Title: ProLocker
Author: frontierthemes
Published: <strong>May 5, 2020</strong>
Last modified: June 1, 2020

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# ProLocker

 By [frontierthemes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frontierthemes/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/pro-locker.1.1.2.zip)

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## Description

Plugin that enables content sharing by means of social unlocking. It allows you 
to lock content you deem interesting and then allowing your public to unlock said
content by sharing the URL of your website along with a unique identifier.

### Copyright

ProLocker WordPress Plugin, Copyright 2020 Frontier Themes.
 ProLocker WordPress
Plugin is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

ProLocker bundles the following third-party resources:

React, Copyright (c) 2013-2020 Facebook, Inc., Copyright (c) 2013-2020 React Team

Licenses: MIT Source: https://reactjs.org/

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Locked content example.
 * [[
 * Hit Counter block configuration.
 * [[
 * Prokeys list.
 * [[
 * Prokey detail.

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   Hit counter

## FAQ

### What does this plugin address?

The purpose of this plugin is to provide greater reach of your content through the
means of share locking. Let’s say you have an interesting content to share (be it
news, pictures, videos, among other types of content), and you wish to maximize 
reach by having a mechanism for virality. You just have to lock that content with
our plugin and configure the sharing requirements (hit counter) per visitor.

### What’s a good number to set up as the hit number?

We recommend keeping it fairly low, perhaps 2 or 3 is a good choice. Making it big
enough will make people try to cheat on it using proxies or VPNs.

### What is a Prokey and if a Prokey has been abused, what can I do?

A Prokey is a sharing link instance ID, which identifies a visitor from another 
and counts hits against to. If a Prokey has been abused, every Prokey has an IP 
address associated with it, so you can add it to the blacklist mechanism we have
also shipped with this release. An IP address blacklisted can’t create new Prokeys
nor count hits for other Prokeys.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“ProLocker” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ frontierthemes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frontierthemes/)

“ProLocker” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pro-locker/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “ProLocker” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pro-locker)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pro-locker/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/pro-locker/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pro-locker/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pro-locker/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.2

 * Released: June 1, 2020
 * Updated readme.
 * Added screenshots.

#### 1.1.1

 * Added sanitation and validation for $_GET and $_REQUEST values.

#### 1.1.0

 * Released: April 29, 2020
 * Renamed every single namespace, class, methods and constants in favor of more
   unique names.
 * Renamed the custom post types included in the plugin.

#### 1.0.1

 * Released: April 13, 2020
 * Removed unused code from the render callback of the prolocker/hit-counter block.

#### 1.0.0

 * Released: March 26, 2020
 * First stable release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.1**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.4.19**
 *  PHP version ** 5.4 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pro-locker/) and [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/pro-locker/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pro-locker)
 * Tags
 * [lock](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/lock/)[locking](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/locking/)
   [share](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/share/)[Viral](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/viral/)
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## Contributors

 *   [ frontierthemes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frontierthemes/)

## Support

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