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Search WordPress. Description Prevent Direct Access PDA offers a simple solution to protect your WordPress files as well as prevent Google, other search engines and unwanted users from indexing and stealing your hard-to-produce ebooks, documents, and videos. You can protect unlimited file uploads with our PDA Lite alone.
Auto-generate Private URLs Once a WordPress file is protected, Prevent Direct Access will automatically generate a private download link containing a random string for you to access or share this private file with others. Prevent Image Hotlinking Our plugin also stops others from stealing and using your images on their website by linking them directly from your website, which could slow down your website significantly.
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Screenshots Once you have installed the plugin, click Activate Go to Media to protect your files. Prevent Direct Access works best on List View. Click on "Configure file protection" and start protecting your private file. Another popular solution is to force logging-in in order to download or print files. After pressing the Print or Save As button, a login window appears. Without filling it in with the correct data, the requested action will not be fulfilled.
It is another option that proves how important it is to give people the ability to show their appreciation. In this case, if users want to support you and your online activity, allow them to do something about it — e. And this will let you have control over your content.
In other words, do not show everything or mark what is yours. By enabling a preview of your file, you are giving users, for example, an introduction or table of contents. In this way, they are able to determine whether a given file contains what they are looking for or not.
If a specific user wanted to plagiarize or take credit for your creation, thanks to watermarks they would not be able to do so. A watermark is like a deed of ownership. Many users may choose not to download a given file if they see that they can only read it, instead of copy it. Try it out, and you will see that such a little change as adding a watermark can prevent your files from being plagiarised.
This solution requires at least basic HTML knowledge. How to make it disappear? What does this mean in practice? Unfortunately, there is still the ability to right-click and thus click Save As. There are also multiple solutions to prevent right-clicking to prevent saving or copying the link of a picture or file , but they may not be as intuitive or easy to use as the ones mentioned above.
Preventing your PDFs from unwanted downloads should be a priority. It is widely known that the Internet and copyright restrictions have quite a complicated relationship. Many people go unpunished after copying entire articles or files from different sites without mentioning the sources.
Being online gives users a feeling of anonymity, and although it is not actually true, many users forget about this fact. If you want to protect your files and what you have created, you can keep them safe by using any of the above solutions.
Then reactivate the plugin to disable them in the future. Please note, if you run a Regenerate Thumbnails plugin in the future, the thumbnail you created might be deleted. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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