Free Assets Library – Openverse/Pixabay 600+ Million Images
Changelog
2.3.0
Fix: Openverse images now load again — restored after the previous upstream API host was retired.
New: Image searches now route through the central Free Assets Library API at https://images.surror.com. Popular queries serve from a shared edge cache, so repeat searches feel noticeably faster.
Improvement: The bundled Pixabay API key has been removed from the plugin. The key now lives only on the central API, eliminating a long-standing shared rate-limit concern across all installs.
Improvement: Updated compatibility for WordPress 7.0.
Improvement: Removed the deprecated internal usage-tracking module and the legacy admin welcome-notice module. Cleaner admin UI, smaller plugin footprint. Privacy and terms now live at https://surror.com/privacy/ and https://surror.com/terms/.
Internal: Plugin response-parsing updated to handle the new unified API envelope. Existing filter UI (license, orientation, color, safe-search, editor’s choice) is unchanged.
2.2.1
Improvement: Updated compatibility for WordPress 6.3
2.2.0
New: Added the license and use by filters for the Openverse.
New: Added the safe search, orientation, category, and color filters for the Pixabay.
Improvement: Added the attribute support for all the Openverse licenses which includes: Public Domain Mark, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND.
Improvement: Display the downloaded image into the UI to avoid repetitively download same image.
Improvement: Added a quick download button into the images grid.
Improvement: Media library popup UI improvements.
2.1.3
Improvement: Updated compatibility for WordPress 6.2.2
2.1.2
Improvement: Display the welcome message on the image search screen.
Improvement: Avoided the default search result for the WordPress images.
Fix: Weekly cron schedule repetitively scheduled.
2.1.1
Fix: Added the missing files from the build.
2.1.0
New: Added support to download images into the WordPress media popup.
Improvement: Updated compatibility for WordPress 6.1.1
2.0.2
Improvement: Updated compatibility for WordPress 6.1
Fix: Added the missing Loadash JavaScript file dependency.
2.0.1
Improvement: Improve the code with latest PHPCS rules.
Improvement: Users can now share non-personal usage data to help us test and develop better products.
2.0.0
New: Added support for Openverse images.
New: Added support for Pixabay images.
New: Updated the UI.
1.4.2
Improvement: PHPCS and linting Improvements.
1.4.1
Improvement: Fixed PHP warning for required parameter.
Improvement: Updated compatibility for WordPress 5.9.3
1.4.0
New: Added colors filter to filter images by color. See https://maheshwaghmare.com/doc/free-images-for-wordpress/#filter-images-by-color
1.3.0
New: Added the SafeSearch option to get only images suitable for all ages. Suggested by @Steve
1.2.3
Improvement: Updated compatibility for WordPress 5.5.
1.2.2
New: Downloaded the 1280xauto image by default. We also have a choice to download the 640xauto image size. Reported by @krstarica.
Improvement: Search result string messed up with the quick doc link.
Improvement: Removed <span class=”info”>…</span> part form the image caption. Reported by @krstarica
1.2.1
Improvement: Register the download images page only for the upload_files user permissions. Reported by Steve.
1.2.0
Improvement: Added the original author name into the alt tag of image.
Improvement: Added documentation link.
1.1.1
Improvement: Showing images with 500 ms timeout.
Improvement: Added WordPress compatibility 5.4.
1.1.0
New: Added 640xauto image size download option.
New: Added 1280xauto image size download option.
Improvements: Removed unwanted markup and improve the UI.
1.0.1
Improvements: Images takes too much time while loading due to large images.
