Lots of Pinterest scoop going around an many of my clients trying to figure out how to block their site.For the WP gurus out there…how do you do this?It’s not possible to do in the free WordPress.com right? But can it be done on a self-hosted WordPress (paid) blog?

Thanks!heather

What if I don’t want images from my site to be pinned?

We have a small piece of code you can add to the head of any page on your site:

When a user tries to pin from your site, they will see this message:

“This site doesn’t allow pinning to Pinterest. Please contact the owner with any questions. Thanks for visiting!”

To add to that I used the code it works. I read around the web and they are still trying to create a widget for the wordpress.com hosted blogs. Hopefully they will hurry it up.

@blogsbyheather while I can see why companies would want that — copyright fears — at the same time, Pinterest is generating a lot of traffic for people’s websites. If your client sells something, and someone else pins it, could a friend click the link to see the item’s web page, and then buy it? If that’s a possible sales model, I would rethink blocking the images.

But if these are copyrighted images they just don’t want floating around, then yes, block them.

That’s right. Sounds good.