Eduard Stehlík

<p>We have developed a plugin, so you don’t have to be worried about being liable for violating the copyright law and not crediting<br />
image authors.</p>
<p>This plugin adds a small overlay to images with the source and link.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Choose from 4 overlay positions. Top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right.</li>
<li>Add links or simply leave only source name.</li>
<li>Change overlay positions depending on image</li>
<li>Enable on all pages or only post pages.</li>
<li>Translate to your language with ease.</li>
<li>Choose between dofollow and nofollow for links.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Set default options in settings</li>
<li>Navigate to media library</li>
<li>Select image</li>
<li>Scroll down to our custom fields with source name and source url</li>
<li>Enter image source and optionally url</li>
<li>All set</li>
</ol>


Image Source Overlay

With Image Source Overlay you can manage image sources in media library. Plugin will then generate small overlay for every image crediting the origina …

Zack Katz

<blockquote><p><strong>WordPress 3.4 Supports HTML in Captions!</strong><br />
Basic HTML support has been added to the caption field in the image uploader. This allows you to add links – great for photo credits or licensing details – and basic formatting such as bold and italicized text.
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<h3>For WordPress 3.3.2 and earlier…finally you can add links to your image captions.</h3>
<p>Adding links to captions is the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/view/top-rated" rel="nofollow ugc">9th most popular request</a> in the WordPress Ideas forum.</p>
<p>With this plugin, you can also <strong>use <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">shortcodes</a> in captions</strong>.</p>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>Inside the <code>caption</code> input, you can now add a link by using the following format: <code>{a href="http://www.example.com"}Anchor text here{/a}</code>, or alternatively you could use <code>{link url="http://www.example.com"}Anchor text here{/link}</code>.</p>
<p><strong>You can also specify <code>target</code>, <code>title</code>, and <code>rel</code> attributes:</strong> <code>{link url="http://www.example.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="I never could do this before!"}Anchor text here{/link}</code></p>
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<h4>You may also be interested in:</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rich-text-tags/" rel="ugc">Rich Text Tags</a></strong> – Enable rich text editing of tags, categories, and taxonomies. Add value to your tag & category pages and improve your website’ SEO.</p>
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Links in Captions

Easily add links to image captions in the WordPress editor.

Image Source Overlay vs Links in Captions