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The Top WordPress Watermark Plugins

There is no doubt that any well-built WordPress blog is going to get an amount of SPAM and visitors that are there for purposes other than enjoying your blog. While this is traffic, it is not really the kind of traffic that a blog wants. One of the reasons that a visitor night visit your blog is to steal your images. Generally this is not a problem, but it can lead to issues. If they are placed on a site that gets a better view in the search engines, then you could lose traffic.
There are various ways to handle the images on your site. One of the best ways is a watermark. A watermark, if you do not know, is a series of words printed very lightly across an image or document. If you have seen “confidential” written in red across a piece of paper in a movie, then you have seen a watermark.

One of the great things about image watermarks is that it turns your image thief into an advertiser. Now, every time a person takes an image from your site and places it on theirs or on their social media account, they are also showing whatever text it is that you want to share. This can be your web site title or URL or even a phone number for your business. This is the magic of the watermark. This is why you want to install a watermark plugin for your WordPress blog.

1. Watermark

Watermark
This is a great plugin for a few reasons. It actually uses the server to place the watermarks on your images. That means that your images, stored on your blog, are not changed in any way. You can access them in your usual manner, whether that be FTP or upload and download through the backend. However, the image that is displayed on the site and image that a person would download through their browser context menu would have the watermark.

This is great if you are an artist or provide images for sale. If a person right clicks and downloads a picture, it will have the watermark, but, if they download through a conventional download plugin, the image would not have the watermark. Many sites that offer images for sale have to maintain two separate groups of images, one with the watermark and one without. This is not necessary with this plugin. On the downside, there are a few server side includes that are needed and those may not be available with some hosting accounts.

2. Easy Watermark

Easy Watermark
This is our other favorite plugin. The reason we like this one is because it automatically handles each image file as it is uploaded. There are other plugins that need to be used on each image separately. If you upload a lot of images, this is the plugin for you. You install it, configure it once and let it do the work. There is no need to check a box on each upload or any extra work at all. It even works on multiple uploads.

This is beyond a doubt the easiest plugin to use. It can be up and running within a matter of seconds. There is very little mess and very little fuss. Bear in mind that this does change the images as they go into the server folder, so make sure that you keep a copy for yourself of the original image.