With this plugin you can disable right click on your images with a custom message!
As of April 2026, Photection is a WordPress images plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 15% this week. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
Photection is a plugin to help you prevent image theft by disabling right click on images on your site, without an impact on site usability (right clicks on everything else will still work!).
When an user right-clicks on your image, a small (customizable) message will appear telling him that the image is copyrighted.
Please keep in mind, that no plugin will ever make your images 100% secure.
There will always be advanced techniques to steal your images, no matter what you do or which plugin you use. Here is an article about image protection online, you can read that to learn more.
That said – there is no reason why you should make it easy to save your images, and this plugin is designed to do just that.
This plugin requires at least PHP 5.3.29
It works so fine, no crash, no errors. And so simple. Should be on your “usefull plug-in list” always.
Leaves your site visitor with their context right click options except on your site images. Sweet!
Works like described and you can add a custom message that shows up when someone tries to right click on image
| WordPress | 4.5.0+ requiredTested up to 4.6.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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