Easy Watermark

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Easy Watermark can automatically add watermark to images as they are uploaded to wordpress media library. You can also watermark existing images manually (all at once or an every single image). Watermark can be an image, text or both.

See the demo

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM_0Y0oX4o0]

Plugin features

On one image you can have two watermarks! One of them can be text watermark and the other image watermark. You can control their position and size and apply them to your media independently.

  • Image watermark can be a JPG, PNG or GIF
  • Full support for transparency and alpha chanel in PNG and GIF files
  • JPG and GIF files and text can have opacity set (from 0 to 100%)
  • Text watermark is created using ttf fonts
  • Text color, size and rotation can be set
  • All built-in image sizes can be watermarked (thumbnail, medium, large and fullsize) as well as all additional sizes registered by themes or plugins
  • Plugin can create image backups and allows to easily restore images

Image watermark

Easy Watermark supports three most popular image formats for watermark: JPG, PNG and GIF. For JPG watermarks you can control the opacity as well.

Watermark can be applied in on of the 9 positions on the image and you can controll the exact sizing of it.

Text watermark

Text watermark have a powerful feature of placeholders, which can be dynamically applied to the image. Ie. you can put the name of user who uploaded the image as well as the upload date. Watermark text will be automatically generated and applied.

The plugin supports a few fonts:

  • Arial
  • Arial Black
  • Comic Sans MS
  • Courier New
  • Georgia
  • Impact
  • Tahoma
  • Times New Roman
  • Trebuchet MS
  • Verdana

You can also place the text watermark in one of the 9 positions on the image, control the angle, color, opacity and size.

Custom development

BracketSpace - the company behind this plugin provides custom WordPress plugin development services. We can create any custom plugin for you.


Releases (32 )

Version Release Date Change Log
1.0.11 2021-03-25
  • [Fixed] Watermark preview url fixed to work with non-standard WordPress installations
  • [Fixed] Error in Cache Busting feature.
1.0.10 2021-02-23
  • [Added] Role existence checks during plugin activation.
  • [Added] Filter to prevent applying certain watermark.
1.0.9 2021-02-06
  • [Fixed] Translated view file names causing missing view errors.
  • [Fixed] Errors occuring on the first plugin activation.
1.0.8 2021-01-20
  • [Added] New form styles compatible with new WordPress form styles.
  • [Added] Option to disable cache buster responsible for adding version param to image urls.
  • [Fixed] Watermark preview.
1.0.7 2020-12-31
  • [Removed] Freemius library.
  • [Fixed] Potential PHP 8 issue.
1.0.6 2020-02-21
  • [Fixed] Compatibility with other media-related plugins
  • [Fixed] Backup file paths on Windows
  • [Fixed] Bulk actions in media library list view
1.0.5 2019-10-02
  • Images will now hold information about applied watermarks which has been removed
  • [Fixed] Missing FileBird dependency
  • [Fixed] Database query error in bulk actions
1.0.4 2019-09-25
  • [Fixed] Improved error handling
  • [Fixed] "Enhanced Media Library" plugin compatibility (and possibly some other plugins which replace media library components)
  • [Fixed] Watermark delete error fixed
  • [Fixed] Source set filtering improved
1.0.3 2019-09-13
  • [Fixed] FileBird compatibility
  • [Fixed] Frontend content builders compatibility
1.0.2 2019-09-12
  • [Fixed] Media library not working with ACF plugin enabled
1.0.1 2019-09-11
  • [Fixed] Freemius screen displayed incorrectly after activation
  • [Fixed] Permission settings now actualy works
  • [Fixed] Config is now saved in unicode so you can use other character sets, like cyrylic
  • [Fixed] Incompatibilities with caching plugins
  • [Fixed] Srcset fatal error edge case
  • [Fixed] Watermark deleting
1.0.0 2019-09-10
  • The plugin has been rewrote from ground up.
0.7.1 2019-02-26
  • Security fix
0.7.2 2019-02-26
0.7.0 2018-11-11
  • Freemius integration
0.6.1 2018-07-10
  • Minor adjustments for newest WordPress version
0.6.0 2015-10-04
  • Added: backup option for watermarked images - allows to restore original image
  • Added: button to restore all original images on the plugins page
  • Changed method of watermarking all images
    • it now uses ajax and watermarks 10 images at once so it needs less time and memory per request
0.5.2 2014-04-16
  • Fix: watermarking class optimised to avoid out-of-memory errors
  • Fix: settings are now kept after deactivation
  • Fix: many small bugs in a code
  • Added: bunch of new text placeholders
  • small changes in UI
0.5.1 2013-12-17
  • fixed cooperation with front-end upload plugins (like BuddyPress Media)
  • added possibility to define which post type attachments should be watermarked on upload
0.5 2013-09-12
  • fixed issue with watermarking not selected image types on upload
  • png transparency in watermarked images is now preserved
  • added possibility to disable watermarking feature for particular roles
  • user which can only add posts (like 'author') can only add watermark to the images uploaded by him
  • introduced placeholders in text watermark
  • color picker changed to Iris (integrated with wordpress)
  • added information about image status (watermarked or not)
  • added 'Easy Watermark' column in media table and metabox on an image editing page
  • a lot of 'invisible' changes in the code
0.4.4 2013-06-20
  • repaired issue with auto-watermark option
0.4.3 2013-05-22
  • added support for additional image sizes registered by some templates or plugins (e.g. 'post-thumbnail')
0.4.2 2013-05-17
  • added possibility to define jpeg quality
0.4.1 2013-05-04
  • added an option to scale watermark only for smaller images
  • added confirmation button for 'Add watermark to all images' action
  • some changes in the code to make the plugin more compatible
0.4 2013-05-04
  • introduced watermark image scaling option
0.3 2013-04-23
  • added support for all image sizes (thumbnail, medium, large), not only the fullsize image
  • plugin now checks if the GD library is available, if not, it'll inform you about it instead of throw errors
0.2.3 2013-04-06
  • added bulk action on media library page
0.2.2 2013-04-04
  • added live text preview on the settings page
0.2.1 2013-04-03
  • some changes on settings page
0.2 2013-03-29
  • added text watermark handling
  • corrected issue with auto adding watermark on upload
0.1.1 2013-03-23
  • offset can be now also a percentage, not only pixel value
  • changed code structure
    • separete class responsible only for watermarking (can be used alone)
0.1 2013-03-22
  • Initial release