he will do it, you cannot prevent it (including your paid digital products, not just the text on your website). It is the nature of the internet.

      Use the Creative Commons license: people can copy your stuff, but at least they must use attribution. For example Wikipedia uses the CC license, and it is the 6th most visited website in the world.
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        If they really want your text they can always take a screenshot and rewrite it. Having no right click enabled just irritates the snot out of your visitors. You are probably better off creating even more content and giving it away to build up your expert status.
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        • Profile picture of the author Tim3
          [QUOTE=JMichaelZ;8747553 . Having no right click enabled just irritates the snot out of your visitors.[/QUOTE]

          This ^^

          Right click prevention is useless. The people most likely to steal your content are those who know how to use a dev tool like Firebug.

          As I understand there is a way to completely block the source from showing in a browser, but I think you would need the help of a webdev or coder to do this.

          A better bet is to use a Google Authorship link on all your content, then get it indexed PDQ, so Big G knows the original source.
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      • Profile picture of the author AffScot
        Originally Posted by Bence Ur View Post

        May I give you an advice? Just don't worry about this thing at all. If someone wants to steal your stuff, he will do it, you cannot prevent it (including your paid digital products, not just the text on your website). It is the nature of the internet.
        I'd agree with this advice above. If you're concentrating on this, then you must not be making enough money in your business? Just a thought...

        If you're making plenty of money in your business then follow the advice below:

        Originally Posted by brux View Post

        The only way you may protect your text is adding a copyright.
        Later, you may search your text via google and put to shame people that used it without your agreement.
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  • Profile picture of the author brux
    Originally Posted by Go4DBest View Post

    Greetings!

    I wanted to ask you if it's possible to lock the text in my wordpress website so the text can't be highlighted, copied, and pasted somewhere else by someone.

    Is this a good idea?

    Is there a plugin for this or a script?

    Your help will be very much appreciated.

    Thanks,
    G.B.

    The only way you may protect your text is adding a copyright.
    Later, you may search your text via google and put to shame people that used it without your agreement.

    All program tools are ineffective and won't help you even a bit.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bence Ur
      Originally Posted by brux View Post

      The only way you may protect your text is adding a copyright.
      Later, you may search your text via google and put to shame people that used it without your agreement.

      All program tools are ineffective and won't help you even a bit.
      So what will you do if you find out that 10 other websites stole your content? Will you hire an attorney to sue 10 people? Not so cost effective.

      This is just a waste of time, no need to worry about this at all.

      This very popular blog is in the public domain: http://zenhabits.net/uncopyright/
      This means you could take all the articles on that blog, package them into an ebook and sell it for money totally legally. And so what?

      copyright hasn’t helped me, and uncopyright hasn’t hurt me. If someone feels like sharing my content on their blog, or in any other form for that matter, that’s a good thing for me. If someone wanted to share my ebook with 100 friends, I don’t see how that hurts me. My work is being spread to many more people than I could do myself. That’s something to celebrate, as I see it.
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      • Profile picture of the author brux
        Originally Posted by Bence Ur View Post

        So what will you do if you find out that 10 other websites stole your content? Will you hire an attorney to sue 10 people? Not so cost effective.

        This is just a waste of time, no need to worry about this at all.

        This very popular blog is in the public domain: Uncopyright : zenhabits
        This means you could take all the articles on that blog, package them into an ebook and sell it for money totally legally. And so what?
        On my opinion if I find 10 people that share my content, I'd be proud that I'm popular

        If to take it serious, I understand that exist types of content that people may pay for and if it is being shared left and right, this content is not a secret anymore.


        But you should understand - this is specific of internet business:

        1. all really interesting ideas you share with the others are distributed around virally.
        2. 99.9999% of ideas you think are original, were used somewhere by someone. So your content most probably is not totally original.
        3. try to profit from shared content.
        4. And always keep working on new things to leave behind your competitors - another internet specific. This way you may always issue new things and make your bulk of money on them.
        5. if you write content just for SEO, don't worry about your content, if google indexed it on your website FIRST. Later, even if stolen and re-published hundreds of times google won't index it any more.
        6. If you think your content is very specific and original - try to profit from this: publish this content in a protected area and ask people for their email address to get to this protected area.
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  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    I used to belong to a forum belonging to E. Brian Rose, and he had that preventing copy paste option on the forum. When ever we needed to copy something for noties, all we did was go to the source code and copy that. It just ain't worth the trouble to prevent it. If someone wants it, they will find a way.
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  • Profile picture of the author eXacta
    OP, head over to tynt.com and sign up for a free account.

    Tynt is a free tool aimed at increasing your websites exposure as people copy and paste your content.

    What it won't do is stop people from from copying and pasting your content BUT it appends the source URL of the content (which of course is your website) as a hyperlink.

    What's cool is that as people copy and share your content on their blog or facebook page, they are in essence, creating a backlink to your website. If they share the content via email again there's a link at the end which the recipient may well click on - BOOM instant traffic!

    Of course, the link could be removed BEFORE the content is shared and there's be no link to your site but as has been said above, nothings foolproof.

    Tynt however, is a great tool, it will result in additional backlinks / traffic and above all it's free (and there's a pretty cool dashboard with analytics)
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    • Profile picture of the author zimzalabim
      Originally Posted by eXacta View Post

      OP, head over to tynt.com and sign up for a free account.

      Tynt is a free tool aimed at increasing your websites exposure as people copy and paste your content.

      What it won't do is stop people from from copying and pasting your content BUT it appends the source URL of the content (which of course is your website) as a hyperlink.
      For WordPress users, there is a plug-in which does essentially the same thing. Inserts source URL if text is copied/pasted. Here it is:
      WordPress › CopyLink « WordPress Plugins
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan Thomas
    I've seen that on a lot of news sites, eXacta...never even thought about doing it myself. Thanks for the link!
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