Unsplash offers WordPress users a free plugin that brings the most extensive collection of royalty-free images to your fingertips; you can use these images on your sites. The plugin's open-source software grants users quick access to millions of high-quality searchable photos that they can use on their sites as they see fit. Worrying about infringing on somebody's copyright or paying yearly fees to stock photo farms is a thing of the past with Unsplash.

The plugin has over 5,000 active installs. Best of all, you can support budding photographers around the globe by using Unsplash. Alternatives to this plugin include Pixabay Free Images, Dreamstime Stock Photos, and MicroStock Powersearch.

What is Unsplash?

Unsplash is a company owned by Getty Images that offers the public access to millions of royalty-free images. The content is crowdsourced from a network of more than 200,000 photographers. 

Photographers willingly upload photos within their profiles, tag them, include metadata, and publish them on the platform. The images are available for both commercial and noncommercial use. There’s also the option to credit the photographer if a user so wishes. However, Unsplash content can’t be sold by any party.

How the plugin works

The Unsplash WordPress plugin is incredibly intuitive and easy to use. After you install and activates the plugin, you can run keyword-based searches of the entire Unsplash library from your WordPress editor. Additionally, the plugin has been translated into 11 different languages. When you find the perfect image for your page, post, or product, the image is placed in the desired site location and saved in your media library with one click. 

This plugin saves you time sourcing images, uploading to your library, and publishing. It even offers Hotlinking capability to cut back on your site's bandwidth utilization and automatic image resizing to suit visitors' devices.

If users are publishing non-branded content, they have the option to attribute the photographer. This platform is a means of supporting the photographers who use Unsplash to share their work. 

Images for everyone

Unsplash has taken all the expense and effort out of populating a website with professional, free photography. If you can’t afford a photographer every time you need a makeover, you can definitely afford to try out Unsplash.

Using quality, attributed photography will also make your site look like a considerate, thoughtful, and credible website. We all know how important credibility is online.