Hotlink Protection Plugin for WordPress
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Everyday websites suffer performance loss and higher bills due to bandwidth thieves. This plugin adds the necessary code to your .htaccess file to stop people from loading your graphics from third party websites.
What is a bandwidth thief?
Since many website hosting companies charge per file transferred (or total file transfer size for the month), unscrupulous website owners often load key graphic files from smaller, unsuspecting website owners in hopes of both lowering the costs of running their website and increasing the performance of their site.
This plugin uses Apache’s .htaccess capacity to stop foreign websites from loading images from your web server.
