The guideline for embedding an image with an embed code to your blog in Wordpress is a must-read article for those people who wants to insert the images that they like on Getty Images to their posts or blogs on Wordpress.
Imagine when you want to add some photos about the events or stuff that are related to your posts on Wordpress but you don't have the chance to take a photo on your own. Then you have to google it for more photos and most of the cases, you found what you are looking for. However, some of those might have this sentence: “Images may be subject to copyright.”. Do you want to mess around with this illegal problem? Probably not.
Lucky for you, Getty Images appears as a rescue because it will allow you to embed images into your post in a legal way.
Let's go straight to the main point here and see what are included in the image embedding procedure!
1. Getty Images information
For some of you who don't know, Getty Images is a stock photography company with a huge supplier of images. Photos on Getty Images can be spanned over one hundred years which means that you can collects photos from the past to present. Most of the photos on Getty Image are qualified, conversable and always available for publication or other uses when a license is purchased.
Although the use of their images typically costs around $500 a piece, which is not a comfortable amount for some people, Getty Image offers most of their images for free to be embedded in non-commercial websites and blogs.
Scroll down to figure out the embedding process in Wordpress. Don't hesitate because it is quite simple, though it took me a few tries to get it right the first time.
2. Embedding an image with an embed code
Since Getty Images can no longer be embedded by pasting the URL to the image. The method using the Embed Code from Getty Images is the only way the image will display on your site. It includes six steps on the whole.
Firstly, you need to direct to the Getty Images website by the link https://www.gettyimages.com , which can not be forgotten.
Secondly, it's your job to search for an image you would like to embed on your page, post, or text widget. I hope that you will find the suitable one because as long as there’s something worth photographing, chances are they’ll have an image of it.
Thirdly, move your mouse to the image you would like to use, there will be a box appears which offers you the embed option.
Fourthly, look at the embed option and then click the embed icon if available because some images may be restricted to this function.
Fifthly, you will see a box appears after clicking the icon and then copy the code from that box.
Sixthly, as usual, after copying code, you need to paste it into your post or page using a Custom HTML Block, or a text widget. It will automatically be converted to a WordPress.com embed code for you. There is an example of the code below:
Conclusion
The preceding step-by-step instruction is to help you to embed an image on Getty Images with an embed code to your blog in Wordpress. A few times of practicing will help you. We hope that you find it helpful to follow the guidance. Please let us know if there is any problem so far.
