Disable Right Click on Images in WordPress and protect your copyrighted images from internet surfers.Whenever copyrighted images are used in posts and pages on your blog, then chances of stealing them are high. You need to do something to protect those images from content scrappers and this tutorial will help you to disable right click on images in WordPress.
Why to Disable Right Click on Images in WordPress?
Main reason is to protect copyrighted images used on your blog from getting stolen. The most easiest way to steal any image is by saving it to desktop using options in the right-click context menu. In some cases, images in blog posts are dragged and dropped to the desktop, so there is a need to control this option also.
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How to Disable Right Click on Images in WordPress?
We have found one great plugin that really helps to fix the issues mentioned above and will disable right click on images in WordPress.
Download and install “No Right Click Images Plugin”. Check how to install WordPress plugin for detailed information and how-to guide.
After done with the installation, go to the settings page (included in new version of this plugin) and you can notice these useful options.
This plugin uses JavaScript to disable right-click context menu on images only, so right-click on other parts in your content will display the context-menu normally.
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Replace Image on Right Click: When this option is enabled, it will replace the target image with a default one. Test this option and use only if it doesn’t messes up with other things on your blog.
Prevent Drag and Drop: Easily disable the Drag and Drop functionality by checking this option box. Recommended to use this, so that you can prevent drag and drop of images on to desktop.
All for Logged in Users: Another great option available in this plugin is, you can allow logged in users to copy images by enabling the right click for them, useful for multi-author blogs.
As of now, this is the most useful plugin to disable right click on images and if we find any others, will include them in this article.
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Final Words on Protecting Images
There is no guarantee of completely protecting images, but following this method will surely harden the way. There are other methods like using browser extensions, digging the cached pages etc to steal the images.
So if you really want to protect your images, then the only possible way is through watermarking them. Simple add a watermark logo to the images before using them on posts and pages in your WordPress website.
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ohh nice plugin , I tried to disable my blog right click last time when my blog got hacked but i remove that it irritates me but now it’s better way to just protect images nice share
Don’t you think this will be annoying for visitors?
Certainly not, it surely helps to protect copyrighted images to some extent.
Yup, Recently I discovered someone was stealing one of my compilation. Though I changed the URL of all the Images in the compilation but this can happen again. Is there any way to disable right click in particular wrap ?
I Can Finally Stop People From Stealing My Images
Yes, very useful and handy plugin to stop people from stealing images in blog posts.
Wow, that’s really a great plugin. I will install it right away on my blog, so that I can get rid of the copiers who often steals my blog’s images. Thanks for this post buddy.
Glad you like this plugin and yes we can get rid of image thefts to some extent.
Good plugin. But what if somebody could do Inspect Element and steal the image from the local cache. I think flash is the only thing that protects to this extend. Are there good Flash Gallery plugins in wordpress?
Hi Rajan, thanks for dropping by. We cant completely control scrappers from stealing images. If we use Flash Gallery plugin, then they will take screenshots of the images.
How can I right-click protect my images on my blog on WordPress.com? Mt blog is text and image heavy and I’m seeing people using my images right, left and centre.
Thanks in advance:)