Title: Rapls Copy Notice Author: rapls Published: October 30, 2026 Last modified: October 30, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/rapls-copy-notice/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3775764) ![](https://ps.w.org/rapls-copy-notice/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3775764) # Rapls Copy Notice By [rapls](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rapls/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/rapls-copy-notice.1.3.19.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rapls-copy-notice/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rapls-copy-notice/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rapls-copy-notice/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rapls-copy-notice/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rapls-copy-notice/) ## Description When a visitor selects text in one of your posts and copies it, Rapls Copy Notice records what was copied and from which post, and tells you by email. It does not stop anyone from copying. Readers can still select, copy and right-click as usual; you simply find out which passages are being taken. * A log under **Tools Rapls Copy Notice**: date, post, copied text, shortened IP address and browser. Filter by post, delete selected entries or everything. * Email notifications, either one summary per hour (the default) or one email per copy with an hourly cap, after which copies roll into the summary. * Only copies of at least 20 characters (adjustable), only from the post body, and only on the post types you choose. If your theme’s markup is unusual, the plugin can mark the end of the post body itself so it is found in any theme. * Copies by logged-in administrators and editors are ignored by default. You can also ignore IP addresses (CIDR ranges allowed) and individual posts. * Your own subject line, so the emails are easy to filter. * A dashboard widget with the number of copies in the last 7 days and the three most copied posts. * Checks in **Tools Site Health** for the log table, the scheduled tasks, the notification address, notifications that keep failing, the monitored post types, proxy setup and database locks. * Two optional features for readers, both off by default: a short message after they copy (for example, asking them to link to the source), and the post title and URL appended to the copied text. * Log entries are deleted automatically after 90 days (adjustable). * Works with page caching: the detection script needs no per-visitor token. #### Rapls Copy Notice Pro (optional add-on) Everything described above is free, with no trial and no limits tied to an upgrade, and this plugin does not need anything else to work. Rapls Copy Notice Pro is a separate plugin, sold on the author’s website, for sites that want to act on copies: * Statistics by post and by paragraph, compared with the previous period. * Notifications to Slack, Chatwork, Discord or your own webhook, with a delivery history and retries, and a choice of which visitor data they receive. * Rules that route each copy to the right channel, and burst alerts. * Daily web search for your most copied paragraphs, with your own search API key. * CSV export of the log. * Multisite: the 5-site license covers a whole network, with an overview of every site. One-time purchase, no subscription. Details: https://raplsworks.com/rapls-copy-notice- pro-en/ The plugin’s screen has a **Pro features** tab describing the add-on, and short notes about it on the Log and Notifications tabs and in its row on the Plugins screen. All of them disappear once the add-on is active, and the rapls_cn_show_upsell filter hides them (return `false`). #### Paragraphs Each copy also records a fingerprint of the paragraph it came from: a SHA-1 hash of that paragraph’s text, worked out in the reader’s browser. The paragraph itself is not stored. In the log, **Copies of this paragraph** lists every copy taken from the same paragraph. Browsers only offer the hashing function on HTTPS pages, so sites served over plain HTTP record copies without it. #### For developers * `rapls_cn_logged` (action) fires after a copy is stored, with the row ID and the stored values. * `rapls_cn_notification_delivered` (filter) lets an add-on send each notification to another channel; return `true` when it was delivered. * `rapls_cn_email_rows` (filter) lets an add-on choose which rows go into the notification email; an empty array skips the email for that notification. * `rapls_cn_is_pro` (filter) is set to `true` by the Pro add-on; rapls_cn_show_upsell and `rapls_cn_pro_url` control the Pro features tab. * `rapls_cn_privacy_policy_paragraphs` (filter) gets the suggested privacy policy paragraphs, keyed `collected`, `ip`, `use` and `retention`, as plain text; an add-on that sends copy records out should replace `use`. * `rapls_cn_log_emptied` (action) fires after “Delete all” has removed every log entry. New entries are numbered from 1 again, so an add-on that keeps entry IDs should drop them here. * `rapls_cn_admin_tabs` (filter), `rapls_cn_admin_load` and rapls_cn_render_tab_{ key} (actions) let an add-on add tabs to the plugin’s screen. Values that came from a visitor’s browser are passed to these hooks as stored. Escape them for wherever you output them. #### How visitor data is handled Everything a copy report contains comes from the visitor’s browser, so the plugin treats all of it as untrusted. * **Escaped wherever it is shown.** The copied text, user agent, referrer and IP address are escaped every time they are printed in the admin screens, for the exact place they appear (HTML text, attribute or URL). The plugin does not rely on cleaning values when they are saved. * **Plain-text email only.** Notifications are always sent as `text/plain`. The subject line contains your site name, the label you set (by default “Copy notification”) and a count, never anything a visitor sent or a post title. Copied text is quoted line by line in the body so it cannot imitate other fields. * **Rate limited.** By default at most 10 reports per minute from one IP address and 500 per hour for the whole site are accepted. One address is also held to a fifth of the site limit per hour (100 by default), so it cannot use up the site limit alone, and IPv6 addresses are counted per /64 block. Reports over a limit are neither stored nor emailed. The counts stay exact when many reports arrive at once as long as the database allows named locks (MySQL’s GET_LOCK), which Site Health checks. * **Checked against real posts.** A report is accepted only for a published post of a monitored type. Copied text is capped at 500 characters and the user agent and referrer host at 255. * **Nothing echoed back.** The endpoint answers with a status code and an empty body. * **IP addresses shortened by default.** The last part of an IPv4 address and the last 80 bits of an IPv6 address are removed before storage. Headers such as `X-Forwarded-For` are ignored unless you list your reverse proxy as trusted, and then only for requests that come from that proxy. #### Privacy Rapls Copy Notice sets no cookies and stores nothing in the visitor’s browser. To enforce the rate limits, the site keeps a one-way hash of each visitor’s IP address( of its /64 block for IPv6) for up to an hour, in a counter that then expires. The optional reader message and source link use only the post’s own title and URL and your text; they record nothing extra. This plugin never contacts any external service: copy reports go only to your own site, and notifications are sent with WordPress’s own mail function, through whatever mail system the site uses (an SMTP plugin or email service, for example). Suggested wording for your privacy policy is added to **Settings Privacy**. An add-on can send notifications elsewhere: Rapls Copy Notice Pro, for example, sends them to the chat services or webhook you switch on. It then changes the suggested privacy policy wording to name those services and what they receive. ## Screenshots [⌊The log under Tools → Rapls Copy Notice: date, post, copied text, shortened IP address and browser, with a filter by post.⌉⌊The log under Tools → Rapls Copy Notice: date, post, copied text, shortened IP address and browser, with a filter by post .⌉[ The log under Tools Rapls Copy Notice: date, post, copied text, shortened IP address and browser, with a filter by post. [⌊A summary email: plain text, with the copied text quoted, the post and its address, and the length of each copy.⌉⌊A summary email: plain text, with the copied text quoted, the post and its address, and the length of each copy.⌉[ A summary email: plain text, with the copied text quoted, the post and its address, and the length of each copy. [⌊The Notifications tab: where emails go, the subject label, hourly summaries or one email per copy, and a test email button.⌉⌊The Notifications tab: where emails go, the subject label, hourly summaries or one email per copy, and a test email button.⌉[ The Notifications tab: where emails go, the subject label, hourly summaries or one email per copy, and a test email button. [⌊The Detection tab: minimum length, post types, the content area, and who and what to ignore.⌉⌊The Detection tab: minimum length, post types, the content area, and who and what to ignore.⌉[ The Detection tab: minimum length, post types, the content area, and who and what to ignore. [⌊The Visitors tab: an optional message after copying and an optional source line added to copied text, both off by default.⌉⌊The Visitors tab: an optional message after copying and an optional source line added to copied text, both off by default .⌉[ The Visitors tab: an optional message after copying and an optional source line added to copied text, both off by default. [⌊The dashboard widget: copies in the last 7 days and the most copied posts.⌉⌊The dashboard widget: copies in the last 7 days and the most copied posts.⌉[ The dashboard widget: copies in the last 7 days and the most copied posts. ## Installation 1. Install and activate the plugin. 2. That’s it. With the default settings, copies of 20 or more characters from posts and pages are logged and summarized to the site administration email once an hour. 3. Optional: adjust the settings under **Tools Rapls Copy Notice**. ## FAQ ### Does this stop people from copying my content? No, and it is not meant to. Blocking selection or right-click gets in the way of ordinary readers and does not stop anyone determined. This plugin only tells you what is being copied. ### Nothing is being logged. What should I check? Log out, or use a private window, since administrators and editors are ignored by default. Copy at least 20 characters from the body of a single post or page. If your theme does not use `.entry-content`, `.post-content` or `article` around the post body, either enter the right CSS selector under **Detection Content area, or turn on Detection Find the post body. That option is off by default because it adds one empty, hidden element after the post content. Copies from form fields( a comment box, a contact form) are never recorded: that text is usually the reader’s own. ### How do I check that notification emails arrive? Use **Send a test email** on the Notifications tab. It sends a short fixed message to the notification address. If it does not arrive, check the spam folder and the site’s email settings; many hosts need an SMTP plugin. ### Why did the hourly summary arrive late? Summaries are sent by WP-Cron, which runs when someone visits the site. On a site with little traffic, the email goes out with the first visit after it is due. ### Can I count copies in Google Analytics or another tool? The plugin does not send anything to analytics services itself. It does fire a rapls-cn:copy event on the page each time it reports a copy to your site, with the post ID and the length of the selection, which your own script can forward. The event fires in the browser, before the site applies its rate limits and ignored IP addresses, so the count can be a little higher than the log’s: ``` document.addEventListener( 'rapls-cn:copy', function ( e ) { /* e.detail.postId, e.detail.length */ } ); ``` ### My site is behind Cloudflare or another proxy and every IP looks the same. Add the proxy’s IP addresses or ranges under **Detection Trusted proxies**. The visitor’s address is then taken from `X-Forwarded-For`, but only on requests that really come from those proxies. ### I used Check Copy Contents. Can I switch to this plugin? Yes. Rapls Copy Notice covers the same need, logging copied text and emailing you about it, and it is a separate plugin written from scratch. If that plugin’s settings are still in your database when you first activate this one, the notification address, minimum length and a custom subject are carried over. Deactivate the old plugin afterwards, or you will get two emails per copy. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Rapls Copy Notice” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ rapls ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rapls/) “Rapls Copy Notice” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/rapls-copy-notice/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Rapls Copy Notice” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/rapls-copy-notice) ### Interested in development? 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