Image Protection
Block the right-click menu and image dragging on a gallery's tiles.
Image Protection is the smallest module in the plugin: one switch site-wide, one toggle per gallery, and no settings of its own.
Turning it on
Both halves have to be on:
- Site-wide: Shaped Gallery → Settings → Modules → Image Protection is on by default. It has no gear — there's nothing to configure.
- Per gallery: Image & Video Settings → Right Click Protection, off by default.
With both on, a visitor can't open the context menu over a gallery image, and can't drag one out to their desktop or another tab.
What it actually stops
Be clear-eyed about this, because the feature's name promises more than any browser can deliver.
| Stops | Doesn't stop |
|---|---|
| Right-click → Save image as… | View source, or the browser's developer tools |
| Dragging an image to the desktop | A screenshot |
| Casual, accidental copying | Anyone who wants the file and knows where to look |
Everything a browser renders, it has already downloaded. Image Protection raises the effort, it does not prevent copying.
If protection genuinely matters
Combine measures rather than relying on this one:
- Watermark — a copied image carries your mark.
- Visibility & Password — the gallery isn't public at all.
- Turn off the lightbox's Download button in Settings → Modules → Lightbox.
- Serve smaller files: set Resolution to Medium so what's on the page isn't print-quality.
Two separate right-click settings
There are two, and they cover different surfaces:
| Setting | Where | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Right Click Protection | Gallery → Image & Video Settings | The tiles in the gallery. |
| Right Click Protection | Settings → Modules → Lightbox | The image inside the lightbox. |
If you want both, switch on both. Protecting the grid and leaving the lightbox open is the gap people miss.
Things worth knowing
It covers cloned tiles too. The listener is attached to the gallery container rather than to each tile, so tiles a layout generates itself — Perspective's looped clones, Thumbnails' slides — are covered as well. That's deliberate: leaking right-click-save on exactly the layouts that duplicate images would defeat the setting where it's most visible.
Switching the module off doesn't change your galleries. Their stored toggles are untouched, and come back into effect the moment the module is on again.
It adds no weight. One container class and one delegated event listener. No extra bundle.