Is this intentional?

Hi there!

Glad you are using our Imaguard plugin. With Imaguard you have two options:

1 Aggressive protection. This will cause your image to show a text on top of a blurred version if accessed from outside your own site (hotlinked) and the referrer is not on your whitelist.

2 Non-aggressive protection which will redirect the user to a blog style post of your image if they access the image directly.

What most people do with the aggressive protection is to place the text “click to see” on top of the blurred image. In Google Image Search, if you click the image, you will be taken directly to the blog post where google found the image in the first place.

You can emails us on [email protected] if you have problems or questions. If you like the plugin we would appreciate a star rating on the wordpress plugin site https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/imaguard/ and also if your plugin works with your WP version that you vote for “working with x.x.x” so that more people can fight back at image leeching!

Heya, yes i understood the protection methods, however the “original size” link on google does not link to the blogstyle post,instead the darkened “watermarked” version is shown above the usual google black background, it is not a part of my website. Thats what i meant with it being intentional

The aggressive protection works flawless btw, you found a better solution there than other coders so far (as i know) The star rating is yours i also promoted your plugin on two websites seen mostly by webmasters.

Thank you so much for the star rating and your kind words!

When you run the aggressive protection clicking the “original size” in Google (instead of clicking the actual image saying f ex “click here) will take the user to a large version of the image with the watermark.

In the non-aggressive protection, though, clicking “original size” will actually take the visitor to a post style preview of the image.

The reason for this is that the watermark is done through a redirect. Although it is possible to do different redirects based on referrer and user-agent, so that google could hotlink the watermarked image, while a visitor visiting the watermarked image would still be redirected, at this point Imaguard is not offering this functionality. We may include something like that later, but for now we want to keep the program logic fairly simple until we have more users and more “live” feedback and can get some of the inevitable bugs and small issues fixed.

Thanks again!

Ah, thats why ^^

I thought both options would work at the same time, with the images being watermarked but still direct to the website post solution

stop the thanks already ?? If there is someone to thank its you since a lot of us bloggers/webmasters/photographers/artists have no real clue about coding and face serious problems at the moment because the damn google update.

Thanks! There are some bug fixes coming out in a day or two as v 1.2.2 but if you meanwhile have any problems, just contact us.

I’m marking this issue as resolved for now ??