Adds a "Credit" field when uploading media to posts and displays it under the images on your blog to properly credit the artist.
As of April 2026, Media Credit is a WordPress image plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 19 reviews. It has been downloaded 65K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 34% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
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This plugin adds a “Credit” field when uploading media to posts and displays it under the images on your blog to properly credit the artist.
When adding media through the Media Uploader tool or editing media already in the Media Library, this plugin adds a new field to the media form that allows users to assign credit for given media to a user of your blog (assisted with autocomplete) or to any freeform text (e.g. courtesy photos, etc.).
When this media is then inserted into a post, a new shortcode, [media-credit], surrounds the media, inside of any caption, with t…
Does exactly what is asked of it, resources for developers, what more could you ask for?
Great plugin, does exactly what I need on my blogs. Happy to see that the developer is still working on it too. I love that you can select wp users in the credit box, this opened up a great workflow for me where I have multiple photographers contributing to my blog.
Our website uses images from the most diverse sources. This plugin helps us show in an elegant way the credits of those images. It is very simple to configure and the free support is simply excellent.
An excellent plugin that works well and provides a very professional-looking media credit below images. Kudos also to the plugin author for assisting me (and my client who edits YachatsNews.com) by quickly providing a mechanism for swapping the order of the media credit and caption (see the support forum for details.) THANKS! 🙂
Superb Plug-In. Nice backend integration. Comes with handy functions for customization.
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 6.2.9 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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