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How Do I Prevent People From Stealing My Blog Designs?
First off, this really doesn’t happen too often and there has only been two instances where someone has stolen one of my designs; however, I must ask, how do I prevent people from stealing my blog designs?
Stealing a blog theme is very easy to do. Most of the design is all in the stylesheet. People can easily right click and view the source file to find the location of a css stylesheet and simply copy it.
One of the things that I commonly do to make it difficult for people to steal my own designs is by creating coding confusion. Meaning some of my themes have multiple css stylesheets and in many cases I hard code some of the css styling directly on the files, thus making it a nightmare to figure out and much less worth the person’s time towards stealing.
What are some other ways to help prevent people from stealing your blog theme design?
Garry Conn asked this questions on January 13th, 2009.
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Date/Time: 1-13-2009 19:23:29 Reference: #2578
Date/Time: 1-14-2009 01:46:24 Reference: #2627
WordPress is free. It was designed by geeks who decided to go Open source and they share everything for free.
Designers can create specific designs that have a cool look or function and they have the right to sell that and should have the right. If people want to buy them I would encourage that because it feeds the mill and rewards creativity.
I don’t think you can stop hackers from ripping off anything especially if the core is Open Source. I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.
Rich Hill
Date/Time: 1-14-2009 22:41:45 Reference: #2731
1. Remove all zipped versions of your themes on your “wp-content/themes” directory (I don’t know why people would put up .zip versions of their theme files instead of unzipping it and uploading).
2. Put up an “index.html” file in your theme’s folder saying something like “Go away, you moron!”.
That’s as far as I know. I’m not familiar with creating multiple stylesheets. I hope that helps.
Date/Time: 1-15-2009 02:16:32 Reference: #2760
That is more like .. undoing the purpose of stylesheet.
“some of my themes have multiple css stylesheets”
Increases load on server and rendering time on browsers.
Here are a set of simple ideas you can use:
1) use weird naming convention in your stylesheet so that it would be “nightmare” to make it work with sandboxes. But that will also make it less reusable.
2) prevent access to images in theme/images folder.
3) get your stylesheet copyrighted :D.
Date/Time: 1-15-2009 19:36:10 Reference: #2871