Tag: Openverse

  • Openverse Wins 2023 Open Education Award, Seeks Community Feedback for 2024 Roadmap

    Openverse Wins 2023 Open Education Award, Seeks Community Feedback for 2024 Roadmap

    Openverse has landed an Open Education Award for Excellence in the Open Infrastructure category. Open Education Global (OEG) is a non-profit organization that supports the use of open education to expand education access and affordability. Its annual awards recognize outstanding contributions to the Open Education community and its network of resources. Openverse is one of…

  • Mojeek Search Engine Adds WordPress’ Openverse to Image Search

    Mojeek Search Engine Adds WordPress’ Openverse to Image Search

    Mojeek, a UK-based privacy-oriented search engine, has added Openverse to its image search. For more than 15 years, Mojeek has provided independent, unbiased search without tracking or building profiles on users. It is one of just a handful of genuine search engines that uses its own technology and algorithms, unlike the metasearch engines that syndicate…

  • WordPress 6.2 Openverse Integration Updated to Upload Inserted Images

    WordPress 6.2 Openverse Integration Updated to Upload Inserted Images

    WordPress 6.2’s Openverse integration is getting some last minute changes after contributors expressed concerns about it hotlinking images by default. The new feature allows users to quickly insert free, openly-licensed media into their content. It also allows users to upload external images through a button in the block toolbar, but this creates an extra step…

  • Learn WordPress Publishes New Lesson Plan on Contributing to Openverse and the WordPress Photo Directory

    Learn WordPress Publishes New Lesson Plan on Contributing to Openverse and the WordPress Photo Directory

    Learn WordPress, the project’s official free learning resource site, is rapidly expanding the number of available courses, workshops, and lesson plans available to the community. Since its launch in December 2020, contributors have added five full courses, more than 90 workshops in multiple languages, and 85 lesson plans for users to learn asynchronously at their…

  • Jetpack 10.8 Introduces QR Code Post Sharing, Adds Openverse Media Provider

    Jetpack 10.8 Introduces QR Code Post Sharing, Adds Openverse Media Provider

    People have been asking if QR codes are dead for the past decade, but their relevancy has only increased as digital life becomes more vibrant. eMarketer forecasts that the number of US smartphone users scanning QR codes will increase from 83.4 million in 2022 to 99.5 million in 2025. QR codes are even more popular…

  • Creative Commons Search Is Now Openverse

    Creative Commons Search Is Now Openverse

    The Creative Commons search engine has been rebranded to Openverse and now redirects to its new home at wordpress.org/openverse. Users will find the revamped interface maintains the ability to search the same collections, narrowing results by use case, license type, image type, file type, aspect ratio, and more. The Openverse search engine is also now…

  • #10 – What’s in WordPress 5.9, and What Is Openverse?

    #10 – What’s in WordPress 5.9, and What Is Openverse?

    On the podcast today we have something new. Until now I’ve interviewed one person at a time, but today there’s three people on the call, Birgit Pauli-Haack, Marcus Kazmierczak and Zack Krida. So WordPress 5.9 is just around the corner. Initially scheduled for release in December 2021, it has now been pushed back until January…

  • #5 – Robert Jacobi on Why He’s Putting Gutenberg First

    #5 – Robert Jacobi on Why He’s Putting Gutenberg First

    On the podcast today we have Robert Jacobi. Robert is Director of WordPress at Cloudways. He’s been working with open source software for almost twenty years and so today we have a broad discussion about his ‘Gutenberg First’ approach as well as how the project is evolving. We also chat about WordPress events and Openverse.

  • Openverse: Why This Project Is Good for WordPress and the Web

    Openverse: Why This Project Is Good for WordPress and the Web

    In today’s WP Briefing podcast episode, The Commons of Images, host Josepha Haden Chomphosy discussed the Openverse project with WordPress lead Matt Mullenweg. Automattic recently paid the non-profit Creative Commons organization for their Creative Commons Search engine. However, WordPress.org will host it, and there will be a community-run team. Openverse will be the name of…