Image credits in WordPress: the complete guide for German sites
Urheberrecht, IPTC, automation — everything editors need to keep image attributions correct without a spreadsheet.
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1. Store the credit once, with the image
The media library is the single source of truth. Photographer, source, license and link belong in image fields — not in captions that get deleted with the next redesign.
2. Render everywhere the image appears
A credit system must follow the image: into posts, into archives, into og:image reuse. Manual captions fail exactly there; automation from media fields does not.
3. Read what’s already in the file
Professional photos ship IPTC creator fields. Importing them on upload removes the most error-prone manual step — most credits are already in the file when it arrives.
Is a collected credits page enough?
What about stock licenses without attribution?
Image Credit Companion automates all three steps.
Media-library fields, site-wide rendering, IPTC import.
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desk9 is a one-developer WordPress shop. Every article here documents something built, measured or broken first-hand — maintaining a small catalog of plugins and themes across thousands of live sites.