Free Assets Library – Openverse/Pixabay 600+ Million Images

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 52% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ bigcheesez

   2.2y ago

   thank you kindly!

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2. ★★★★★ silentwisher

   4.0y ago

   Sadly the latest update creates a dashboard message that you can’t get rid of regarding usage data submission.

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3. ★★★★★ Frank Spade

   5.3y ago

   Finding royalty free pictures can’t be easier than this way. Highly recommended.

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4. ★★★★★ wasanajones

   5.6y ago

   nice

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5. ★★★★★ aviket

   5.6y ago

   Works excellently and smoothly

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6. ★★★★★ john4jcgm

   5.7y ago

   Such a perfect, well thought(how do i say this, the lightbox work you did), fast and simplest plugin 🙂 just a suggestion: I wish there be one like this for unsplash too (or can be incorporated to this) & yes option for size too.

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7. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   6.0y ago

   What a great plugin and I don’t see any others like it. Since I use this with students in school I asked developer to add the SafeSearch option to the latest release and he did it! Now my students can safely search for images on PixaBay for the featured images I require of them on their posts. Wow!

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8. ★★★★★ shadra

   6.1y ago

   This plugin breaks the divi builder. It took hours of testing to determine this plugin was the culprit, but as soon as I deactivated it, I could once again use the divi builder to build pages on my website.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.3.0 Fix: Openverse images now load again — restored after the previous upstream API host was retired. New: Image searches now route through the central Free Assets Library API at https://images.surror.com. Popular queries se 2.3.0
2. — Version 2.2.1 Improvement: Updated compatibility for WordPress 6.3 2.2.1
3. — Version 2.2.0 New: Added the license and use by filters for the Openverse. New: Added the safe search, orientation, category, and color filters for the Pixabay. Improvement: Added the attribute support for all the Openverse licenses w 2.2.0
4. — Version 2.1.3 Improvement: Updated compatibility for WordPress 6.2.2 2.1.3
5. — Version 2.1.2 Improvement: Display the welcome message on the image search screen. Improvement: Avoided the default search result for the WordPress images. Fix: Weekly cron schedule repetitively scheduled. 2.1.2
6. — Version 2.1.1 Fix: Added the missing files from the build. 2.1.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-01-08 5K+ → 4K+ down after 287 days in tier
2. 2025-03-27 6K+ → 5K+ down after 179 days in tier
3. 2024-09-29 7K+ → 6K+ down after 341 days in tier
4. 2023-10-24 8K+ → 7K+ down after 1 days in tier
5. 2023-10-23 7K+ → 8K+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2023-10-22 8K+ → 7K+ down after 359 days in tier
7. 2022-10-28 9K+ → 8K+ down after 2 days in tier
8. 2022-10-26 8K+ → 9K+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• FLS Stock Photo Importer — installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags B
• Instant Images – One-click Image Uploads from Unsplash, Openverse, Pixabay, Pexels, and Giphy 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Image Hub – Free Images from Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexels, Openverse & Giphy 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager 90K+ installs · 5.0★ · 1 shared tag A
• Media Library Assistant 70K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• Enhanced Media Library 60K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag C

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Free Assets Library – Openverse/Pixabay 600+ Million Images: 4K+ active installs, 4.4★ (11 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/free-images