Title: Media License
Author: Octavius.rocks
Published: <strong>October 11, 2016</strong>
Last modified: April 29, 2026

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# Media License

 By [Octavius.rocks](https://profiles.wordpress.org/octaviusrocks/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/media-license.1.6.9.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/media-license/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/media-license/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/media-license/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/media-license/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/media-license/)

## Description

Extend your media files with license information. Customizable and themable.

## Installation

 1. Upload `media-license.zip` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Extract the Plugin to a `media-license` Folder
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 4. Now you can add creative common license and much more to you media files

## FAQ

### Can I extend the licenses?

Yes you can with the filter function “media_license_add_fields”.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Media License” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Octavius.rocks ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/octaviusrocks/)
 *   [ Palasthotel GmbH ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/palasthotel/)
 *   [ EdwardBock ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/edwardbock/)
 *   [ kroppenstedt ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kroppenstedt/)

[Translate “Media License” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/media-license)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-license/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/media-license/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/media-license/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/media-license/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.6.9

 * Fix: Fix a bug where image captions are doubled
 * Fix: Fix a potential bug where overwritten image caption result in the new and
   old captions appended ot each other

#### 1.6.8

 * Fix: Fix a potential jQuery Syntax error

#### 1.6.7

 * Feature: Add rich text editor tools to textarea input

#### 1.6.6

 * Feature: Add html-sanitization option to add_fields hook= 1.6.5 =
 * Feature: Add PH_CENTRAL_AUTOLOADER_DEBUG constant

#### 1.6.4

 * Feature: Add Gutenberg block options

#### 1.6.3

 * Fix: fix deprecation warnings

#### 1.6.2

 * Fix: prevent double slashes in url path

#### 1.6.1

 * Bugfix: Copy license meta to edited image

#### 1.6.0

 * Feature: Headless plugin integration

#### 1.5.2

 * Bugfix: ListOfLicenses block work with 1.4 and later

#### 1.5.1

 * Optimization: New “has-duplicate-caption” class in frontend if local and image
   captions are the same

= 1.5.0
 * Optimization: removed jQuery as dependency

#### 1.4.5

 * Bugfix: Missing alignment classes on figure wrapper in frontend fix

#### 1.4.4

 * Bugfix: Missing permission callback for rest route

#### 1.4.3

 * Optimization: moved wp-ajax to rest endpoint for better caching

#### 1.4.2

 * Optimization: list of licenses blockx update
 * Bugfix: empty post excerpt fix

#### 1.4.1

 * Bugfix: Enqueue script fix
 * Bugfix: Do not render same captions twice.

#### 1.4.0

 * Breaking change: Namespace of plugin has changed due to unification
 * Feature: New filter to provide templates with plugins
 * Optimizations: General refactorings
 * Optimizations: deprecated some functions and constants

#### 1.3.3

 * Translations: CH
 * Bugfix: translations path

#### 1.3.2

 * Feature: Filter for extending list of licenses
 * Optimization: template translation
 * Bugfix: Gutenberg captions were not handled in every case

#### 1.3.1

 * Bugfix: Do not do anything on empty caption
 * Bugfix: Gutenberg caption without wp-caption class fix

#### 1.3.0

 * Bugfix: Gutenberg support
 * Optimization: Changed default value for filter media_license_autoload_async_image_license
 * Optimization: Automatically enqueue api.js script

#### 1.2.3

 * Bugfix JavaScript
 * Same picture twice fix

#### 1.2.2

 * Ajax NoPriv typo fix
 * API JS Get Requests with paging
 * API JS flexibility

#### 1.2.1

 * No images on page fix

#### 1.2

 * Ajax API
 * global $media_license not available anymore
 * singleton pattern plugin now
 * autoload async licenses filter added

#### 1.1.1

 * Bugfix: Rendering of Public Domain and All rights reserved

#### 1.1.0

 * Theme template location changed to plugin-parts subfolder.
 * Template part file ending is now .tpl.php

#### 1.0.2

 * If no license selected no output in template

#### 1.0.1

 * Linkable author

#### 1.0.0

 * First release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.6.9**
 *  Last updated **2 weeks ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.4.8**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-license/)
 * Tags
 * [extension](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/extension/)[license](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/license/)
   [media](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/media/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/media-license/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Octavius.rocks ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/octaviusrocks/)
 *   [ Palasthotel GmbH ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/palasthotel/)
 *   [ EdwardBock ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/edwardbock/)
 *   [ kroppenstedt ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kroppenstedt/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/media-license/)

## Donate

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