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hotlink-file-prevention

Hotlink File Prevention

Simple hotlink protection for individual files in the media library.

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Proof Health

Open evidence

Commercial opportunities need traceable source links before they are treated as build-worthy.

55 / 104 rows with source links

52.9% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

49 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
87 118 -26.3% 623

Related Opportunities

4 markets

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
[NSFW] Woocommerce Download Issue

[NSFW] Woocommerce Download Issue: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
[NSFW] Woocommerce Download Issue Hello I just added this plugin and have gone through and checked all of the mp4 vidoes on my clients site.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.74
Active for all Images

Active for all Images: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Best regards, Tobias Hi, how do I activate the hotlink protection for all images/files?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Does the plug-in work / do not work on Nginx?

Does the plug-in work / do not work on Nginx?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Nginx dont support htaccess file.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Help redirect to another link

Help redirect to another link: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Help redirect to another link If accessing off-site, Eg: Link: https://abc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/file1.docx then redirect to https://abc.com/test1 Link: https://abc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/file2.docx then redirect to https://abc.com/test2 ….
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
SEO and Hotlink

SEO and Hotlink: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
SEO and Hotlink Hello, I would like to know if this plugin allows crawling by Google, Bing… even if the image is locked.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Not working

Not working: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
<FilesMatch "\.(?i:php)$"> <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c> Order allow,deny Deny from all </IfModule> <IfModule mod_authz_core.c> Require all denied </IfModule> </FilesMatch> # BEGIN Hotlink File Prevention # The directives (lines) between "BEGIN Hotlink File Prevention" and "END Hotlink File Prevention" are # dynamically generated, and should only be modified
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Image not show in Admin

Image not show in Admin: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Image not show in Admin Hello thanks for that precious plugin that help me a lot.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.5
Not working

Not working: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
RewriteRule 2017/03/Unity-Terrain03.png - [NC,L,F] Still there is no effect Added: The problem was in hosting settings – they disabled htaccess and used nginx.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Exactly what I was looking for!

Exactly what I was looking for!: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
It works great!
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Excellent

Excellent: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Excellent Excellent it blocks direct access to URL and that’s my goal Excellent it blocks direct access to URL and that’s my goal

Competitor Context

16 shown
SEO Friendly Images weak incumbent · intel 86.3 · weakness 81.0
weak incumbent
stale update history below-average rating bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor SEO drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
All In One Favicon weak incumbent · intel 80.2 · weakness 70.8
weak incumbent
stale update history 19 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild weak incumbent · intel 80.2 · weakness 71.5
weak incumbent
1 unresolved support thread(s) stale update history support compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Add From Server weak incumbent · intel 80.0 · weakness 70.6
weak incumbent
stale update history 24 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Site Offline Or Coming Soon Or Maintenance Mode weak incumbent · intel 79.3 · weakness 69.9
weak incumbent
stale update history 8 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor coming soon submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Disable REST API weak incumbent · intel 79.1 · weakness 69.7
weak incumbent
stale update history 10 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Revision Control weak incumbent · intel 78.5 · weakness 69.1
weak incumbent
stale update history 22 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Loginizer weak incumbent · intel 78.1 · weakness 63.1
weak incumbent
3 unresolved support thread(s) 11 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Repeated Themes

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

14 shown from 14 collected
praise Works Great! (read review below for exceptions) (5 stars) review · 2024-11-20T20:48:10+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Works Great! (read review below for exceptions): users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works Great!
reliable quality admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
complaint SEO and Hotlink support · 2024-11-06T16:17:02+00:00 · medium severity · admin

SEO and Hotlink: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: SEO and Hotlink Hello, I would like to know if this plugin allows crawling by Google, Bing… even if the image is locked.
missing feature seo admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
complaint Image not show in Admin support · 2024-09-04T08:33:33+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Image not show in Admin: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Image not show in Admin Hello thanks for that precious plugin that help me a lot.
support value admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Not working (4 stars) review · 2024-05-31T16:13:52+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Not working: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: RewriteRule 2017/03/Unity-Terrain03.png - [NC,L,F] Still there is no effect Added: The problem was in hosting settings – they disabled htaccess and used nginx.
compatibility missing feature admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Perfect Solution (5 stars) review · 2024-05-29T12:40:38+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Perfect Solution: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Perfect Solution I had an image on one of my website demos linking to over 100k sites, this plugin worked perfectly to block it.
quality admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
complaint Active for all Images support · 2024-02-01T08:52:12+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Active for all Images: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Best regards, Tobias Hi, how do I activate the hotlink protection for all images/files?
support quality admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
complaint [NSFW] Woocommerce Download Issue support · 2023-09-08T09:13:52+00:00 · medium severity · admin

[NSFW] Woocommerce Download Issue: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [NSFW] Woocommerce Download Issue Hello I just added this plugin and have gone through and checked all of the mp4 vidoes on my clients site.
bugs compatibility woocommerce admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
complaint Not working support · 2023-02-21T16:23:05+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Not working: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: <FilesMatch "\.(?i:php)$"> <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c> Order allow,deny Deny from all </IfModule> <IfModule mod_authz_core.c> Require all denied </IfModule> </FilesMatch> # BEGIN Hotlink File Prevention # The directives (lines) between "BEGIN Hotlink File Prevention" and "END Hotlink File Prevention" are # dynamically generated, and should only be modified
compatibility admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
complaint Help redirect to another link support · 2022-01-22T16:08:39+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Help redirect to another link: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Help redirect to another link If accessing off-site, Eg: Link: https://abc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/file1.docx then redirect to https://abc.com/test1 Link: https://abc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/file2.docx then redirect to https://abc.com/test2 ….
support admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Very good (5 stars) review · 2022-01-22T15:49:16+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Very good: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Very good Very good Very good
admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Exactly what I was looking for! (5 stars) review · 2021-09-08T11:04:57+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Exactly what I was looking for!: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It works great!
missing feature reliable quality admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise the best (5 stars) review · 2021-06-18T00:40:27+00:00 · medium severity · admin

the best: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: the best works perfect thanks!
reliable quality admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Excellent (5 stars) review · 2021-05-12T17:55:24+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Excellent: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Excellent Excellent it blocks direct access to URL and that’s my goal Excellent it blocks direct access to URL and that’s my goal
quality admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
complaint Does the plug-in work / do not work on Nginx? support · 2015-09-15T11:39:38+00:00 · medium severity · admin

Does the plug-in work / do not work on Nginx?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Nginx dont support htaccess file.
support admin and client-governance operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure