Enable Hotlink Protection on Apache

If your WordPress site is running on Apache, all you need to do is open the .htaccess file in your site’s root directory (or create it) and add the following:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yourdomain.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?google.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?bing.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yahoo.com […]

HTTP Strict Transport Security (often abbreviated as HSTS) is a security feature that lets a web site tell browsers that it should only be communicated with using HTTPS, instead of using HTTP. This tutorial will show you how to set up HSTS in Apache2, NGINX and Lighttpd. It is tested with all mentioned webservers, NGINX […]