Description
This plugin adds credits, link and license fields to media uploads and offer several options to display image credits on your posts and pages. You can either:
- Use the [image-credits] shortcode. Optional attributes are
sep
,before
,after
andtemplate
(use curly brackets instead of square brackets for placeholders). - Use the
the_image_credits()
template tag. Optional parameters aresep
,before
,after
andtemplate
. - Let the plugin automatically display the credits for you, before or after the content or overlaid above each image.
- Use the widget to display the credits in the footer or the sidebars.
See the settings page to choose how you display the credits, including the HTML used to build them.
This plugin is a fork of the Image Credits plugin by Adam Capriola. It is 100% compatible, if you are already using the Image Credit plugin just replace it with this one and it will work about the same way, except you will have more control.
Credits
Following is the list of people and projects who helped me with this plugin, many thanks to them 🙂
- Jan Spoelstra: Contributed the Dutch translations.
- Borisa Djuraskovic from Web Hosting Hub: Contributed the Serbian translations.
- Luca Palli: Contributed the Italian translations.
- joerns: Contributed the code to support the galleries.
Privacy Policy
This plugin does not collect any personal information from your visitors.
Installation
This plugin follows the standard WordPress installation method:
- Upload the
better-image-credits
folder to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to the plugin’s settings page to configure the plugin.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Better Image Credits” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Better Image Credits” has been translated into 9 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Better Image Credits” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
Version 2.0.3
- Fixing notices
Version 2.0.2
- Fixing when the admin javascript gets registered
Version 2.0.1
- Fixing overlay setup when image is already loaded
Version 2.0
- Adding autocomplete features to the “license” and “license link” fields
- Adding option to add credits to caption shortcode
Version 1.9
- Added a setting to pick-up the color of the overlay background
- Preparing for language packs
Version 1.8
- The search box in the media library now allows searches through the credits fields
source
andlicense
- Plugin now uses only one row in the options’ table
- Fixed bug that prevents ovelayed credits to properly display when multiple images have the same credits
- Added template-related settings to the credits widget
Version 1.7
- Added the possibility to set the credits in bulk in the media library. Open the media library, choose the list mode then in the “Bulk Actions” dropdown choose the “Image Credits” action. Select the images you want to update and press the “Apply” button.
Version 1.6.1
- Totally masking the widget when there is no credit
Version 1.6
- Updated all translations
version 1.5.5
- Updating pot file and French translations
version 1.5.4
- Changes for WordPress 4.3
- Widget can now display credits on archive pages too
- Added
template
attribute to shortcode
Version 1.5.2
- More fix related to the admin hook issue.
Version 1.5.1
- Fixed wrong hook used to initialized the admin part of the plugin causing the cusom fields not to show up or not to save when adding an image from the post editor.
Version 1.5
- Added support for a link to the license.
Version 1.4
- Added support for custom header and background images.
- Added a widget to display the credits in footer or sidebars.
Version 1.3
- Improved the support for the overlay display option
- Added templating for the individual credits
- Added a license field
- Simplified and moved around some code
- Added support for image galleries
Version 1.2
- Added Italian and Serbian translations
Version 1.1
- Added French translations
- Added Dutch translations
- Removed overlay script dependency on
jquery.tools
, replaced withjquery
Version 1.0
- Initial release