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Where to Find Images for Free WordPress Themes

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Where to Find Images for Free WordPress Themes

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  1. Where to Find Images for Free WordPress Themes For free WordPress themes to be hosted in WordPress.org or elsewhere you are mostly led to make it compliant with GPL and if one needs to make it compliant then it is essential that we use images which are either GPL compliant or go with GPL like CC0 and other licensed images which are free and don't impose any restrictions on their usage in either commercial, or personal or modification of the work. Just like scripts and fonts which are mostly available for free and have licensing systems respectively like GPL, SIL, MIT etc. Images also have certain licenses. Free stock photos, Free stock images, free images under CC0, Creative Commons images and free images for use in templates. We are going to discuss in this article resources whereby one can easily download free stock images which are allowed to be used in any commercial or personal work and hence can be used alongwith your free WordPress themes. Mostly businesses nowadays use free WordPress themes because they can't afford to open their website using the premium ones and startups need to keep their budget in check. Hence for the same reason free WordPress themes use stock photos which are free. Most sites offer images under Creative Commons Zero (CC0): http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ The following resources are useful and one can use images from these resources for their website built using free WordPress theme: Pixabay: Pixabay is a very good resourceful website for stock images. Over 510,000 images. It was founded by Hans and has all the images listed under it as Creative Commons CC0 license. You can copy, modify, distribute and use the images even for commercial purposes and attribution is not required. These are best suited for WordPress authors who build free themes. Simple as well as advanced search is provided for searching appropriate images. Also has author profiles and one can sign up to submit their own pictures. Donation is also allowed for photograph authors. PhotoPin: PhotoPin uses the Flickr API to search Creative Commons CC0 licensed images. Hence these images can be easily used by bloggers or WordPress free template users into their websites and blogs. Since it used Flickr API on some photos attribution is needed and some photos do not allow modification. So kindly check and use. In case you want to publish these photos on your blog or website then you can do so with proper attribution. On some photos no attribution is needed. Simple search bar is given for image search. StockSnap.io: StockSpan.io publishes all images under CC0 License. Hence no attribution is necessary as well as one can easily use these images in website, blog, commercial paid themes or website templates as well as for other digital purposes. This is a nice website and has views and likes so you know which image is more popular. The search is easy and various sorting methods are also given for easy sorting. Although number of photos are relatively less on this website. Unsplash: Another website with CC0 license. Search isn't that big and simple search bar is included in this website. Unsplash is also listed as an author in Pixabay so of late most of these images are included in that website. But still this site also has some unique pictures which aren't included in other website. Images are relatively lesser than the above 3 websites but the quality of these images are definitely good.

  2. Gratiosgraphy: One of the best stock free images resource. This site provides lots of HD images which look really good. They are mostly retina ready and are licensed under Creative Commons Zero CC0. Site is very fast to use as it doesn't load all the search results and requires one to scroll down. Images provided are of really great quality and you can use them on digital as well as free WordPress templates and themes. Though images provided are of less number than the above websites. It offers easy tags on the top so you can find the image of your choice. LifeofPix: Another website publishing images under CC0. Hence no attribution is required. This website is made and maintained by an Advertising agency in Montreal. Simple and easy to use doesn't have too many pictures but allows people to submit their own pictures for public domain. New photographs are added weekly. Not much time has passed by but this website is slowly becoming popular and keeping on adding more and more images to the list. Death to the Stock Photo: Although these images don't come under CC0 you can use them with attribution. Also one can buy the premium membership of $15 per month and can download and get access to all the photos at once. The TOS mention you need to write back to them for use of images in website templates or commercial purposes. Although the premium membership should allow users to use the photographs. Pic Jumbo: Pic Jumbo tagline itself mentions totally free photos for personal and commercial purposes. PicJumbo has some real quality stock photos and one can sign up for the premium of $10 per month and get access to all photos via Dropbox and download them and use them in free templates and websites and blog or digital items. This site is maintained by Victor Hanacek and the images are really noteworthy and good for use in commercial projects. KaboomPics: KaboomPics although doesn't list their images under CC0 but allows use of images in HTML/PSD or WordPress templates available for free or for sale. It doesn't explicitly require the use of attribution as well. It has lots of cool images and the above tags ensure you go to the area whichever type of images you require for download. Kaboom is maintained by Karolina of staffage.pl. She is a web designer from Poland. Close to 500 photos and pictures are available on this website and the number is slow increasing. LockandStockPhotos: A very small website with limited good free stock photos for you. This website has a simple list view to browse through all the images and check what you want. Since it doesn't have much to offer has a simple search. Only 272 subscribers are present currently on this website but the website daily keeps on posting interesting pictures. So if you want some interesting pictures daily into your inbox this website surely should help you achieve that. Hope the above resources are helpful in getting you the desired photographs for your next personal or commercial projects.

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