Getting Started

Cloaked protects your published content by rendering it as Canvas-drawn glyphs instead of selectable DOM text. Scrapers and copy-paste tools see nothing useful — your readers see your content exactly as intended.

Setup takes three steps:

1. 1

   Create an account

   Sign up at cloaked.ink with email or a Google/GitHub account.

2. 2

   Register your site and select posts to protect

   In the dashboard, add your WordPress or Ghost site. Cloaked discovers your published posts — pick the ones you want protected.

3. 3

   Install the widget on your site

   Add a single script tag (or the WordPress plugin) and your content is rendered through Canvas. Follow the CMS-specific guide below.

WordPress Quickstart

1. 1

   Sign up at cloaked.ink

   Create your account if you haven't already.

2. 2

   Add your WordPress site

   Go to Dashboard → Sites → Add site. Select WordPress and enter your site domain.

   The WordPress REST API is public by default, so no API key is needed for most sites. If your site requires authentication (e.g. private posts), create a WordPress Application Password: go to Users → Profile → Application Passwords in WP Admin, generate a new password, and paste it into the API key field.

3. 3

   Select posts to protect

   Cloaked discovers your published posts automatically. Select the ones you want to protect from the list.

4. 4

   Download and install the WordPress plugin

   On your site's detail page in the dashboard, download the Cloaked WordPress plugin ZIP. The plugin comes pre-configured with your Site ID.

   In WP Admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, upload the ZIP file, and click Activate.

5. 5

   Verify it works

   In WP Admin, go to Settings → cloaked.ink. You should see the Enable toggle (on by default) and your Site ID. Visit a protected post on your site — the content should render as Canvas graphics instead of selectable text.

Ghost Quickstart

1. 1

   Sign up at cloaked.ink

   Create your account if you haven't already.

2. 2

   Create a Ghost integration

   In Ghost Admin, go to Settings → Integrations → Add custom integration. Name it something like "Cloaked" and copy the Content API key.

3. 3

   Add your Ghost site

   Go to Dashboard → Sites → Add site. Select Ghost, enter your Ghost domain, and paste the Content API key.

4. 4

   Select posts to protect

   Choose which posts to protect from the discovered list.

   Note on SEO: Ghost automatically includes a ~100-word excerpt of each post in the page's meta description for search engine indexing. This is standard Ghost behavior and is not controlled by Cloaked. The full post body is still rendered exclusively through the Canvas widget and cannot be copied or scraped.

5. 5

   Embed the widget script

   Add the Cloaked loader script to your Ghost site. Replace YOUR_SITE_ID with the Site ID shown in your dashboard.

   Ghost(Pro): Go to Ghost Admin → Settings → Code Injection → Site Header and paste:

   <script src="https://cdn.cloaked.ink/w.js" data-clk-site="YOUR_SITE_ID" async></script>

   Copy

   Self-hosted: Add the same script tag to your theme's default.hbs file before </head>.

6. 6

   Verify it works

   Visit a protected post on your Ghost site. The content should render as Canvas graphics instead of selectable text.

Widget Embed Reference

The Cloaked widget is loaded via a single <script> tag. Configuration is done through data-clk-* attributes.

Site-level example — add to your site header and all registered posts are protected automatically:

<script src="https://cdn.cloaked.ink/w.js" data-clk-site="YOUR_SITE_ID" async></script>

Per-post example — place a container where you want the protected content:

<div data-clk-src="YOUR_SOURCE_ID"></div>
<script src="https://cdn.cloaked.ink/w.js" async></script>

Animation Presets

Cloaked applies subtle canvas animations that make automated screen-capture and OCR less effective. Choose a preset when configuring each content source.

Troubleshooting