Are you concerned about being held liable for violating copyright law and would like to start crediting owners properly?
Do you want to give back to photographers and illustrators by adding image credits, so they are rightfully attributed?
Or are you a creator yourself and want to show information on the picture licenses for your image gallery under which publishers can use or purchase your work?
Image Source Control is your go-to solution when it comes to
handling copyright-protected photos and delete unused images.
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Image Credit layouts
Choose between different credit displays:
- List all image sources below the content of a specific page or place the list manually
- Show an image caption overlay above or below the image
- Embed a complete image credit list with thumbnails on your website
Frontend Features
- Display image credits in the content, for image galleries, images added by shortcodes, and featured images
- … see more listed under Premium features below
- Define the layout and position of the caption overlay
- Show the image source fully, or only on click or mouseover
- Attach the Per-page list automatically, by using a shortcode, or with a PHP function
- Display image sources on archive pages
- Link to the copyright holder and include a link to the image license
Backend Features
- Add credits for any image file uploaded to the Media library
- Dedicated image source fields for the following blocks: Image, Cover Image, Featured Image, Media & Text
- Quickly assign a centrally defined source to any image and choose three options: hide image sources for these images, show a specific source (e.g., your name), or the uploader’s name
- Warn about missing image sources
- Manage, display, and link available licenses
Featured Image Caption
ISC Lite works for Featured Images. By default, you will see the image credits options in the media library and the featured image options in the block editor.
The featured image caption shows in the Per-page list with all other image sources on the page.
Check out the premium features to display the image caption overlay for featured images.
Premium Features
Check out all features of Image Source Control.
- List credits for images outside the content
- Add multiple links to the source string
- Manage image credits for images hosted outside the Media Library
- Handle images without file extensions
- Show image usage in the image details and the List view of the media library
- Bulk-edit image copyright information in the media library
- Show the standard picture credit for all images without a selected source
- Display IPTC copyright metadata in the backend and automatically as a standard source in the frontend
- Show the full text only after a click or on mouseover on the caption overlay
- Choose which data is displayed in the Global List
- List only images with a proper source in the Global List
- Show image sources for Elementor background images, images in Kadence Blocks Galleries, and Kadence Related Content Carousel
- Developer options to show overlay captions for CSS background images
- Support for background images of the Group block
- Exclude certain images from showing the overlay by adding the
isc-disable-overlay
class
- Unused Images (see below)
- Personal email support
Extended compatibility with Elementor, Avada, WP Bakery, and other page builders
as well as with plugins like Kadence Blocks, Kadence Related Content Carousel, and Lightbox Gallery.
See Pricing.
Unused Images
Premium media cleaner features to remove unused images safely.
– Go to
Media > Unused Images to see and remove unused images
- Run an additional deep check to see if images are used in widgets, meta fields, or options
- Bulk delete unused images
- Filter the list by various states
See Pricing.
Btw., Image Source Control is a suitable alternative to the discontinued or closed plugins Image Credits, Credit Tracker, or FSM Custom Featured Image Caption.
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
e.g.
- Upload
image-source-control-isc.zip
through the 'Plugin' menu in your WordPress backend
- Activate the plugin
- Visit Settings > Image Sources for the main settings
See the
Instructions section
here.
3.1.1
- Fix: PHP notices for traits in PHP 8.1
3.1.0
- Improvement: (Pro) Captions are now working by default for image URLs stored outside the
src
attribute, which is often the case when using lazy loading.
- Improvement: (Pro) The indexer now works with cached frontends.
- Fix: (Pro) The IPTC options were disabled when deactivating the Unused Images module
3.0.0
3.0 rewrites a lot of classes mainly to split features into modules. Developers who used any classes and methods directly should test their code.
- Feature: You can now switch off modules you don’t need (Image Sources, Unused Images)
- Feature: (Pro) Run the full-content indexer to identify all images in the content. This improves compatibility with page builders and plugins that add images to the content dynamically and is useful for either Image Sources and Unused Images
- Feature: (Pro) New column with the image source preview to the Media Library list view
- Feature: New filter to list only images without sources in the Media Library list view for quickly adding missing images
- Feature: Added support for AVIF files
- Improvement: The list of images without sources now ignores images that have the standard source set
- Improvement: (Pro) Show the image path in the list of Unused Images
- Fix: Prevented a JavaScript console error in the list view
- Fix: Pages using the Global List shortcode were not counted in the page index stats
- Dev: Deprecated
ISC_Class
2.29.1
- Security: Limit the pretext for the caption preview in the backend to text only to prevent XSS attacks with manipulated links that could be executed by admin users
- Fix: When resizing the screen, right-aligned captions sometimes received line breaks. The new calculation prevents this
2.29.0
- Increased the required WordPress version to 6.0
- Improvement: (Pro) added Swiss and Austrian localizations
- Fix: a warning was thrown in WordPress 6.7 about text domains loaded too early
- Dev: hardened code against the_content being set to
null
by other plugins
- Dev: various code style improvements