William Arin

AquaMark is a full-featured, professional solution for applying image watermarks to your media uploads. 
Built with a modern, robust architecture, it provides extensive control over the appearance and placement of your watermark, ensuring your brand is consistently represented across your site. 
The plugin automatically uses the best available image processing library on your server (Imagick for quality, GD for compatibility) to deliver excellent results.
<h4>Core Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Selectable Watermark Image: Choose any image from your Media Library to use as a watermark.</li>
<li>Precise Positioning: Place your watermark in any one of nine grid positions (top-left, middle-center, bottom-right, etc.).</li>
<li>Fine-Tuned Offset: Adjust the watermark’s final position with pixel (px) or percentage (%) based X and Y offsets.</li>
<li>Flexible Sizing: Control the watermark’s size with pixel (px) or percentage (%) based width and height. Supports auto-scaling.</li>
<li>Opacity Control: Set the transparency of your watermark from 0% (fully transparent) to 100% (fully opaque).</li>
<li>Advanced Blend Modes: Go beyond simple overlays with Photoshop-like blend modes, including Normal, Multiply, Screen, and Overlay.</li>
<li>Target Specific Image Sizes: Choose exactly which registered image sizes should receive the watermark (e.g., thumbnail, medium, large).</li>
<li>Image Driver Selection: Automatically uses the best image library available (Imagick or GD), with a manual override option for advanced users.</li>
<li>Destructive Action Warning: The plugin warns you if you choose to apply the watermark to the ‘full’ size image, as this is a permanent, destructive action.</li>
<li>Regenerate Watermarks: Easily apply new settings to existing images via a “Regenerate Watermarks” bulk action in the Media Library.</li>
<li>Remove Watermarks: Remove watermarks from existing images via a “Remove Watermarks” bulk action in the Media Library.</li>
<li>Developer Friendly: Includes WordPress actions and filters for programmatic extension and customization.</li>
<li>Modern & Conflict-Free: Built with modern PHP and scoped dependencies to prevent conflicts with other plugins.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
The plugin includes a variety of actions and filters for programmatic customization. For detailed documentation and code examples, please see the <code>DEVELOPER.md</code> file included with the plugin.

AquaMark

Add a custom watermark to your images in the WordPress media library with powerful controls and blending modes.

Protect Uploads

The uploads directory is where the files of the WordPress library are stored. Unfortunelty, this directory is not protected. A person who wants to see all your library could list it instantly going to : http://yourwebsite/wp-content/uploads . This plugin will hide the content by adding an index.php file on the root of your uploads directory or by setting an htaccess which will return a 403 error (Forbidden Access).
<ul>
<li>Depending on your server setting, the htaccess option could be disabled.</li>
</ul>
New in Version 0.7.0:
<ul>
<li>Site Health checks: See at a glance — under Tools → Site Health — whether your uploads directory is protected from browsing, what server you are running, and whether any risky file types are sitting in your uploads folder.</li>
<li>WordPress 7.0 ready: Fully tested on WordPress 7.0 and PHP 8.3.</li>
</ul>
All features:
<ul>
<li>Directory Protection: Stop visitors from browsing your uploads directory (index.php or .htaccess 403).</li>
<li>Image Watermarking: Add text watermarks to your uploaded images with customizable position, opacity, and font size.</li>
<li>Right-Click Protection: Prevent users from right-clicking to download or save your images.</li>
<li>Password Protection: Secure individual media files with passwords. Multiple passwords can be set for each file with custom labels.</li>
<li>Access Logging: Track who accesses your password-protected files with detailed logs including IP address and user agent.</li>
<li>Site Health Checks: Built-in protection status tests with actionable advice.</li>
</ul>
Need more protection? <a href="https://protectuploads.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Protect Uploads Pro</a> adds image watermarks with bulk operations, expiring download links, role-based access with server-level enforcement, hotlink protection, download analytics, and a Protected Download block.
Available languages:
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Français</li>
<li>Español</li>
<li>Italian (thanks to Marko97)</li>
</ul>

Do not download. The plugin has been changed not too long ago and it now infects your wordpress installation, and possible spreads itself to other sites if you are on shared hosting.

It's a virus

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