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How to protect your Wordpress Photos from theft.

This is directed at wordpress users because I cant stand blogspot. I mean, cough, I dont know much about it.

This morning while checking out a new stat tracker, I noticed that something of mine had been downloaded twice. When investigating further, I realized that two people had downloaded pictures of my daughter from my web page.

Protect your Images

Why? I am not sure. And it makes me sick to wonder.

I started doing some investigating on how I can better protect my images without branding them in their entirety across the photo. I don’t prefer the way it looks on my site to have a big MOMDOT running through the middle of the post. It feels more commercial then personal and that is not what I am going for when I am sharing photos from my life.

The simple solution would be a right click disable. But I also wanted the options for users to right click my banner codes on the site, so removing right click didn’t seem wise either.

I found this plugin called iProtect, located here, where you can install and it simply overlays your images with a transparent file. If someone right clicks your photo to save, it will save as a blank file.

So that photo looks like this if its saved:

transparentimage

See…blank. Nada. Nothing. No more Charlotte. Get off my blog.

Of course this wont stop the most savvy of Internet users if they are really interested in confiscating a photo from your page, but it will stop those that want a quick stealing solution and hopefully move them on from your page-without your child’s photo in tow.

~Trisha

About Trisha-admin

Trisha Haas is the head of MomDot; a sometimes controversial (but always fun!) mom blogger community. Trisha has a beautiful daughter, Charlotte and an often crazy (but lovable) husband named Chris. Her family encourages and inspires her to blog in this personal and professional online dialogue. You can follow Trisha on twitter @MomDotRocks.
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33 Comments

  • 30
    November 16, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Good to know! Just a great way to protect your babies and your work.

  • 29
    November 11, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Good for you Trisha! Anytime you post pics of your family (@extraordmommy would know from her CNN story like 6 months ago) you run the risk of getting them stolen by ANYONE. Way to take back control and take responsibility at the same time. And thanks for sharing!

  • 28
    November 8, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    I am all for putting my name on it.. I don’t feel like any right click or app will protect my photo. I’m sure someone can still just print screen and crop you know?

  • 27
    November 8, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Very creepy indeed! Too many scary people out there–I would never want my pictures stolen!

  • 26
    November 7, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Wow, that is cool how you could see that it was stolen! I’m a blogspotter so i know nothing about whatever cool sitetracker thingy you used. But check this out ladies, I hate to break this to you but you must know.

    There are certain programs that allow people to take a snapshot of those pics anyway (i.e. Windows Vista, add-ons in Firefox). I could easily do it with this whole webpage and crop the pic I wanted. (Not that I do that for theft purposes!!!! BTW.) But you need to know that your going to have to double up on protecting your pics. Do this by adding a signature or a watermark on those babies! Sorry. But the truth will set you free. :)

  • 25
    Sky
    November 7, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    I’m still figuring out Wordpress, so this could be user error on my part, but when I installed the plug-in it covered all of my photos and you could only see the left edge. Hmmmm….

    Do you know of any other photo proctection plug-ins?

  • 24
    Cat
    November 7, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Aww man. I installed the plugin but can’t use it. It completely messed up all of my image alignments for some reason.

  • 23
    November 7, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    That’s very creepy! Wished there was something like this for blogspot.

  • 22
    Cat
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Thanks so much for this Trisha, hopefully now I won’t see any of my pregnancy photos floating around.

  • 21
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Just installed it! Thanks Trisha =)

  • 20
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Thanks for the info. I’m off to check out the plug-in.

    It’s so scary to think about what someone would want with a pic of Charlotte.

  • 19
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Thats a scary thought! Thank you for the information.

    • 19.1
      November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

      What was the stat counter you were using that tells you they have been down; loaded? I would like to have that, I have pictures of my granddaughter all over my blog.

  • 18
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    I really wish this would work for blogspot! I NEED to find something. I hope this helps for you.

  • 17
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    So I’m guessing this is just another app blogger doesn’t offer yet.

  • 16
    Leann
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    I can’t right click to copy/paste the code for your banners on the right. :(

  • 15
    Leann
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    your site is right-click disabled. just fyi….

  • 14
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    I was able to still click on it, though. Were you preventing it from being downloaded, or clicked on?

    I think it has to do with the fact that she’s in fatigues, after yesterday’s tragedy :(

    • 14.1
      November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

      it can be clicked, it cannot be saved. It saves as a blank.

  • 13
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Thanks Trisha…off to get that plugin.
    Although I know they can easily grab it on a mac with a few buttons :(

  • 12
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Awesome! Thanks!

  • 11
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Thank you! I’m off to install now!

  • 10
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    I wish blogspot would come up with something like this. I don’t name my children but the thought of them taking my pics (((shudders))).

  • 9
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Thank you for sharing this!! Now I wont have to brand my pics anymore!

  • 8
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    This is a great plug in, really can come in handy. I totally agree with you about it being creepy to have someone download your kids photo. The plug is a great way to deter them, but it will ultimately do nothing to stop anyone from taking the images. If you disable right-click or use the plug in; you can still copy the image with Print Screen, then paste it, or on your laptop with FN and Prnt Scrn Keys and again pasting it. I am going to use the plug in, as many really do not know how to copy images other than right mouse click :)

  • 7
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Oh wow, this is awesome and so sad at the time — what is this world seriously coming to? People stealing pics of other people’s kids?! SICK!

    Thank you for this and I will be using it now too! :)

  • 6
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Awesome resource – thank you!

  • 5
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Awesome plug-in! Thank you!

  • 4
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Awesome! Thanks for telling us about it!

  • 3
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Oh wow Trisha, that sucks that someone had to steal your pictures. I’m always scared of this but I also hate having to add a water mark to my pictures . Thanks for posting this plug in information ! I’m on my way to download it now !

  • 2
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Great tip Trisha! I worry about using prt scr and copying that way as well. It’s sad we have to worry about this stuff!

  • 1
    November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Reply

    Awesome tip :) Glad to hear there is a way to stop it, at least some of them!

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