through the power of .htaccess we can prevent anyone from linking to images on your site. If someone tries to post an image from your site in their blog, you can redirect it to a new image of your choosing.

For some reason, a popular way to remove the /{category}/ base from the Wordpress url in the past has been to edit the URL before it is shown in the browser by perform a .htaccess hack. This can cause a lot of issues, not to mention, you would need to add a similar line for every category you would want to cloak. Luckily, Wordpress has added an apparently little known dashboard option to edit this.