How to protect your wordpress themes

Posted by MoiN 19 June, 2008

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.

Wordpress Theme

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)

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Comments
June 24, 2008

If the themes folder has a zipped version of your theme, then it can be downloaded. I had written about this few months back.

Posted by Nirmal
June 24, 2008

Exactly, Nirmal :)

Posted by Moin
June 26, 2008

I think it can be solved with chmod (maybe), I never try this before

Posted by Andos
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