WP Dev Shed

Ryan Sutana

<p>Attracting links to your site is the hard part of SEO. Ideally your content will speak for itself and naturally attract links over time. But why not encourage linking by making it easy for other webmasters to link to you?</p>
<p>If you have unique and interesting images, photos, or infographics on your site the chances are that other webmasters are already picking these up and using them on their own sites. That’s great if they link back to you, but many won’t. This is why we built WP Image Embeds. It is a simple plugin designed to make it easy for other webmasters to embed your images, while at the same time linking back to you.</p>
<h3>Plugin Demo</h3>
<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs6BlW-r2AA</p>
<h3>How does it work?</h3>
<p>When you install and activate the plugin you will have access to a new option in the Customizer, Display Image Embed. Here you can choose to activate the plugin site wide on posts and/or pages. By default the plugin is not active on pages or posts.</p>
<p>If you only want to run the plugin on certain pages you can leave these site wide settings unchecked and instead simple activate the plugin on a particular page or post. This option appears on the page or post edit screen as a new meta box below the main content editor.</p>
<p>And that it is. We purposefully tried to make this early version of the plugin very simple to use. If you have any ideas on how we could enhance the plugin with additional features, please <a href="https://wpdevshed.com/wp-admin/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a>.</p>
<h3>More reading</h3>
<p>We have written more about the plugin <a href="https://wpdevshed.com/wp-image-embeds-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>, and you will find our massive WordPress hosting review <a href="https://wpdevshed.com/wordpress-hosting/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>


WP Image Embeds

Smart image SEO for WordPress sites. Passively build links back to your site by letting other webmasters embed your images on their site.

nixtool

<p>Nix Image Optimizer helps optimize your WordPress media library by converting supported image uploads to WebP automatically and giving you tools to manage existing images, generate lightweight featured images, and improve image SEO metadata.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Automatically converts new JPG, JPEG, PNG, and AVIF uploads to WebP.</li>
<li>Bulk-compresses existing Media Library images.</li>
<li>Shows compression statistics in a Media Log.</li>
<li>Adds optional watermark support before compression.</li>
<li>Generates blog-style featured images from post title, category, author name, and avatar.</li>
<li>Supports custom featured image background colors, gradients, typography, and output dimensions.</li>
<li>Auto-fills missing image ALT text and attachment descriptions from post content.</li>
<li>Includes Basic and Advanced Image SEO Metadata modes.</li>
<li>Scans and backfills existing posts with safe generated-metadata rules.</li>
<li>Includes an unused media scanner and cleaner.</li>
<li>Works with WordPress Media Library metadata and regeneration flow.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin can connect to the WordPress avatar system, which commonly uses Gravatar, when the Featured Image Generator is configured to include the post author’s avatar.</p>
<p>When the avatar option is enabled, the plugin requests the author’s avatar URL while showing the featured-image preview in the WordPress admin and while generating a featured image for a post or page. WordPress builds that avatar URL from the author’s user account email address according to the site’s normal avatar settings. The plugin downloads the avatar image from that URL so it can draw the circular author avatar into the generated featured image. If the avatar option is disabled, or if no avatar URL is available, the plugin does not request the avatar image and uses a local placeholder shape instead.</p>
<p>The avatar service is provided by Gravatar/Automattic:<br />
Terms of Service: https://wordpress.com/tos/<br />
Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/</p>


Nix Image Optimizer

Convert images to WebP with bulk compression, media log, watermarking, image SEO, featured image generation, and unused media cleanup.

WP Image Embeds vs Nix Image Optimizer