A complete list of anti-plagiarism and content-theft fighting WordPress plugins

Posted on July 24, 2007 at 8:38 pm

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A complete list of anti-plagiarism and content-theft fighting WordPress plugins

Earlier, I had written a post that tried to compile a complete list of SEO-related Wordpress plugins and since I found that list to be quite useful for myself, I thought I would write up a list of plugins that you can use to combat plagiarism and spam blogs (splogs). The reason I’m creating this list is because I am quite new to blogging and in the rat race to find good blog content, optimize the site, and market a blog, I left myself open to all kinds of content stealing attacks and eventually became the victim!

If you’re really thinking about being a serious blogger, then it’s a MUST to take some time out and secure your blog as much as you can from splogs or other content nabbers. Here’s a quick list of what I’ve found so far, pretty please comment if you know of more so that I can add them to the list.

Detecting & Fighting Plagiarism

1. AntiLeech - Prevents content theft by detecting splogs and producing a fake set of content for the spam blog. Regular users will see the normal content as will RSS aggregators. AntiLeech will add a small image to the feed of each post so that it can detect new agents taking your content. Very useful and one of the best. Download AntiLeech

2. Digital Fingerprint – Inserts a unique “digital” fingerprint created by the user into each blog post. The fingerprint is only visible in the RSS feed and it allows for the quick search of your fingerprint in Google, Yahoo and MSN. The plugin also gives you a list of resources that you can use to detect stolen content in other ways or what do to if your content is stolen. Download Digital Fingerprint

3. Bad Behavior – Analyzes HTTP requests to determine whether your feed is being accessed by a spam bot and then block access to the feed completely. Should be a little careful with this plugin as it might block legitimate feed readers. Download Bad Behavior

4. WP-Ban – Another plugin that bans users by IP address, host name, or referrer from visiting your blog. It will display a custom ban message to the blocked sites. Download WP-Ban

Creative Commons License

1. Creative-Commons-Configurator – Ability to easily set a Creative Commons license for your blog through a configuration page in the admin panel. The license can be added to any blog post page, Atom or RSS feed, or into the head section for search engine robots. Download Creative_Commons-Configurator

2. WP-License - Another plugin for teh Creative Commons license. This one only works on self-hosted WordPress blogs. Download WP-License

3. WP-CC – Allows of easy usage of the Creative Commons licenses in each of your blog posts with images or text. Also adds license information into the HEAD portion of the page. This one has not been updated since 2005. Download WP-CC

Copyright Notices & Disclosures

1. Blog Copyright – Displays a dated copyright mark on single posts and general, category, and archive queries. Completely customizable through tag parameters for name, copyright term and copyright text. Download Blog Copyright

2. Disclosure Policy – Can be used in a variety of ways, one of which is to write out some copyright information for your site at the bottom of your blog, including company name and a message. Download Disclosure Policy

Protecting Feed Content

1. © Feed – A more robust and useful plugin that allows you to add more than one type of item to your feed, including a copyright message, IP address of the feed, a digital fingerprint, comments and related posts. Download © Feed

2. Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter - A simple plugin that adds a copyright message to your feed items. No customization is required. Download Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin

3. Sig2Feed – A plugin that allows you to add a custom tagline, signature, or copyright message to your WordPress generated RSS feeds. Download Sig2Feed

4. FeedBurner FeedSmith WordPress plugin – Redirects your WordPress feed to FeedBurner and protects it from scrapers. Download FeedBurner FeedSmith

Third Party Proof of Copyright Tools

1. NUMLY ESN ID - Plugin that automatically requests an Electronic Standard Book Number (ESBN) from www.esmb.org and provides proof of copyright in real time. They act as electronic timestamps for your posts. Download NUMLY ESN ID

2. Registered Commons - An alternative to the NUMLY plugin that might be better. I know NUMLY only allows a certain number of posts to be registered for free, so check out this one as it might be free for all your posts. Download Registered Commons

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6 Responses to “A complete list of anti-plagiarism and content-theft fighting WordPress plugins”

Jonathan Bailey said on : July 24th, 2007 at 10:07 pm

First off, very good list. Some great plugins here including all of my favorites. I do have a few more you might want to add.

First, Registered Commons Plugin: http://www.registeredcommons.org/news/163/0/7877 as an alternative to the Numly plugin.

Second, WP-Ban: http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-ban.html An alternative way to ban scrapers.

Finally, the FeedBurner WordPress plugin: http://blogs.feedburner.com/fe.....rold_r.php to prevent scraping of the original feed and take advantage of FB’s “Uncommon Uses” feature if desired.

Hope that helps! You have a great list here with some new things for me to try out!

akishore said on : July 24th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

Thanks for the comment! Will add these three in tomorrow morning! Appreciate it!

Jonathan Bailey said on : July 26th, 2007 at 8:36 am

Welcome! Glad you found the suggestions useful! You have a great list here.

Steve said on : January 12th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

So with any of the above mentioned plug-ins/programs I’d be able to tell if someone simply copied and pasted an article of mine into their blog?

Because I’m pretty darn sure this has happened to me. I’m new at blogging so I hope to get a response here.

Thank you.

the_guv said on : January 9th, 2010 at 10:02 pm

nice list of WordPress plugins .. much appreciated.

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