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1. jjm0109
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hey people,
   I have this query and I am wondering if this sort of hack is possible or not.
   I usually host my client's website on own test server and show them the site via my masked url. So I always have the control of the site.
   This particular client is hosted elsewhere and is now asking me to move the entire wordpress (source files / design) on his server while the work is still going on. He hasn't paid me any advance money and I would like to secure my progress so far.
   Hence, I was wondering, is there any way I can make my client's wordpress install depended on an external file which will be on MY server? Or maybe a MySQL approval? So what it does is, does a check on my server, my server returns a positive reply and then the WP carries on with it's code.

   Anything that can serve as a on-off switch at my end so that in case is something goes wrong (it has, some clients refuse to pay at the end), I can just switch that thing (file, password, SQL query) OFF and secure my hours of work / demand my paycheck.

   Could prove useful to many such freelance WP developers out there. Do post if anyone has an idea regarding this.

   Thanks,
   Jugal

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Any half-decent coder could disable any such switch - so that's no protection.

3. jjm0109
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hmm, true.
   Okay, how about theme's functions.php file loading externally from my end? Is that possible?

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   No - sorry.

5. fireproofsocks
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Nah, your best protection there is in your contract: get paid up front. Any such external file checking is susceptible to network connections etc, so it's generally a pain. Get paid up front before you delivery anything or ditch the client.

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