Disables right click context menu on images to help deter leeches from stealing images.
As of April 2026, No Right Click Images is a WordPress image plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 52 reviews. It has been downloaded 421K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Downloads are down 12% this week. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
The No Right Click Images Plugin Plugin uses JavaScript to change the right click action on IMG tags to disable the context menu. It disables the context menu on images only so other right click actions, such as links, should work normally.
Optionally the plugin can be disabled for logged in users.
Since it uses JavaScript, it targets more images than using plugins that filter pages and rewrite the tag. The plugin will find many images generated in scripts or pasted into posts and comments, that similar plugins will not find.
It is impossible to keep people from stealing images that appear in web pages, but this plugin will deter casual theft from surfers who do not want to interpret HTML or dig into the browser cache.
Smart Phone support is hit or miss. Some web pages rely very much on c…
It does what is expected of it. Simply.
I used to love this plugin, but now I see that when I am in Safari if I hold the option key it opens my image in a new tab which can then be downloaded. Bummer.
I know I can’t stop people stealing images, but this helps a lot. I can’t compare this to other similar plugins since it was the first I tried, but it does what it says it does, and no one can ask for more than that.
Easy to use and customize!
We will give you 5 Stars due to your honesty.
Your readme.txt is quite blunt, but it is also a breath of fresh air, since many promise tons of this or that and is pure propaganda.
Thank You.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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