My recent dilemma dealing with possible image theft.

 I’ve recently created a new blog site using Word Press.   The current ‘blog’ I had started out with last week with my newly self-created website that I absolutely LOVE, had one better blog feature: protecting images from theft.   This is a very important feature for photographers, and one I’m not willing to give up lightly.  But the site was lacking in ease to line up images perfectly, so out of curiosity I built the WP blog.    I really like the WP block feature.  In truth, I didn’t even know what my site blog was lacking or its strengths until I was playing with WP. I’m sure both have more capabilities, but I’m still at the learning stages and have only spent 4 days working towards blogging and design. So I basically created two blog websites, and figured with more time I would be able to figure out what I was doing and how to fix the issues within each. 

WP safety issue is a serious flaw, but I’m sure that is part of their intentional design! How hard would it be to disable right click on images?  Now that I have a decent blog page designed with them, and I’ve done more research on what it takes to protect your images on WP, I found and it’s a simple solution: a  $300 business plan. That’s right….  If you want safety for the images connected to your free blog, they extort you in order to attach a free plug-in that will fix that problem. I didn’t have an issue with paying something, as I do have a free blog with them, but I was thinking their $4 monthly personal plan would be acceptable for that plug-in access. Not 300 a year for a website that really has minimal features and ability.   While I did find that you can link the largest images back to a website url, not all my images are uploaded on line. When using their block galleries and specialty groups blocks, that link feature doesn’t work. Can’t say I want all photos to be large, that would be a boring layout. But it is a consideration. After all… it is a free site.

So now I’m at a crossroads.   Who do I use to host the blog for the future of my company? While I love WP block building… that’s all I really love.  I really hated almost every part of building that page and the overall setup, and confusion trying to change features.  So do I keep my blog with them for ease, unprotected… or do I stay with my current blog with my website that protects me as long as I don’t have RSS link connected and gives me a proper blog name https://www.jenniferrobin.gallery/blog.  Seeing as they allow me to code (though I’ll have to learn how) there is a possibility I can do more than I know at this time. I’ll keep looking when I get some spare time.

Where I stand: it’s looking like I may end up staying with the great website and a decent blog, as opposed to a crappy website with a great blog. Seeing as I don’t intend to blog often, my current website image safety features is likely going to decide this one. And the ability to have everything in one place is a factor too. Did I say I really love the WP building block easy layout!