Grade A

Secure Copy Content Protection and Content Locking

Name: Secure Copy Content Protection and Content Locking
Rating: 4.2 (61 reviews)
Author: Ays Pro

⤓ Download v5.1.6 on WordPress.org ↗

by Ays Proupdated 2026-05-27✨The Quiet Achiever

It stops casual copycats but fails against a determined user.

HealthyDeclining

77/100

The plugin offers helpful support and basic protection despite bugs that prevent settings from saving.

Loved24/40

Trustworthy14/15

Fair & Honest14/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum7/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

Show the snippet

document.addEventListener('contextmenu', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); });

document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
    var blocked = [
        e.ctrlKey && ['c','v','x','s','a','u','f','p','h','l','k','o'].includes(e.key.toLowerCase()),
        [123, 114, 120, 117].includes(e.keyCode) // F12, F3, F6, F9
    ];
    if (blocked.some(Boolean)) e.preventDefault();
});

document.addEventListener('selectstart', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); });
document.addEventListener('dragstart',   function(e) { e.preventDefault(); });
document.addEventListener('copy',        function(e) { e.preventDefault(); });

Keep in mind:The Pro features (IP blocking, country blocking, paywalls, watermarks, MailChimp integration) are not replicated by this snippet.

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Active installs

~41,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+

Rating

4.2★

61 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

-5%

Declining

346 → 330 installs/day

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Declining · -5% in the last year

346/day a year ago→330/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Secure Copy Content Protection is a straightforward content-locking plugin that works well for basic protection needs and earns praise for responsive support, but faces recurring criticism over settings not saving properly and fundamental doubts about whether its protections can be bypassed by determined users.

What people like

+Effective at core content protection tasks, including disabling print (shows blank page) and right-click×4
+Support team is responsive and helpful, including providing patches for reported bugs×3
+Generous number of free features
+Email wall feature allows collecting email addresses before revealing protected content

Common complaints

−Settings/options do not save — checkboxes revert to unticked after a page refresh, making the plugin non-functional for some users×2
−Browser-level protections (print, save page, developer tools, view source) can still be accessed via browser menus, limiting real-world effectiveness×2
−Protection can be trivially bypassed by screen capture apps, browser cache, or download tools — right-click blocking alone is insufficient
−Email wall does not remember returning users, requiring them to re-submit their email on every visit
−Mailchimp integration setup is unclear — both Username and API key fields are required but this is not communicated in the UI
−No support for protecting content on search result pages; custom post type handling is inconsistent in the settings UI
−Support documentation is sparse and unhelpful

Review trustReviews look organic

4.19★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 61 total

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Latest reviews · 61 analyzed

2026-02-26★★★★★Does what it needs to palladiangroup
2025-11-11★★★★★Works as Intended Caitriona
2025-10-16★★★★★Paramètres non enregistrés michelswiss
2025-04-21★★★★★otimo funciona perfeito renats
2025-04-08★★★★★Great Support! Love the plugin!Gsk8
2024-12-18★★★★★it's not even work Anonymous User
2024-11-22★★★★★No copy protection here!Kendo2
2024-08-14★★★★★Best!!!Niharika Verma
2024-04-17★★★★★Great Plug-in c0merun
2024-03-26★★★★★Cool iamwpuser

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-05-27v5.1.6
2026-05-19v5.1.5
2026-05-12v5.1.4
2026-05-05v5.1.3
2026-04-28v5.1.2
2026-04-22v5.1.1
2026-04-14v5.1.0
2026-04-07v5.0.9

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

307

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

366

Prior 7-day baseline

294

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

7,575

Mean release-day peak (30d)

298

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-16.1%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

15%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

1.32

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

72%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.25 → 4.19★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered