teamamy

Hi Samuel,

I’ve reviewed those two plugins before and they are both moderately effectual at best.

The base function of WordPress should prevent image lifting. This not only protects the WP community as a whole, but it also protects the hundreds or thousands of sites who are defined at Photo and Image sites.

In addition, none of the solutions prevent direct access to the images. Another area that WP should handle directly.

People should not have to search for mediocre ways to prevent IP theft. It really should be a given.

Perhaps this feature could be added to a future release?

True, but it would stop 95% of the attempts and show due diligence.

Just because there are those with advance skill sets is no excuse not to try and secure WordPress or the websites. If that logic is correct, then why do we even bother to secure our websites at all. Those who know how to hack into them will…

I see what you are saying, but legally, it won’t fly.

Getty/ThinkStock, and others.

Just because you can lift the images from their sites does not mean much, as they are their images. When they are lifted from my site, I am the steward who failed to restrict them. And they let that be known.

My Firefox works well, but it gives formatting problems under my MSIE V7. I do not have V8 installed on my machine. I know that there are some distinct problems with some themes and the two releases of MSIE.

What version are you using?

Hi,

I’m getting the same problem, is there a solution?

I’ve stess tested plugins and would like to offer my ratings, but I can’t.

Regards,
Amy

@gdhosting
It looks as though GD2 support is installed on the server. There seems to be some type of problem with the WPMU Super Captcha plug-in. I’m waiting for the developer to sign onto my site and run some tests to debug the problem.

@gdhosting

I have to use the info.php method as the CGI interface did not give me extended information.

In the gd subset, here’s what was displayed:

gd
GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.2.1
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled
XBM Support enabled

Now I’m at a loss as to why Super Captcha thinks I am not GD2 compliant?

Regards,
Amy

Hi GDHosting.

I didn’t want to put the phpinfo file in the root directory to I went to Hosting Control Center > CGI Admin > PHP which resulted in the following:

PHP Version: 5.2.8
Build Date Dec 18 2008 16:13:09

Configure Command ‘./configure’ ‘–enable-fastcgi’ ‘–prefix=/usr/local/php5’ ‘–with-config-file-path=/web/conf’ ‘–disable-posix’ ‘–enable-bcmath’ ‘–enable-calendar’ ‘–with-curl=/usr/bin/curl’ ‘–with-gdbm’ ‘–enable-exif’ ‘–enable-ftp’ ‘–with-gd’ ‘–with-freetype-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-jpeg-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-png-dir=/usr/bin/libpng-config’ ‘–enable-gd-native-ttf’ ‘–with-gettext’ ‘–with-mcrypt=/usr/bin/libmcrypt-config’ ‘–with-mhash’ ‘–with-mysql=/usr’ ‘–with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config’ ‘–with-openssl’ ‘–with-pdo-mysql=/usr’ ‘–with-pspell’ ‘–enable-soap’ ‘–enable-wddx’ ‘–with-xsl’ ‘–with-zlib’ ‘–enable-mbstring’ ‘–enable-zip’

Server API CGI/FastCGI
Virtual Directory Support disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path /web/conf
Loaded Configuration File /web/conf/php5.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files (none)
additional .ini files parsed (none)
PHP API 20041225
PHP Extension 20060613
Zend Extension 220060519
Debug Build no
Thread Safety disabled
Zend Memory Manager enabled
IPv6 Support enabled
Registered PHP Streams zip, php, file, data, http, ftp, compress.zlib, https, ftps
Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls
Registered Stream Filters string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, convert.iconv.*, zlib.*

I’m not seeing a reference to the GD2 library anywhere in this result set. Would you be able to decipher if GD2 is on, based off of my output above?

If so, then I am at a loss as to why I am being notified that I’m missing PHP support?

Thanks,
Amy

Hi Guys,

There is another update for this post:

To successfully mask a www.remarpro.com install that was installed in a subdirectory:

1) Perform the login.php steps at top.
2) Use the Theme My Login plugin.
3) Use the Theme My Profile plugin from the same author.
4) Donate to this author because he’s coming out with some good stuff and we want to keep him contributing for the good of us all.

Thanks and xoxo,
Amy

Hi Guys,

I found a really quick fix for my problem.

I currently have the index.php copied up to my home directory. I edited it to point down to the wordpress subdirectory. (Read the above instructions.) This masks the webpage successfully.

Then I installed the following Plugin and it is successfully masking everything, WITHOUT and other updates:

Theme My Login

Yay! No other code hacks!

Thanks everyone for your support, it’s greatly appeciated.

Hopefully, this can be added as a separate tech doc.

Regards,
Amy

Hi povevolving,

I would like to keep the wordpress install local to the wordpress directory, as this server is not a single function server. Therefore, I would like to have the bulk of WP installed where it belongs, but have the end-user oblivious to the fact they are executing code in the wordpress subdirectory.

The index.php works extremely well copied into the home directory. That had to be edited to route down to the wordpress subdirectory.

I looked at the wp_login.php & wp_register.php files but don’t know how to edit those. If I copy the wp_login.php file to the home directory, it doesn’t execute the file in the home directory.

Thanks again,
Amy