How to protect your website content from theft

Aany owners of content sites, whether news, educational, or explanation sites, want to protect the content of their sites from theft and not allow any other site to copy their content without their permission, whether they carry out this process of plagiarism manually or rely on some programs that copy the content. Fully.

Therefore, if you are the type of person who is keen on protecting the content of his site, you can do this procedure through your WordPress site in more than one easy way, and this is what we will explain in this article.

Prevent copying of content by adding CSS codes

Some of the following CSS code can be added to prevent any content thief from being able to copy by adding the following codes, which are codes used with most browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Edge)

You can add this code through WordPress by going to the submenu of Appearance and choosing Customize as follows

The Template Customization menu will appear, then choose additional formats (CSS).

If this is your first time adding CSS codes, the following presentation screen will appear, so click Close

Then, the place for editing codes will appear for you, in which you will write the code that we mentioned previously, then press the button: Publish

This prevents any hacker from copying the content of your site in the known way, and although there are some circumvention methods that hackers use, you will reduce the number of copying operations well in any case.

Prevent copying of content via an add-on

You can also prevent copying of content by adding WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click , which helps you get a higher ability to limit copying operations by allowing the visitor to click on the right and get a pop-up menu, and thus this procedure effectively limits the copying process. better.

After you install and activate the add-on , you will find the Copy Protection tab as follows

If you go to this tab, you will find the extension settings as follows:

1.  “Basic settings” which contain the following: First, enable the prevention of theft of posts 
2.  Enable page theft prevention 
3.  Prevent static page theft, such as home page or other pages
4. To show or hide the plugin icon in the top bar of WordPress, to enable or disable the plugin while logged in as the site administrator
5. You can show a message to the thief that he cannot copy
6. A message can also be shown to the copier that the page cannot be printed

After that, you will find the second tab that prevents menus from appearing while clicking on any links, such as links to posts, home page, and static page  

There are special methods through additional CSS codes that can be enabled through the plugin. These codes also help reduce the chances of copying the content if the copyist disables the JavaScript feature in the browser.

There are other plugins that can do the same job of preventing copying of your site’s content, such as:

• WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click
• Opt-In Content Locker
• Secure Copy Content Protection and Content Locking

Other methods to prevent theft and copying of your site content 

Methods other than self-protection of the site can be used by what we mentioned previously, such as the following:

• Posting a message: All rights reserved. Copying the content is prohibited without permission from the writer or the site administration. If you violate this, you will be subject to legal liability.

• Submit a report to Google to delete the stolen content, but you must take some measures first, such as that you must archive your site as soon as possible so that Google knows that you are the owner of the main article. This is a trick that copyists resort to by tracking sites that do not archive immediately in order to steal exclusive content, after you have done the archiving process. If your site is stolen, you can file a complaint with Google and fill out the following form ( report copyright infringement ) 

This method may be better for you than the previous methods that prevent the visitor from simply highlighting the content, even if it is for the purpose of easy follow-up while reading and not for the purpose of copying.

Conclusion

Content theft is considered a major problem for any site, as it leads to the loss of the efforts of many, but some important points must also be taken into consideration, which is that many researchers may need to copy some of the content to contribute to their research by way of citation, and they often add references to the site from which it is quoted, and this may It is useful for both researchers and content creators, so the decision is up to you. Do you want the content of your site to be available for copying with your reference, or do you want to prevent it from being copied completely?

Note also that the Google search engine is well aware of plagiarized content, and prevents its article from being ranked, or at least from appearing in the last ranks, which users often do not reach or pay attention to