After our great workshop today about finding Creative Commons images (among other things) to use in our YouShow blogs I thought I would share this awesome WordPress plugin that helps you do just that! Here’s the description right from the ImageInject plugin page:
Easily insert images and photos into your blog posts! ImageInject searches the huge Flickr database for creative commons photos related to any topic.
I’ve been using this plugin to find (hopefully) interesting images for my posts and so far I’ve been really happy with the selection ImageInject offers. The plugin works directly in your WordPress dashboard just below your Edit Post text box allowing you to search and insert Flickr and Pixabay images into your post along with the proper copyright attribute info. How sweet is that?!? There are a ton of options including various images size, different Creative Commons licensing, different settings on how the copyright info is displayed in your post and more.
The only small issue that i have found is that the plugin doesn’t want to insert the copyright info for pixabay.com images, but you can easily copy and paste the info directly into your post from the thumbnail provided. Hopefully that will be fixed with a plugin update in the future.
Here are a couple examples:
Image from Pixabay:
Photo by 5zal_Photography (Pixabay)
(I did have to copy and paste this copyright bit from the plugin thumbnail)
Image from Flickr:
Photo by @Doug88888 
(This one was inserted automagically)
Want to give it a shot?
- On your WordPress Dashboard sidebar go to Plugins>Add New
- in the search bar on the top right search for “ImageInject”
- Once the plugin result comes up, click on the “Install Now” button
- After the install is complete click the Activate Plugin link
- After that you are good to go! The ImageInject search box will now appear right under your text box when you create a new post or page.
- (Optional Step) Go to Settings>ImageInject and adjust the setting to best fit your site setup
That’s is, that’s all! Check out the official WordPress plugin page for more details at: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-inject/.
You can also read a full tutorial from the plugin author here: http://wpscoop.com/wp-inject/#docs
Feature Image Photo by PublicDomainPictures (Pixabay)