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New plugin released: Easy search and use CC-licensed images for WP

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The Creative Commons image search plugin for WordPress we created in Greek School Network is now available as a plugin in WordPress.org with the name “Easy search and use CC-licensed images for WP”

The plugin helps you search millions of free photos using the Creative Commons Catalog API then insert the original image into content or set as featured image very quickly.

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The plugin’s features are:

  • Works in WordPress editor and add a button above the content text area and into the “Add Media” pop-up window.
  • Via a pop-up window, allows searching through millions of images using Creative Commons Catalog API power.
  • Allows filtering by a provider
  • Paginated results
  • Quick insert original image or thumbnail with a link to the image URL
  • Use image as a featured image for the blog post
  • WPML compatible
  • Multisite compatible
  • Translation ready (it’s already translated in Greek)
  • Tested up to WordPress 5.2 with Classic Editor plugin

As intended, we already use the plugin in https://blogs.sch.gr, which hosts more than 50.000 blogs. The plugin is available to all its blogs and users since middle May, who has been using it without any issues reported yet.

Read the complete story behind the creation of this plugin at CC Open Source Blog

 

 

The Greek Schools’ Network goes (more) WordPress – Its 1st plugin is here

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The Greek Schools’ Network (GSN – http://www.sch.gr) is the educational intranet of the Ministry of Education, which interlinks all Greek schools and provides high quality electronic services.

Among other services (such as blogging platforms), it allows teachers, schools to upload and share videos and slideshows using the http://vod-new.sch.gr and http://mmpres.sch.gr sites.

Now we go a step further.

Its 1st WordPress plugin Sch.gr Commons plugin. adds oEmbed support in WordPress posts, pages and custom post types for videos, presentations etc from the vod-new.sch.gr, mmpres.sch.gr sites of Greek Schools Network. There are no settings.

Simply, add the URL in your content editor. Just paste the given “Απευθείας σύνδεσμος” link from the “Κοινοποίηση” section of a video from vod-new.sch.gr into the content area and it will by transformed to oEmbed into your post, page or custom post type.

You can find the Sch.gr Commons into the WordPress.org repository https://wordpress.org/plugins/schgr-commons/

Copy the url from a vod-new.sch.gr video
Paste a simple url in post
The resulted embed video from vod-new.sch.gr into the post.

Embed SlideSnack presentation into your wordpress post with LS Snacktools plugin

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SlideSnack.com is a great presentation sharing tool that enables you to easily upload and share presentations online.
But there was a small “gap” if you wanted to embed your presentation into a WordPress site. You had to use iframe.  NOT any more.

With the LS Snacktools plugin you can just copy-paste the given “Link to this post” from Slidesnack.com into the content area and it will by transformed to oEmbed into your post, page or custom post type.

You can find the LS Snacktools plugin in the WordPress.org repository: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ls-snacktools/