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Want to disable right-click on WordPress to protect your content? \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Content theft has been around since the beginning of the internet. Whether you have a content-heavy website or an image-heavy site<\/a>, your online properties can be stolen with just a click. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, you can try to prevent this from happening by disabling right-click on your WordPress website. In this guide, you will learn how to do just that with the help of a plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u231b We’ll start with a quick discussion of the pros and cons of this method. Then, we’ll dig into the step-by-step tutorial. If you want to jump straight to the tutorial, just click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pros and cons of disabling right-click on WordPress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before we get to the tutorial, it\u2019s important to learn about the pros and cons of disabling right-click on your WordPress website. It\u2019ll help you figure out whether disabling right-click is the right thing to do for your website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t

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Pros \ud83d\udc4d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not uncommon to find a stolen piece of content ranking on the search engine while the original website is struggling to gain traction. By disabling the right-click you will deter thieves from stealing your content and images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Removing right-click can also prevent the malicious practice of image hotlinking<\/a>. It involves stealing your images and embedding them on a different website and using your server resources to display those images. This practice not only violates your copyright but also exhausts your server resources. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Cons \ud83d\udc4e<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Probably the biggest downside of disabling the right-click is ruining your visitor experience. In DIY blogs<\/a> like cooking and recipe sites, visitors like to copy content and save it or print it out. By disabling the right-click you are interfering with your site\u2019s user experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides copy-pasting, visitors may right-click on your site to access a tool. For instance, when I right-click on a website, I do it carry out a quick Google search or turn off the ad-blocker or check the word count of a page or enable Natural Reader<\/a> to read the paragraph aloud. <\/p>\n\n\n

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These are the pros and cons of disabling the right-click on your WordPress website. <\/p>\n\n\n

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IMPORTANT: <\/strong>After carefully considering the pros and cons, if you still want to disable right-click, go right ahead. But it\u2019s important to know that motivated users can get past the block<\/strong> by a JavaScript trick or just viewing your site’s source code.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In other words, it\u2019s not a full-proof way of protecting your content<\/a>. If someone is adamant about stealing your content, they will find a way. For instance, they can rewrite the content or take screenshots of your images to use them on their site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, many people still want to disable right-click on WordPress because it does make stealing your content a bit harder, especially for non-technical content thieves. <\/p>\n\n\n

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How to disable right-click in WordPress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can disable right-click in WordPress by using one of the following plugins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n