Title: Embed Wikimedia
Author: samwilson
Published: <strong>August 28, 2018</strong>
Last modified: October 19, 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Embed Wikimedia

 By [samwilson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samwilson/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/embed-wikimedia.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/embed-wikimedia/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/embed-wikimedia/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/embed-wikimedia/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/embed-wikimedia/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/embed-wikimedia/)

## Description

The **Embed Wikimedia** plugin adds support for embedding photos from Wikimedia 
projects such as Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata.

It requires no configuration, and to use you just add a URL of any of the above 
sites on its own line in a WordPress post or page.

Development is on Github at [samwilson/embed-wikimedia](https://github.com/samwilson/embed-wikimedia);

please report all issues there.

## Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

 *   Wikipedia
 *   Wikidata

## Installation

Install in the usual way.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Does exactly what it says on the tin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin-94/)󠁿

 [wongm](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wongm/) March 29, 2019

For years I’ve been manually linking images hosted on Wikimedia Commons: copy + 
pasting the image URL, description page URL, and author attribution into blog posts.
No need for that with this plugin – just paste the URL to the photo into your blog,
post, and it does all of the magic!

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/embed-wikimedia/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Embed Wikimedia” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ samwilson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samwilson/)

“Embed Wikimedia” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/embed-wikimedia/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Embed Wikimedia” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/embed-wikimedia)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 0.2.0

 * Add block-editor support.

#### 0.1.0

 * Initial beta release.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.3.1**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.2.24**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-wikimedia/) and [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/embed-wikimedia/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/embed-wikimedia)
 * Tags
 * [commons](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/commons/)[embed](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/embed/)
   [photos](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/photos/)[wikimedia](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wikimedia/)
   [wikipedia](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wikipedia/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/embed-wikimedia/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/embed-wikimedia/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/embed-wikimedia/reviews/?filter=4)
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## Contributors

 *   [ samwilson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samwilson/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/embed-wikimedia/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](https://donate.wikimedia.org/)