Nick Halsey

This plugin creates a fullscreen slideshow that displays randomly-selected pictures from your media library. Designed to display pictures related to your business/organization in the background at an event or in your office, there is no need to configure any settings or controls. Image captions/descriptions are automatically displayed as well, and can be configured based on your needs.
Once activated, you can view the slideshow by visiting <code>http://yourdomain.com/slideshow</code>. All JPEG images will be displayed (since .jpg is best for pictures, while .png and .gif are typically used for graphics).
Please note that it is not currently possible to pause the slideshow or go back; the slideshow is not designed for personal viewing. However, clicking/tapping on the image will open its attachment page in a new tab, allowing images to be contextualized or edited easily.
The slideshow can also be embedded into your site via a widget or a shortcode.
You can control some options by adjusting the url of the slideshow. Parameters are controlled via query string (and widget options and shortcode attributes).
<ul>
<li><code>size</code> is the size of the image to load, either <code>thumbnail</code> (discouraged), <code>medium</code>, <code>large</code>, <code>full</code>, or <code>auto</code>, which uses medium or large depending on <code>wp_is_mobile()</code>.</li>
<li><code>year</code> is the 4-digit numeric year in which the images were published.</li>
<li><code>month</code> is the numeric month in which the images were published (between 1 and 12), typically but not necessarily used in conjunction with <code>year</code>.</li>
<li><code>mode</code> defines a subset of images to use, such as <code>featured</code> for featured images only.</li>
<li><code>captions</code> controls the captions display: either <code>auto</code>, <code>none</code>, <code>title</code>, <code>titlecaption</code>, <code>caption</code>, or <code>description</code>. Caption data is read from the image attachment post and can be updated in the media library.</li>
</ul>
Using all options, for example: 
http://example.com/slideshow?size=full&year=2014&month=4&mode=featured&captions=titlecaption
You can see it in action <a href="http://uscasce.com/slideshow" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.

Content Slideshow

This plugin creates a fullscreen slideshow that displays randomly-selected pictures from your media library. Designed to display pictures related to y …

Thomas Hoefter

WPscoop

<a href="http://wpscoop.com/wp-inject" title="Free plugin to insert images into WordPress posts" rel="nofollow ugc">ImageInject</a>, previously called WP Inject, allows you to easily insert photos and images into your WordPress posts. Search among many thousands of free creative commons images for any keywords of your choice, then pick the best of them for the article you are working on and insert them into your post or set them as featured image! Best of all it is super fast: Injecting an image only takes 3 clicks in total!
No further setup is required after installing ImageInject. You can start inserting photos right away! To do so the plugin adds an easy to use search metabox to your WordPress editor (“Add New” post screens). Simply enter any keyword to find great photos for your post.
Advanced users can head to the ImageInject settings page and fine tune the plugin. A lot of different options let you control most aspects of how ImageInject finds and inserts images into your posts. By editing the templates you can control exactly how the photos and automatic attribution will look on your blog!
Have a look at my <a href="http://wpscoop.com/wp-inject/#docs" title="How to insert images with ImageInject" rel="nofollow ugc">tutorial on how to install and use ImageInject</a> to get started with the plugin. Besides explaining the basics the tutorial also contains details on all the available settings in ImageInject and how the plugin works together with WordPress SEO by Yoast.
<h4>2019 Update</h4>
After a long hiatus I finally found the time to update ImageInject. The latest version 1.17 fixes common issues with Flickr not working and ensures compatibility with the latest WordPress versions. The plugin works with the Classic Editor plugin as well as with the new Gutenberg editor, however for the time being the Gutenberg integration is relatively basic and uses the same old metabox. Once I get more comfortable with Gutenberg I will consider further improvements.
<h4>Supported Image Sources:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Flickr – Over 200 million creative commons images. Attribution is automatically added where required.</li>
<li>Pixabay – More than 150,000 high quality public domain photos. No attribution required for any of them!</li>
<li>More sources will be added in the future to bring you even more free images for your blog posts!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Search thousands of creative commons photos and include any into your posts.</li>
<li>Fast and easy: Inserting images takes 3 clicks and less than a minute!</li>
<li>Automatically adds the required attribution links next to the image.</li>
<li>Set the featured image for your post with a single click.</li>
<li>Insert multiple images at once and create whole galleries! </li>
<li>Choose between several image sizes easily.</li>
<li>Modify the templates of ImageInject to change how images get displayed in your posts.</li>
<li>Images are saved to your own server and added to the WordPress media library.</li>
<li>Automatically populated ALT and title tags of the image for search engine optimization.</li>
<li>Search for many different keywords and compare the results to find the best matches.</li>
<li>Can use and insert your focus keyword set in WordPress SEO by Yoast for easier image search optimization.</li>
<li>Display attribution in WordPress caption shortcodes right next to inserted images.</li>
</ul>
ImageInject has also been implemented into <a href="http://cmscommander.com/" title="Manage WordPress faster!" rel="nofollow ugc">CMS Commander</a>, my service that allows you to manage any number of WordPress blogs from a single dashboard.

ImageInject

We installed it at a group blog where, after an outlandish but still potentially expensive threat of lawsuit for copyright infringement, we adopted a policy of using properly credited rights-cleared images. It quickly became a favorite of editors and writers, and an essential tool. Takes a little bit of work to understand and configure correctly, but overall it's very easy to use. If the developers added Wikimedia search, I'd need six stars.



Terrific Plug-In and Can Save You a Lot of Money/Anxiety, Too

Easily insert images and photos into your blog posts! ImageInject searches the huge Flickr database for creative commons photos related to any topic.

Content Slideshow vs ImageInject