
Now that the image is uploaded, but we haven’t inserted it into the post yet, you want to go to caption. Next you’ll upload the image to your WordPress blog as you normally would.Įxcept when it shows the uploaded image in your media center you’re going to stop there. I use Photoshop before I upload it, then it’s optimized again with the Shortpixel plugin on the website. Crop it and prepare it for use on your site, just make sure the license allows for modifications. Go ahead and optimize the image using whatever method you choose. For normal blog posts I typically choose 800×533. Most images have several sizes to choose from, what you use is up to you. Now that you’ve found your image and written down the license you can go ahead and download it.

It will likely be one of the ones I mentioned above, but there are others. If it’s public domain then there is no attribution required (though it’s still nice to), if it’s anything else then you’ll need to click on that link and write down the license. If it’s a public domain image then it will look like this and say “Public domain” where the license normally is. You can find the link to the license for the image just under the date it was taken. You really don’t even have to be perfect in your attribution, give a reasonable credit to the author. All of which you can use on your blog if you credit the author properly. If there are images available for your query, then you’ll usually see images with one of the following licenses: BY 2.0, BY-SA 2.0, or BY-ND 2.0. If there are no public domain images available, then I typically go to “commercial use allowed”. I always first look for images in the public domain that require no attribution, you’ll find these under “no known copyright restrictions” in the filter tab. The first thing I do is simply go to and search for the image I’m looking for. Read all the way until the end to see not only how I credit the author’s pf these images, but also to get some helpful text snippets you can use on your own blog. Below is the process I go through when I use an image from Flickr. When using images from Flickr, we’re typically going to be using Creative Commons images. How to use images from Flickr in a blog post In this article I’m going to show you how to credit an image from Flickr in a blog post.

Just watch out for the ones you can’t use, they’re labeled “all rights reserved”. There are millions of images on Flickr, many of which we can use on our blogs. With some of my niche sites, I use quite a few images from Flickr because of the wide selection of highly specific things.
