Title: Hide API?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Hide API?

 *  Resolved [nuonis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuonis/)
 * (@nuonis)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-api/)
 * I am using this plugin for my client sites and was wondering if it’s possible
   to hide the API once it’s entered and verified? Right now the API is completely
   accessible to my clients if they snoop around the plugin. What’s stopping them
   from taking the API and sharing it?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Shane Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-api/#post-6328852)
 * never really thought about that, I always kept it plain text so its easier to
   verify that you have it entered properly.
 * But I think it would be a good idea to turn it into a ‘password’ field so the
   input is masked (and then it cannot be copied and pasted either). Pretty easy
   fix, look in the file common.php on line 3046 for this bit of code:
 * `<input type='text' id='ewww_image_optimizer_cloud_key'`
 * Change the type from ‘text’ to ‘password’ and problem solved. I’ll put it in 
   for version 2.5, but that’s going to be a while as I’ve got a couple different
   features on the roadmap for this next release.
 *  Thread Starter [nuonis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuonis/)
 * (@nuonis)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-api/#post-6328854)
 * Thanks for the quick response! I’ll wait for the update since it would take a
   lot of time to change this code for 40+ sites. What does “a while” mean in update
   terms? I appreciate you taking this suggestion into consideration! 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Shane Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-api/#post-6328856)
 * 1-2 months is what I’m planning for
 *  Plugin Author [Shane Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-api/#post-6329121)
 * Things are going quicker than I expected. Looking like I might be able to release
   the updates next week. Dev release is here if you want to play with it: [https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/ewww-image-optimizer.zip](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/ewww-image-optimizer.zip)

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 * Last reply from: [Shane Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-api/#post-6329121)
 * Status: resolved