Timeline for I want to encrypt my WordPress plugin
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| Oct 16, 2019 at 4:10 | history | edited | butlerblog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 16, 2019 at 4:08 | answer | added | butlerblog | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 12:19 | comment | added | Suriya Karthikeyan | Okay. Thank you so much for your valuable response. | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 11:45 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 15, 2019 at 11:27 | comment | added | Jacob Peattie | But if the bulk of your plugin really isn't using any WordPress APIs, then it's a bad plugin. | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 11:26 | comment | added | Jacob Peattie | No. If your application (plugin) includes GPL code (it does, in the main plugin file), then the whole thing must be distributed under GPL, which means it must be open source. | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 11:18 | comment | added | Suriya Karthikeyan | Thank you so much for your response. But sorry to ask this again. I really want to clarify this. Even though there are free plugins available, if i want to encrypt the .php file alone if it not contains any wordpress core functions, is it possible? | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 11:07 | comment | added | Jacob Peattie | Ok so there's no good reason to encrypt the file. Storing social media URLs is not so difficult that people are going to steal your code. If you need to protect this for commercial reasons then I'd be more worried about the dozens of free open-source plugins that already exist and do this. | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 11:03 | comment | added | Suriya Karthikeyan | My plugin gets the social media urls from the users ( those who installed our plugin) and stores their information in the database. It also stores their license key in the database. Other than this, there is no sensitive information. | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 10:59 | comment | added | Suriya Karthikeyan | Yes. it is part of the wordpress plugin. I have just included the .php file inside the main plugin file using include() function. | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 10:51 | comment | added | Jacob Peattie | If it's part of a WordPress plugin, I doubt it? It must be connected to the plugin somehow. Are you trying to encrypt it because it contains sensitive information? Or because you think people want to steal your code for some reason? | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 10:45 | comment | added | Suriya Karthikeyan | can i encrypt the .php file alone if it not contains any wordpress core functions? | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 10:33 | comment | added | Jacob Peattie | If you plan on distributing this plugin then doing so would be a violation of the GPL and therefore illegal. | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 10:25 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 15, 2019 at 10:23 | history | asked | Suriya Karthikeyan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |