Image and Media Byline Credits
A simple way to add a byline credit to your images, media and other content.
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Stale • Last updated 311 days ago • 1 reviews
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Description
We are blessed with free resources like plugins, apps, images, audio and video. Content creators give their time, skills and love to provide us with their creations. Show your appreciation by giving due credit and a link back to the provider, this could be to their donate page, website or hosted page.
This simple and flexible plugin makes it easy for you to add a byline credit to your images and other media. You can do the following:
- Add a byline credit field when uploading media.
- Automatically display the byline credit under featured images
- Automatically display the byline credit under images added with the Gutenberg image block.
- Include an optional link to the web page of the content owner or creator.
- Add freeform byline credit via a shortcode e.g.
[byline]Picture by Green Ant Media[/byline]for more complex attribution or for a variety of media types. - Use a list of users with a specified role or a simple list to autocomplete the names on the Byline field.
- Easily apply your own styles to the byline credit.
Installation
- Upload
image-byline.phpto the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the \”Plugins\” menu in WordPress
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The byline shortcode can be used anywhere a shortcode can be used in a page or post. The shortcode takes the format [byline]Picture by Green Ant Media[/byline]. We plan to support more blocks in future, including audio, video and gallery blocks.
Yes. The byline shortcode can be used anywhere a shortcode can be used in a page or post. The shortcode takes the format [byline]Picture by Green Ant Media[/byline].
Yes. The byline credit is automatically added to the caption for the Gutenberg core image block.
As of this release, the credit is only added to the image block however you can use the shortcode to place a byline credit under the media. The shortcode takes the format [byline]Picture by Green Ant Media[/byline]. We plan to support more blocks in future, including audio, video and gallery blocks.
The byline credit gets added to the caption so if your theme is not outputting the caption for the featured image you will not see the credit. You can output the caption in your template or theme functions by using something like the_post_thumbnail_caption(get_the_ID());.
You can change how the byline credit looks by adding some custom css to your theme.
If you have added a byline credit to your image in the media library, it will be output under the image. The simplest way would be to remove the byline. However, if you want to leave the creator data with your image, you can hide the byline credit adding a class no-credit to your image block in Additional CSS class(es). This hides the credit but still displays the caption if there is one. To hide both add no-credit no-caption.
You can show the byline credit without the caption by adding a class no-caption to your image block in Additional CSS class(es).
The byline shortcode can be used anywhere a shortcode can be used in a page or post. We are considering adding a support plan in future which will allow us to support more options. If your budget allows, you can contact us for developing a custom add-on for you for a cost. And you can always donate so that we can provide more options and support to you.
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Screenshots
Byline/credit on a post featured image.
Byline and Byline Link fields in the Media Library attachment editor page.
Image Byline Options page in dashboard.
Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial version
1.1.0
- Updates for newer WordPress versions