How To Credit A Photographer and Where To Add it in WordPress

What’s Covered in This Article

• What your photo credit should say
• Where to find the name of the photographer
• Where to put your photo credit in your WordPress website
• nofollow links and why you want to add one

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What Your Photo Credit Should Say

My first job out of college was as a magazine editor. Photo credits were a must.

Although many free stock photo sites say something like, ‘Attribution is not required, but appreciated,’ I like to give credit to anyone who has given me something of value for free. Here’s what I recommend:

Photo courtesy of (name of photographer) from (name of stock photo house)

Click here for a list of my favorite free stock photo houses.

Where To Find the Name of the Photographer

• Go to the site where the image is located (such as Pexels, Pixabay, Unsplash, etc.)
• Click on the image
• Look for the following information

1. Photo URL
2. Photographer’s name
   NOTE: Click on the name of the photographer to bring up the page with his/her URL

To save time, copy & paste the photo URL and the photographer’s URL into a simple text document like this:

Where To Put Your Photo Credit

The following instructions are for WordPress

1. In the Description field of your photo (see below)
2. Optional: At the end of your Post or Page enter “Photo courtesy of (name of photographer) from (name of stock photo house)”
3. If required by the photographer or stock photo house: As a caption beneath the photo

Add Photographer Credit As A Caption

Sometimes photographers ask you to add their attribution under the photo. To do this…

1. Insert your image into your Post or Page
2. Add the photo credit where it says “Write caption…”
3. Click Update or Save Draft to save your change

nofollow Links and Why You Want To Add One

If you must give a photographer or a stock photo house a credit by linking to the photographer and/or stock photo house website in your post or page, Google might think you are just trying to get attention and accuse you of spamming.

You can still create a link to the photographer, or photo stock house BUT you will need to tell the Google robots NOT to follow the link.

The solution is to create a nofollow link.

How To Add a nofollow Link in Gutenberg

1. In your WordPress Post or Page add your photo
2. Under “Write caption…” enter your photo credit as recommended by the stock photo house
3. Select the name of the photographer and click on the link icon
4. Paste the URL to photographer in the link field
5. Click the Link Settings option
6. Click “Open in New Tab” box so your visitor does not lose your page
7. Click Apply to add the link
8. Repeat steps 4-7 if you want to add a second credit for the stock photo house
9. Now, open the HTML editor by clicking on the 3 dots on the menu bar
10. Choose Edit as HTML
11. Add your nofollow link(s) by typing in nofollow as indicated below. Be sure to add a space after “nofollow” and before “noreferrer”.
12. Return to your visual editor by clicking on the 3 dots on the menu bar
13. Save your changes

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