This featured image finder searches Pexels, Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons at once for free images for blog posts. Type what your post is about and you get up to 18 photos, each with the photographer credit and the licence its library gives, and a link to the full-size file. It's free and needs no signup. The photos load from the libraries themselves, so nothing is copied.
How to use the featured image finder
- 1Type what your post is about in a few words, such as home office desk. You can use up to 100 characters.
- 2Press Find photos. The three libraries are searched at the same time.
- 3Look through each library's photos. Under each one is its credit line and its licence.
- 4Press Open full size on the one you want, save the file and upload it to your own site.
- 5Put the credit line in the caption whenever the licence asks for one.
When to use it
- You've written a post and need a photo for the top of it before you publish.
- You want a free photo and need to know who to credit and what the licence allows.
- You'd rather search Pexels, Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons once than visit each in turn.
- A client wants photos on their blog and you need each photo's licence on record.
Worked example
A photo for a post about working from home
We searched for a header photo for a post on setting up a home office.
- Topic to find photos for
- home office desk
- Result
- 18 photos: 6 from Pexels, 6 from Pixabay and 6 from Wikimedia Commons
- Licence
- Pexels License on every Pexels photo and Pixabay Content License on every Pixabay photo. The six Commons files carried CC BY-SA 3.0 ee, CC BY-SA 3.0, CC0, CC BY 2.0, Public domain and CC BY 4.0.
- Result
- Credit lines such as Photo by Ron Lach on Pexels, Image by Firmbee on Pixabay, and Unknown Photographer on one Commons file
- Open full size
- Each link opens the file on images.pexels.com, pixabay.com or upload.wikimedia.org
Pexels and Pixabay gave modern desks, laptops and plants, and either licence lets you use them on a blog without credit. Commons is an archive, not a stock site: its six were old studies, a school classroom and a library, under six different licences. Four of them need a credit line and two of those add share-alike terms, so check the licence before you pick one. For a post about modern home offices, a Pexels or Pixabay photo was the better fit here.
What each licence lets you do
| Licence | Credit needed? | The main limits |
|---|---|---|
| Pexels License | No, though Pexels says credit is appreciated | Don't sell unaltered copies, suggest that people or brands in the photo endorse you, or put it on another stock site |
| Pixabay Content License | No, though Pixabay says credit is appreciated | Don't sell or share it unchanged on its own, or use a photo showing a brand or logo to sell goods |
| CC0 and Public domain | No | None from the licence itself |
| CC BY | Yes: name the author, link the licence and say if you changed the photo | Only the credit |
| CC BY-SA | Yes, as for CC BY | Anything you build from the photo must carry the same licence |
We read these on 2026-11-06 from pexels.com/license, Pixabay's licence summary and the Creative Commons licence pages. Pixabay says only its full licence is legally binding, and the same goes for the others, so read the full text when it matters. A photo of a person or a brand can also carry rights the licence doesn't cover.
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