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How to Watermark Photos for Free (Desktop, Phone, and WordPress)

Photographers often find out their work has traveled the hard way: a repost of their photo turns up, cropped and filtered, with their name nowhere on it. A watermark won’t make that impossible, since anyone determined enough can crop or edit it out. What it does is keep your name on the photo wherever it…
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How to Add a Lightbox to WordPress (Free and Pro Options)

A visitor taps one of your gallery thumbnails. What opens next decides whether they keep looking or leave. Without a lightbox, that tap can land them on the bare image file, alone on a blank page. To see the next photo, they have to find the back button first. A lightbox opens the photo large…
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WordPress Image Optimization Guide for Photographers

Slow photos cost you visitors and rankings. Pick the right format, serve next-gen formats, compress without losing quality, and write alt text that works.
What Is Lazy Loading? How to Lazy Load Images on Your WordPress Site

What Is Lazy Loading? How to Lazy Load Images on Your WordPress Site

Speeding up your site can make a huge difference in user experience and conversions, but making a media-rich site load quickly can be a challenge. This is where lazy loading comes in. Learning how lazy loading works and how to add it to your site can make a huge difference, but it’s remarkably easy to…
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New in Imagely: Connecting Stripe Now Takes One Click

Most photographers do not stop selling their work because of the photos. They stop at the payment setup, because it is the step that looks like someone else's job. Imagely already took most of that away: prices, cart and checkout all live on your own site, with no second plugin to buy. The one piece…
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How To Hide Password Protected Galleries From Displaying In Recent Posts

Many Imagely users take advantage of protecting their galleries with passwords. This is done using the WordPress feature for password protection of posts and pages. A use case for doing so might be implementing a proofing gallery for a client, or a private gallery of family photos. By default, if you create a blog post…