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.

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Watermark RELOADED is a lightweight WordPress image watermark plugin that automatically adds a customizable text watermark to images when you upload them to your Media Library.
Use it to:
<ul>
<li>Protect your work from unauthorized reuse</li>
<li>Brand images with your site name, URL, or copyright notice</li>
<li>Keep control of your visual content with a simple, set-and-forget solution</li>
</ul>
You can:
<ul>
<li>Choose which image sizes to watermark: thumbnail, medium, large, full size</li>
<li>Customize text watermark font and color</li>
<li>Precisely control watermark position (corners, edges or centered) on the image</li>
<li>Preview your watermark before saving settings so you know exactly how it will look</li>
</ul>
The plugin adds:
<ul>
<li>A dedicated Watermark RELOADED settings page where you configure your watermark and see a live preview</li>
<li>A WordPress Dashboard widget that shows your current watermark settings and a preview of the watermark directly on the main Dashboard screen</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Automatic watermark on upload – newly uploaded images are watermarked immediately</li>
<li>Text watermarking – add copyright text, site name or any custom message</li>
<li>Custom fonts – upload your own TTF fonts to use for the watermark</li>
<li>Color picker integration – choose any text color for your watermark</li>
<li>Per-size control – enable watermarking only on selected image sizes</li>
<li>Live settings preview – see how your watermark text, color and position look in the plugin settings before they are applied to new uploads</li>
<li>Dashboard widget – quickly review enabled sizes, position, offset and a preview from the WordPress Dashboard</li>
<li>Simple, focused UI – no unnecessary settings, just what you need to protect your images</li>
</ul>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<ol>
<li>You configure your watermark text, font, color, and position in Settings → Watermark Reloaded.</li>
<li>You choose which image sizes should receive the watermark.</li>
<li>When you upload a new image through the Media Library or post editor, Watermark RELOADED automatically applies the text watermark to the selected sizes.</li>
</ol>
Existing images in your Media Library are not modified – only new uploads are processed.
<h3>Requirements</h3>
To generate watermarks, your server must support:
<ul>
<li>PHP 5.3+</li>
<li>GD extension for PHP</li>
<li>FreeType Library (for rendering text)</li>
</ul>
If any of these are missing, the plugin will show an error message so you can contact your hosting provider.
<h3>Planned improvements</h3>
The following ideas are on the to-do list and may be implemented in future updates:
<ul>
<li>Additional bug fixes and compatibility adjustments</li>
<li>Smarter handling of small images where the watermark might overflow</li>
<li>Support for watermarking additional custom image sizes added by other plugins/themes</li>
<li>Image-size aware watermarks and more flexible positioning options</li>
</ul>

Watermark RELOADED

Automatically add customizable text watermarks to new images on upload to protect your WordPress media library.

AquaMark vs Watermark RELOADED