Do you know that your wordpress themes can be copied easily? Yes, the horror. Anyone can download your theme (Even if you have paid for it) easily.. How? I actually don’t want to share that because it will exploit the bug. I did test it out though, and it was freakishly easy to get those themes.
Don’t get me wrong but I’m not going to use any of those wordpress themes.. I only wanted to test if that can actually happen. Anyway, I would highly recommend that you follow these steps to protect your wordpress themes.
1- Never copy the .zip file of your theme in your content folders
2- Make a HTML page with something like “Access Denied” or something and save it as Index.html. After that upload this index.html to your themes folder (Wp-content/Themes)
If the themes folder has a zipped version of your theme, then it can be downloaded. I had written about this few months back.
Exactly, Nirmal
I think it can be solved with chmod (maybe), I never try this before
well is there a way to protect own wordpress themes? I create wordpress themes for free but users delete my info on the bottom which is “theme created by bla bla”. They delete my link back and this makes all my work nonsense. I planned to obfuscate all the code with zend but this would make the theme unusable for some users. Anyone any idea?