In today’s age, protecting creative property on WordPress is no mean task. If you are a photographer or an artist, sharing your art might make you feel like you are losing some control over it. And if you own a WooCommerce storefront, you probably want to avoid imitations of your products popping up anywhere else. However, keeping your creations hidden or not sharing them is not the solution: protecting them is the solution. With WP Media Folder, you can share your creations on WordPress and protect them at the same time. How? Watermarks.

WP Media Folder’s watermarks ensure that even if someone takes your pictures from your WordPress blog and re-uses them elsewhere, your mark is ever-present. What’s more, if you already have a wealth of media files uploaded to WordPress, you will be relieved to learn that WP Media Folder can also apply watermarks retrospectively on existing images.

Activating and Applying Watermarks on WordPress Images

Hay dos componentes en las marcas de agua de WP Media Folder: los archivos multimedia que desea marcar con una marca de agua y la marca de agua real. Antes de que funcione algo de eso, sin embargo, deberá activar las marcas de agua para el contenido de su WordPress.

To activate watermarks, head to WP Media Folder’s settings in your WordPress dashboard. Under the rename & watermark menu, you will find a watermark tab. This tab contains all of the watermark-related settings. To enable watermarks on your WordPress media files, toggle the images watermark switch at the top of the page and save changes.

After you activate watermarks, you will need to choose an image to use as a watermark. This image will overlay your WordPress media. To choose a watermark image, use the file picker below the switch. You can choose any image file uploaded to your WordPress media library as a watermark.

The rest of the options let you specify how and where the watermark should display on images. You can fade out the watermark using the opacity, or reduce its size so it is not too obtrusive. You can also position the watermark in the center of an image or at its corners. In any case, you can add a margin around it. These are all important considerations that depend on what kind of images you upload. Make sure that you place the watermark in the right position so that it does not obstruct your media.

Most importantly, you can decide when the watermark should be applied to your WordPress images. You may find that the watermark appears too large in thumbnail or medium-sized images. Therefore WP Media Folder allows you to apply watermarks only on larger WordPress images.

It may not even be desirable to apply a watermark on every image. If you are using freely-available images that are not yours, then you probably should not be applying watermarks on them at all. On the other hand, you might want to protect pictures that yourself snapped and uploaded to WordPress.

The last section of the settings allow you to specify WordPress folders whose images should not get the watermark treatment. You can use the file tree on the right to choose which folders should have watermarks. Once you finish, save changes. WP Media Folder will automatically apply watermarks to new images when you upload them, unless you upload them to an excluded folder.

Applying Watermarks on Existing WordPress Images

Si guarda y se dirige a la biblioteca de medios de WordPress, puede que se lleve una sorpresa: todas sus imágenes están allí, pero las marcas de agua no. Si carga una nueva imagen en una carpeta habilitada para marcas de agua, WP Media Folder aplicará la marca de agua en ella. Sin embargo, es más probable que también desee aplicar la marca de agua en otras imágenes que haya subido previamente a WordPress. Eso también es posible con WP Media Folder.

Para agregar o actualizar marcas de agua en imágenes de WordPress existentes, no tienes que volver a subirlas una por una. Todo lo que tienes que hacer es volver a la pestaña de configuración de marca de agua y desplazarte hasta la parte inferior, donde encontrarás un botón de regeneración de miniaturas. Haz clic en él y espera a que termine el proceso. Alternativamente, puedes realizar el mismo ejercicio desde el menú de regenerar miniaturas en la configuración de WP Media Folder.

The thumbnail regeneration process reapplies watermarks on all existing WordPress images that match the criteria above there and then, on the fly. That means that even if an image already has a watermark, WP Media Folder will re-apply the watermark with the current positioning, margins and size settings.

Applying Watermarks to WooCommerce Products

¿Qué pasa si no eres pintor o fotógrafo, pero tienes una tienda en línea? La marca de agua de WP Media Foldertambién puede proteger tus productos, sean cuales sean. En este ejemplo, echamos un vistazo a cómo puedes aplicar una marca de agua a tu tienda WooCommerce en WordPress.

To apply a watermark to your WooCommerce product images, first upload them to the WordPress media library. If the image is large enough to have a watermark and it is not in an excluded folder. WP Media Folder should apply a watermark automatically. Make sure that WP Media Folder is set up to apply the watermark on all image sizes, including thumbnails, medium, large and full size images, so that the watermark always appears.

You can create a WooCommerce product normally and add the watermarked image to it, either as the product image or in the product gallery. When you display the product in your WooCommerce storefront, the image will appear with a watermark on it.

Protecting your creations is inconvenient, but necessary. Whether you are an artist, a photographer or a WooCommerce vendor on WordPress that is also important to note as WP Media Folder will allow us to create product galleries, with WP Media Folder it’s easier than ever to leave your mark on your creations. Simply activate image watermarks, choose a watermark and let WP Media Folder do the rest for you.

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