Protect your WordPress Blog

There are various sites which allow blog users to protect their blogs and protect them from plagiarism. They span from licensing services to just banners. But the ones I chose for my WebLog are Creative Commons and Copyscape.

To add Copyscape to your WordPress.com WebLog:

Copyscape site has a searchbar where one can search for copies of ones page on the Web. Just enter your blog’s address and check out the search results. As an example, you can have a look at the results for the American Declaration of Independence. Protect yourself by uploading these banners on your site/blog. I’ve chosen the following one…

On choosing a banner, you’ll receive an HTML code. Mine was like this.

<A HREF=”http://www.copyscape.com/”><IMG SRC=”http://banners.copyscape.com/images/cs-gr-3d-120×60.gif” ALT=”Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape” TITLE=”Do not copy content from the page. Plagiarism will be detected by Copyscape.” WIDTH=”120″ HEIGHT=”60″ BORDER=”0″></A>

Select the whole code and choose the ‘copy‘ option. Then go to the ‘Widgets‘ page under ‘Design‘ for your blog. Choose your ‘sidebar‘ and insert the widget ‘text‘.
In the ‘Text Edit‘ section just ‘paste‘ this code in the space provided. Click on ‘Change‘ and ‘Save Changes‘.
Hurrah!!! you now have the banner on your blog sidebar! More information about their site and services can be found here.

To add Creative Commons to your WordPress.com WebLog:

You might want to read this before applying for a License. Click here to apply for a Creative Commons license. More information about the various options is available on the same page Choose the right license for your WebLog. Enter the options and click on the ‘Select a license‘ button. For your selected entry, you’ll be shown a few banners that can be placed on your site. I’ve chosen the following one:

On choosing a banner, you’ll receive an HTML code. Mine was like this.

<a rel=”license” href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in/”><img alt=”Creative Commons License” style=”border-width:0″ src=”http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/2.5/in/88×31.png”/></a><br/><span xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/” property=”dc:title”>The Faster than Light WebLog</span> by <a xmlns:cc=”http://creativecommons.org/ns#” href=”http://fasterthanlight.wordpress.com” property=”cc:attributionName” rel=”cc:attributionURL”>Sanket Totewar</a> is licensed under a <a rel=”license” href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in/”>Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License</a>.

Select the whole code and choose the ‘copy‘ option. Then go to the ‘Widgets‘ page under ‘Design‘ for your blog. Choose your ‘sidebar‘ and insert the widget ‘text‘. You may also consider placing this with the Copyscape code (as I’ve done on my Bllog). In the ‘Text Edit‘ section just ‘paste‘ this code in the space provided. Click on ‘Change‘ and ‘Save Changes‘.
Hurrah!!! you now have the banner on your blog sidebar! More information about their site and services can be found here.

That was easy wasn’t it?

PS: If you have trouble getting the Creative Commons image in the widget, please see this post:
Get Creative Commons Widget with Images in Sidebar

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