3 Comments

1. 

   Kikolani

   May 25, 2009 • 23:24

   Definitely good tips! I found one of my post images was being linked to, and I just changed the name of the image which fixed them. My photos are all through Flickr, which is also helpful in preventing that.

   ~ Kristi
2. 

   8bitmag

   May 26, 2009 • 20:06

   Hi Kristi
   If you have lots of images in post that is hotlinked its not so fun to rename them all. Its very time consuming. With .htaccess all process is automatic. Immediately when hotlinking is detected, all images are replaced with your custom image. + You can have name and logo on that image..You know, its like free advertising on they site Hosting image elsewhere is bad thing because you will not get traffic from image search engines. Don’t underestimate the traffic driving power of self-hosted images.

   Cheers
3. 

   Babaji M P

   September 26, 2009 • 05:55

   Using a replacement image is working.

   But … ,

   The replacement images changes to the dimension of the copied image !

   For eg.,

   The original image is http://mysite.com/image.jpg of dimension 800×900
   replacement image is http://hosted.com/image.jpg of dimension 200×300

   Now, the problem here is the replacement image is stretched to 800×900,
   making it hard to see the warning on the replacement image.

   Any idea how to make the replacement image to show specific dimension via .htaccess ?

   Thank You.

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