Openverse
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WordPress 6.2 Openverse Integration Updated to Upload Inserted Images
WordPress 6.2’s Openverse integration is getting some last minute changes after some contributors expressed concerns about it hotlinking images by default. The new feature, which allows users to quickly insert free, openly-licensed media into their content, and also allows users to upload external images through a button in the block toolbar, but the problem with this…
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Openverse Audio Catalog Passes 800,000 Files, Audio Support Now Out of Beta
Openverse, which was formerly known as Creative Commons Search before it joined the WordPress project, has passed an important milestone with its newly added support for audio files. The catalog has now indexed more than 800,000 audio files from across the internet and its development team has now taken audio support out of the beta phase. Visitors to…
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Creative Commons Search Is Now Openverse
Now that the project has been completed, the Creative Commons search engine has been rebranded to Openverse and now redirects to its new home at openverse.org. Users will find the revamped interface maintains the ability to search the same collections, narrowing results by use case, license type, image type, file type, aspect ratio, and much more.…
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Openverse: Why This Project Is Good for WordPress and the Web
In today’s episode of the WP Briefing podcast titled The Commons of Images, host Josepha Haden Chomphosy discussed the Openverse project with WordPress lead Matt Mullenweg. Automattic recently paid the non-profit Creative Commons organization for their Creative Commons Search engine to be hosted on WordPress.org, where there will be a community-run team taking over. They are…
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CC Search to join WordPress.org: Now called Openenverse
CC Search which is a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is finally joining WordPress with its millions of openly licensed and public domain images discoverable from over 50 different sources with audio and video soon to come. It is now under the new name Openverse. The WordPress community has finally got CC Search…