Openverse is an extensive library of stock photos, images, and audio that have all been made available for free use by the WordPress project. Openverse provides access to free CC licensed and public domain images from sources such as Nasa, SpaceX, Wikimedia, Flickr and WordPress.
With the release of Instant Images 5.1, we’ve added an integration for Openverse using their official developer API that brings access to all of Openverse right inside of your WordPress dashboard.
Instant Images now offers API integrations with Unsplash, Openverse, Pixabay and Pexels, providing access to millions of high-quality images in a single WordPress plugin.
Openverse Features
Sources
Browse images from popular image sources such as WordPress, Flickr, Nasa, SpaceX and StockSnap.
Orientation Filtering
Narrow down your results by using the orientation filter to filter by Square, Tall or Wide images.
Image Search
Use the powerful Instant Images search to run a query on all Openverse data sources. After searching you can narrow your results further by Image Type, Extension, Orientation, License and License Type.
Wrapping Things Up
Instant Images has been an extremely fun project to work on for the WordPress community and we hope the addition of the Openverse integration brings even more value to everyone who uses the plugin. In a future release, we hope to add Openverse API authentication and registration allowing users to register for API keys inside of their WordPress dashboards.
If you have any questions or feedback on Instant Images or Openverse leave them in the comments below.