The first thing you need to do when you want to install a new WordPress plugin is to login to your site admin page. Once there, go to Plugins -> Add New. Click "Upload Plugin" button and upload the zip file from your local hard drive.

Imgur.com is a popular image hosting and sharing platform where users can upload, share, and view images, GIFs, memes, and videos.

If you have a large number of users, you may want to restrict access to your WordPress media library in Palleon WordPress Image Editor. Since Imgur is a free image hosting platform, you can use it to store images of you and your users without worrying about server fees!

Sign Up / Sign In

If you don't have an account on Imgur, click here...

Register an App

To get started create an Imgur account and register your app from Register an Application page.

"Authorization type" must be "OAuth 2 authorization with a callback URL".

"Authorization callback URL" must be Palleon backend or frontend (if enabled) url on your website.

Get Your ClientID and Client Secret

After registration complete, you can get Client ID and Client Secret from your account page.

Copy Client ID and Client Secret and paste to the related fields on the settings page.

Is Imgur API Free?

Creating an Imgur account and using the Imgur API is free. But the Imgur API uses a credit allocation system to ensure fair distribution of capacity. Each application can allow approximately 1,250 uploads per day or approximately 12,500 requests per day. If the daily limit is hit five times in a month, then the app will be blocked for the rest of the month. The Imgur API also limit each user (via their IP Address) for each application, this is to ensure that no single user is able to spam an application.

If you need higher limits or planning to to use the API commercially, you may want to consider switching to the commercial API. To do that, you must subscribe a plan on rapidapi.com. After the subscription is complete, go to Palleon Settings -> Furcifer, set "API Version" to "Commercial (Rapid API)" and enter your "Rapid API key".

To access a user's account, the user must first authorize your application.

Open Palleon and go to New Image -> Select From Media Library -> Imgur. By clicking "Authorize" button, the user will be directed to Imgur.com. After clicking "Allow access" button, the user will be directed to "Authorization callback URL" (which must be your Palleon backend or frontend url on your website).

The authorization process is one-time. Once authorization is complete, the user simply clicks on the “login button” to log in to Imgur.

Logged-in users can save their images to Imgur by clicking "save or download" button.

Users can view all Imgur images in a separate tab in the media library. Users can upload images to imgur without leaving Palleon by clicking the upload image button. The image grid automatically refreshes after the image is loaded.

Image Details

By clicking the edit icon, users can view image details, copy the image's URL, update the title and description, and share the image to their Imgur account. Shared images (galleries) can be viewed publicly on Imgur.com.

The Albums tab contains all the tools users need to view and organize their albums.

ADD TO ALBUM: Select the album, select the images you want to add to the album and click the "Add Image" button.

CREATE ALBUM: Enter the album title, select the images you want to add to the album and click the "Create Album" button.

SHARE ALBUM: Shared albums can be viewed publicly on Imgur.com. Title and album fields are required.

DELETE ALBUM: Select the album you want to delete and click the "Delete Album" button.

Filestack’s File Picker, which not only allows you to upload files from your local computer but it also integrates with the most popular social media networks, like Facebook or Instagram, commonly used storage solutions like Google Drive or One Drive and stock image providers like Unsplash.

Create an account on Filestack Developer Portal account. For more information click here.

Copy your API key and paste to the related field on the settings page. Choose the services you would like to display to your users so they can upload files from and set maximum allowed image size in bytes. 1000byte = 1MB

If your API key is valid, you will find a new tab on the media library popup.

How To Replace WordPress Media Library With Imgur or Filestack?

If you have a large number of users, you may want to restrict access to your WordPress media library. Since Imgur and Filestack are free image hosting services, you can use them to store images of you and your users without worrying about server fees.

You can disable access to WordPress Media Library from Palleon settings -> Logged In Users -> Media Library setting.

Which File Formats Are Supported?

Palleon Image Editor only supports JPG, PNG and WEBP files. Other file types such as GIF, MP4 etc. are filtered in search results.