By Peter PutzerMedia Credit Plugin
Adds a "Credit" field when uploading media to posts and displays it under the images on your blog to properly credit the artist.
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This plugin adds a “Credit” field when uploading media to posts and displays it under the images on your blog to properly credit the artist.
When adding media through the Media Uploader tool or editing media already in the Media Library, this plugin adds a new field to the media form that allows users to assign credit for given media to a user of your blog (assisted with autocomplete) or to any freeform text (e.g. courtesy photos, etc.).
When this media is then inserted into a post, a new shortcode, [media-credit], surrounds the media, inside of any caption, with the provided media credit information. Media credit inside this shortcode is then displayed on your blog under your media with the class .media-credit, which has some default styling but which you can customize to your heart’s content.
You can also display all the media by an author on the author’s page. See more in the FAQ.
Options
This plugin provides a few options which appear on the Media page under Settings. These options are:
- Separator
- Organization
- Display credits after post
Example
This is best explained with an example. With a separator of ” | ” and an organization of The Daily Times, media inserted will be followed with a credit line appearing as follows, with the username linking to the author page for that user:
John Smith | The Daily Times
Further explanation
Separator: These are the characters that separate the display name for a user on your blog from the name of the organization, as described below. The default separator is ” | ” but feel free to change this to suit your needs.
Organization: This is what appears after the separator as listed above. The default organization is the name of your blog.
Display credits after post: With this option enabled, media credit shortcodes will not appear by default when inserting media into your posts. Instead, the plugin will look through the content of your posts for any media attachments and display something like the following at the end of each post with the CSS class .media-credit-end:
Images courtesy of John Smith | The Daily Times, Michael Scott and Jane Doe.
In this example, John Smith is a user of your blog, while the latter two credits are not.
Screenshots
Media can easily be credited to the creator of the media with the new Credit field visible when uploading or editing media
Media credit is nicely displayed underneath photos appearing on your blog
Recent media items attributed to an author can be displayed nicely on the author's page using a very simple template tag (see the FAQ for more information)
FAQ
Add this to your theme’s functions.php file to get rid of those pesky
[media-credit] shortcodes:
<?php function ignore_media_credit_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) { return $content; } global $shortcode_tags; if ( ! array_key_exists( 'media-credit', $shortcode_tags ) ) add_shortcode( 'media-credit', 'ignore_media_credit_shortcode' ); ?> Also, I’d really appreciate it if you gave us some feedback as to why you disabled the plugin and how it could have better suited your needs.
Indeed, just call the template tag <?php \Media_Credit::display_author_media( $author_id ); ?> in your theme’s author.php (or elsewhere, if you want). The template tag has optional parameters if you want to customize the CSS or text. The default options will display thumbnails of the 10 most recent media items credited to the given user floated to the right with a width of 150px and a header of <h3>Recent Media</h3>.
These options can be changed with a more verbose call to the function: <?php \Media_Credit::display_author_media( $author_id, $sidebar = true, $limit = 10, $link_without_parent = false, $header = "<h3>Recent Media</h3>", $exclude_unattached = true ); ?>. This will make only the 10 most recent media items that are attached to a post display with the given header taking up the maximum width it’s afforded. Each image will link to the post in which it appears, or the attachment page if it has no parent post (unless $link_without_parent is set to false). If you don’t care about whether the media is attached to a post, change $exclude_unattached to false. This function as a whole will only display media uploaded and credited to a user after this plugin was installed.
I’m so glad you asked; you certainly can! Just call <?php \Media_Credit::get_html( $attachment ); ?> with an attachment id (int) or WP_Post object for an attachment to get the media credit, including a link to the author page. To echo the results, call <?php \Media_Credit::html( $attachment ); ?>.
Yep! If you would prefer plain-text rather than a link for all media credit (and leaving out the separator and organization), call <?php \Media_Credit::get_plaintext( $attachment ); ?> which uses the same parameter as above. To echo the results, call <?php \Media_Credit::plaintext( $attachment ); ?>.
You sure can. Just add the link attribute in the media-credit shortcode, found in HTML view for a post, or directly when adding an image. For example, if your post contains:
[media-credit name="Artist" align="left" width="300"]<img src="https://www.mysite.com/files/2010/09/image.jpg" width="300" height="450" class="size-300 wp-image-2" />[/media-credit] change it to:
[media-credit name="Artist" link="https://www.artistwebsite.com/" align="left" width="300"]<img src="https://www.mysite.com/files/2010/09/image.jpg" width="300" height="450" class="size-300 wp-image-2" />[/media-credit] Note the link to www.artistwebsite.com above.
Unfortunately, this is a known bug in JetPack that can only be fixed by Automattic. As a workaround, use a different plugin for posting to social networks. Alternatively, if you make sure that you haven’t got any images with credits within the first 55 words of your article, you should be fine, too.
Feel free to get in touch with us about anything you’d like us to add to this list by leaving a message in the WordPress.org support forums here.
Changelog
4.3.0 (April 1, 2023)
- Feature: Media Credit is now fully compatible with PHP 8.2.
- Bugfix: Author queries now use capabilities instead of the deprecated
'who' => 'authors'. - Bugfix:
run_wptexturizefilter now can be used even after the plugin is initialized. - Change: WordPress minimum version increased to 5.9.0.
- Change: PHP minimum version increased to 7.4.0.
4.2.1 (July 30, 2021)
- Bugfix: Don’t eat content between multiple shortcodes on save and switch between visual and HTML mode in the classic editor.
4.2.0 (July 22, 2021)
- Feature: A shorter label for credits displayed at the end of a post can be enabled via the new filter hook
media_credit_at_end_use_short_label(Images:instead ofImages courtesy of). - Feature: The automatic linking of user credits to the WordPress author page can be disabled with the new filter hook
media_credit_disable_author_urls. - Feature: Media Credit is now fully compatible with PHP 8.0.
- Bugfix: The credit overlay cannot be selected any more by accident in the classic editor.
- Bugfix: Several visual glitches in classic editor have been fixed and parsing has been made more robust.
- Bugfix: Credit width is set properly for custom image sizes when editing image properties in the classic editor.
- Bugfix: Organization and separator are set correctly when adding a user credit via the image properties dialogue in the classic editor.
- Bugfix: Autocomplete works reliably again in Media Library.
- Bugfix: Credits can be deliberately set to be empty again when credits to WordPress authors are enabled (had been broken since 4.0.0).
- Bugfix: No more
Notice: register_rest_route was called incorrectlyduring plugin initialization. - Change: WordPress minimum version increased to 5.2.0.
- Change: PHP minimum version increased to 7.0.0.
- Change: Support for Internet Explorer 11 has been dropped.
- Change: A fabulous new plugin icon designed by Johanna Amann.