Official Creative Commons plugin for licensing your content on your WordPress website. With Creative Commons licenses, keep your copyright and share your creativity.
The plugin is an attribution tool. It has multiple features that allow users to attribute their content by including Creative Commons license (Choose a License) on their WordPress website. This includes default, post, page and media attribution.
Download the latest version from this project's releases. You can install the plugin to your WP website using any of these methods:
- In your plugin Dashboard on WordPress, Click Add New and
upload the plugin
.zipfile. When installed, activate the plugin. - Extract the
.zipfile and paste the extracted folder to the "/wp-content/plugins/" directory. Go to your plugin Dashboard and activate the plugin.
After activating the plugin, head to Settings > Creative Commons to set up the default license.
Selecting a license is simple. Select one from the given CC licenses, by default CC BY-SA license is used.
There are multiple options available for the license. You can add:
- Additional attribution text for a custom note.
- Title and Title URL. If not mentioned it defaults to "the content".
- Author and Author URL. If not mentioned it defaults to "on this site".
- Display options.
There are two options to display the default license, as a widget or in the footer. We recommend using the widget for better theme compatibility.
After selecting the widget go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the CC License Widget to the required area. The widget will then display the default license on all pages of the site.
The plugin adds specific Gutenberg blocks for each Creative Commons license. If you are using the default Gutenberg editor, you will find these blocks under a separate category.
These blocks can be used to license any page/post/image or other media.
Following is an image attributed using CC gutenberg block.
At a glance, with WP CC Plugin you can:
- License your site with a default license.
- You can display the default license in the footer or as a widget in widget areas.
- Display license for the site, posts and pages license)
- License your WordPress Network (WordPress Multisite install)
- License some of your sites differently in your WordPress Network
- License some posts, pages, or images differently from your default license (per content license)
- License posts and pages by simply including CC Gutenberg blocks for each license required (Gutenberg License Blocks)
Contributions will be very appreciated. See
CONTRIBUTING.md.
If you're interested in the code have a look at the master branch for the releases. Development will be done in the develop branch.
Occasionally other branches may be available to test new features or play with new ideas, but they may be deleted anytime so don't rely on those branches.
We will release a new version every month that there are substantial changes. See milestones for how GitHub issues are assigned for release.
This plugin is loosely based on an existing, but seemingly abandoned WordPress plugin named 'License' (a component of the MIT Educational Collaboration Space project) by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) and Brett Mellor. We're also inspired by Creative Commons' original wordpress-cc-plugin written by former Creative Commons CTO Nathan Yergler.
- Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (License v0.5)
- Brett Mellor (License v0.5)
- Bjorn Wijers
- Matt Lee
- Rob Myers
- Tarmo Toikkanen
license.txt(GPLv2 or later License)