Wix Media: Protecting Your Site's Content

Keeping your site’s content safe helps protect your photos, artwork, and other intellectual property from being copied or misused. Wix has several built-in features and apps designed to help you prevent unauthorized downloads and safeguard your work.

Adding a watermark with Photo Studio

Wix Photo Studio is a versatile tool that allows you to edit, adjust, and customize your images. Use the text tool to manually add a watermark to your photos. You can even adjust the font, size, format, and opacity.

To add a watermark:

Wix Editor

1. Go to your editor.

2. Click the relevant image.

3. Click the Settings icon

   

   .

4. Click Adjust.

5. Click Text on the left.

6. Select a text style and click to add it to your image.

7. Enter your chosen watermark message.

8. (Optional) Click Design to customize the text:

   • Font: Click the relevant drop-down menu to change your font and font size.

   • Styles: Format your text using the options: Bold, Italic or Underline and choose your text color.

   • Alignment: Choose your text alignment: Left, Center, Right or Justify and adjust your line spacing.

   • Opacity: Increase or decrease the transparency of your text.

   • Rotate and flip: Change your text orientation: Rotate left

     

     , Rotate right

     

     , Flip horizontally

     

     or Flip vertically

     

     .

9. Click Save at the top right.

Studio Editor

1. Go to your editor.

2. Click the relevant image.

3. Click the Settings icon

   

   .

4. Click Adjust.

5. Click Text on the left.

6. Select a text style and click to add it to your image.

7. Enter your chosen watermark message.

8. (Optional) Click Design to customize the text:

   • Font: Click the relevant drop-down menu to change your font and font size.

   • Styles: Format your text using the options: Bold, Italic or Underline and choose your text color.

   • Alignment: Choose your text alignment: Left, Center, Right or Justify and adjust your line spacing.

   • Opacity: Increase or decrease the transparency of your text.

   • Rotate and flip: Change your text orientation: Rotate left

     

     , Rotate right

     

     , Flip horizontally

     

     or Flip vertically

     

     .

9. Click Save at the top right.

Wix app

1. Go to your site in the Wix app.

2. Tap Manage

   

   at the bottom.

3. Scroll down and tap Settings.

4. Tap Media Manager.

5. Tap Site media.

6. Tap the file you want to edit.

7. Tap Edit.

8. Scroll to the right and select Text.

9. Enter your chosen watermark message.

10. (Optional) Customize the text:

    • Font: Select the text font.

    • Color: Select the text color.

    • BG Color: Add a background color to the text.

    • Alignment: Choose your text alignment: Left, Center, or Right.

11. Tap Save at the bottom right.

Harmony Editor

1. Go to your editor.

2. Click the Wix dropdown at the top left of the editor.

3. Select Media Manager.

4. Click the relevant image.

5. Click Edit Image.

6. Click Text on the left.

7. Select a text style.

8. Enter your chosen watermark message.

9. (Optional) Customize the Text Design:

   • Font: Click the relevant drop-down menu to change your font and font size.

   • Styles: Format your text using the options: Bold, Italic or Underline and choose your text color.

   • Alignment: Choose your text alignment: Left, Center, Right or Justify and adjust your line spacing.

   • Opacity: Increase or decrease the transparency of your text.

   • Rotate and flip: Change your text orientation: Rotate left

     

     , Rotate right

     

     , Flip horizontally

     

     or Flip vertically

     

     .

10. Click Save at the top right.

Note:

It is not possible to add watermarks to product images in Wix Stores, although you can manually add a watermark to the image before uploading it.

Right Click Protect in pro galleries

Keep your images safe by displaying them in a Wix Pro Gallery. The pro gallery has built-in protection from right-clicking on desktop, so visitors can't save your images with a right click.

Pro galleries have many different layout options available, and you can easily add them from your editor.

Note:

If you decide later that you do want to allow site visitors to download your images, you can enable this option in the pro gallery settings.

Tip:

Want to add a watermark to your pro gallery images? Vote for this option.

Using the Right Click Protect app

You can add the Right Click Protect app to your site from the Wix App Market to help protect your content. When visitors try to right-click on your site, they’ll see a custom message letting them know your content is copyrighted. After adding the app, you can update this message in the app’s settings to fit your needs.

Important:

The Right Click Protect app does not prevent visitors using Ctrl+C to copy your content. Vote for this option.

To add the Right Click Protect app:

Wix Editor

1. Go to your editor.

2. Click Add Apps

   

   on the left side of the editor.

3. Search for the Right Click Protect app in the search bar then select the app.

4. Click Add to Site.

5. (Optional) Click Settings to edit the message shown.

Studio Editor

1. Go to your editor.

2. Click App Market

   

   on the left side of the editor.

3. Search for the Right Click Protect app in the search bar then select the app.

4. Click Add to Site.

5. (Optional) Click Settings to edit the message shown.

Wix Harmony Editor

1. Go to your editor.

2. Click + Add at the top left of the editor.

3. Click the Arrow icon

   

   to navigate to the Apps category.

4. Use the search bar to look for the Right Click Protect app and select the app.

5. Click Agree & Add.

6. (Optional) Click Settings to edit the message shown.

Note:

Currently, it is not possible to add a watermark or custom logo to videos with Wix Video, however, you can add a custom logo to embedded videos. If you would like the option to add a watermark to videos in Wix Video, vote for the feature.