Iframe breaker WordPress plugin

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This entry is part 8 of 30 in the series 30 Day Plugin Challenge

You may have “discovered” your site on the internet at some stage contained in an iframe.   Basically, another site has  captured your site within an iframe on its site.    A lot of  people use iframes for example to frame a product vendor’s site.      Say,  you have a  book on WordPress on your own domain and you have a nice little affiliate program set up.   Rather than create an affiliate marketing site to promote the book and get paid affiliate commissions your affiliates may just frame your site (in this example the sales page) within an iframe on their domain.     Visitors clicking the link think that they are on your site ..but, in fact, they are on the affiliate’s site.      That’s one way that iframes can be used but of course there are other evil ways :)

Now some product vendors are quite happy for affiliates to frame their site and they usually will state in their affiliate terms and conditions but others are not.

If you don’t want to have your site’s content captured in an iframe then you can easily put an end to it by installing an iframe breaker WordPress plugin.     This plugin effectively stops your site being captured by another.

Iframes aren’t all bad either :)   We use iframes usually to capture Amazon products or banners in our affiliate sites, for Facebook  and to embed videos from You Tube for instance.    The times when you are looking for an iframe breaker is when you don’t want your whole site (or part of the content) to be iframed by someone else.

You can read more about framing here.

 

 

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