PhotoFetch Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download

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Plugin Description

This plugin adds a “Photo Directory” search UI to wp-admin that talks to the
public Photo Directory REST API at:

https://wordpress.org/photos/wp-json/wp/v2/photos

You can search, preview, and import photos directly into your own Media
Library, where the imported image behaves exactly like any regular upload
— usable as a featured image, inside blocks, in a gallery, etc.

Entry points:

• Media > Photo Directory — a dedicated search/browse admin page.
• “Photo Directory” button next to Add Media in the classic editor.
• “Photo Directory” tab inside the native WordPress media picker itself
  (Set Featured Image, Add Media, an Image block’s Media Library button,
  etc.) — works in both the classic and block editor, since they share the
  same underlying media picker.

Notes for developers

• This is an unofficial integration with a public but not formally
  documented API. includes/class-photofetch-api.php::normalize_item() is where
  the raw JSON from the Photo Directory gets mapped into predictable
  sizes/alt/author fields — it tries several plausible shapes
  (media_details.sizes, an embedded featured-media object, a bare
  source_url, etc.). If wordpress.org changes the API’s response shape,
  this is the one function that should need updating.
• Title and alt text are sourced independently: alt text prefers a real
  alt-text field if the API exposes one, otherwise falls back to the same
  text used for the Description field (see PhotoFetch_API::normalize_item() for
  the exact priority order). It’s never derived from the title. For title,
  known upstream placeholder strings (currently “Photo Detail”, “Untitled”,
  “Untitled Photo” — see photofetch_generic_title_placeholders filter) are
  treated as no title at all, and a fallback title is derived from the
  photo’s slug instead (e.g. red-fox-in-snow → “Red fox in snow”). If
  the slug itself isn’t usable, the title falls back to “Untitled photo”.
• The attachment’s Description field (post_content) and alt text both get
  the photo’s full description text; its Caption field (post_excerpt) gets
  only the photographer credit line (e.g. “Photo by Jane Smith, via the
  WordPress Photo Directory.”), or is left empty if no author name is
  available.
• The search/browse picker UI doesn’t display each photo’s title — many
  photos on the Photo Directory only have a slug-derived fallback title
  (see above), which isn’t meaningful to show while browsing. The title is
  still set on the imported attachment; it’s just not shown in the grid.
• Imports are deduplicated: each imported attachment gets a
  _photofetch_source_id meta value, and re-importing the same photo returns the
  existing attachment instead of downloading it again.
• Image format conversion (Settings > Photo Directory,
  PhotoFetch_Settings::get_format()) happens in
  PhotoFetch_Importer::maybe_convert_image(), right after download and before
  sideloading. It re-checks wp_image_editor_supports() at import time
  rather than trusting the stored setting outright, and falls back to the
  original file on any failure.
• Search results are cached for 5 minutes via transients to avoid hammering
  the upstream API on repeat searches.
• All photos on the Photo Directory are released CC0 (no attribution
  required), but the plugin stores the original photo URL and author name
  (when available) as _photofetch_source_url / _photofetch_source_author attachment
  meta for your own reference, in addition to the caption credit above.

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