How to Automatically Watermark Images in WordPress

Why watermark images in WordPress?

Watermarks are translucent logos, text, or patterns that cover an image. Watermarks are designed to be obvious but subtle so that users are not disturbed when viewing photos, but cannot download and use the files without purchasing them. This prevents unauthorized use of your images by others, thus preventing image theft.

You can also use your website's logo, URL or tagline as a watermark to increase brand awareness and make it easier for users to remember where they saw the image.

Similarly, if you sell photos online, then you can use watermarks for all your free downloadable images. This means that if users want to use your images without watermarks, they have to buy them. Next, let's take a look at how to automatically add watermarks to images in WordPress.

Method 1: Use Envira Gallery to add watermarks to images in WordPress

Envira GallerymarketMore Popular WordPress Gallery Plugins, a plugin with watermarks. It lets you create beautiful, mobile-friendly image galleries on your WordPress site with drag-and-drop builder, gallery templates, tags, audio, social sharing and lightbox effects. Take note, Envira Gallery has a free version. However, a paid version of the plugin is required to achieve the desired results.

The Envira Gallery plugin needs to be installed and activated. Once activated, visit the Envira Gallery " Settings page on your WordPress dashboard and enter the authentication key.

You can find this information in your account on the Envira Gallery website.

Once you've done this, from the WordPress admin sidebar go to theEnvira Gallery " Addons page.Here, scroll down to find the Watermark plugin and click the "Install" button next to it.

Now you can add images with watermarks to the responsive gallery. This is done as follows:

Go to the WordPress backend, find and click on "Envira Gallery"Next, go to the "Add New" page and give the gallery a name. Next, you will see the "Currently in Gallery" section, so click on the "Watermark" tab on the left. Then, check the box next to "Enable watermark?" next to it.

Now, you can click on the "Select Watermark" button, which will open the media library. Here you can select an image that you want to use as a watermark. It is recommended that you choose an image that is approximately 150 x 150 pixels, as this size will give you the best results with your watermark. Once selected, you can also adjust the position and margins of the watermark image.

Once you're done, you can upload your images directly by clicking the "Select Files from Computer" button at the top of the page. Of course, if you want to select images from your existing media library, you can click the "Select files from other sources" button. But be careful, you can only upload one image at a time from your media library.

Next, you can make a series of settings, such as adjusting the effect, adding descriptive text to the images, making the gallery display properly on your phone, and personalizing the gallery to your liking. When you're satisfied, just click the "Publish" button at the top to save your settings.

Now you can easily add image galleries to your WordPress posts or pages. It's as simple as opening the post or page you want to add an image gallery to and then see the "+" Add Block button in the top left corner? Click on it and a block menu will pop up. Next, just find and click on the "Envira Gallery Block".

Once you've completed this step, select the image gallery you've created from the drop-down menu within the gallery block and you'll be able to add the gallery to your post or page.

Finally, click the "Update" or "Publish" button to save your settings.

Method 2: Watermarking Images in WordPress with Easy Watermark

Installation and activationEasy WatermarkPlugin. Once activated, access it from the WordPress dashboard"Tools" "Simple Watermark" page, and then switch to the "Watermark" tab.Then, click the "Add New Watermark" button. Happily, this plugin is a free plugin.

After clicking on it, you will enter a new interface where you can start setting the watermark name. The watermark can be an image or text, this time we choose text as the watermark.

It's very simple, just fill in your favorite phrase under the "Watermark" option, and you'll be able to set up the watermark easily.

Next, you can scroll down to the "Text Options" section. Here you can adjust the font size, color, skew angle and transparency of the watermark as you wish to make it fit your needs.

Once these settings are complete, you can go to the "Alignment" section and choose where the watermark will appear on your image to make sure it fits perfectly into your image.

Then, you can go to the "Apply Rules" section, which will help you choose which sizes of WordPress images you want to watermark.

For example, if you want to watermark all the thumbnails on your website, it's simple and easy to check this option.

Check the "Auto Watermark" option to automatically watermark images as they are uploaded. You can also choose which images and post types to apply the watermark to.

Manually adding a watermark to an image

If you don't think it's a good idea to automatically watermark all your uploaded images, Easy Watermark also provides an option to add a watermark manually. Simply switch to the "Watermarks" tab and click the "Edit" link under the watermark you just set up to start adding watermarks manually. This gives you more flexibility in controlling which images need to be watermarked.

After entering the "Edit" interface, just scroll down to the "Auto Watermark" section and uncheck the "Apply this watermark automatically when images are uploaded" option.

Once you have completed these settings, remember to click the "Save" button at the top so that your settings are saved.

Next, access theMedia "librarypage and select the image you want to add a watermark to. Once you have done this, select the "Watermark" option from the drop-down menu in the upper left corner of the screen.

Next, you can select the previously created watermark from the drop-down menu on the left. Once you have selected the watermark, click the "Apply" button to save the settings. This way, the watermark will only appear on the image you selected, which is very convenient.

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