Search Images is a WordPress ability from The Plus Addons for Elementor — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
Install Free Plugin →Search Images
Read-onlySearches Openverse (WordPress.org) for Creative Commons licensed images, returning URLs, thumbnails, licensing info, and attribution.
Requires the The Plus Addons for Elementor plugin (which registers under the 'tpae' ability category) on WordPress 6.9+, with Elementor active. Every ability requires the current user to have the 'edit_posts' capability (and 'edit_post' for the specific post being modified); abilities that create or edit content also verify Elementor and, where relevant, the target The Plus widget are available. A subset of abilities (theme templates, template conditions, dynamic tags, popups, and some custom-code abilities) only register when Elementor Pro is active, and many widget abilities load only in the free plugin when the Pro add-on is inactive.
What it does
Sanitizes the query and passes it plus any optional filters (page, page_size, license, source, aspect_ratio, size, category) to the Openverse client's search_images call. Filters the raw API response down to a curated set of fields per result (id, title, url, thumbnail, width, height, creator, license, attribution, source, foreign_landing_url) and returns them alongside result_count, page, and page_count.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Search Openverse for wide, CC0-licensed 'mountain landscape' photos."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | Yes | Search keywords (e.g. "mountain landscape", "modern office"). |
| page | integer | No | Page number. Default: 1. |
| page_size | integer | No | Results per page (1-20). Default: 5. |
| license | string | No | Filter by Creative Commons license type. One of by, by-sa, by-nc, cc0, pdm. |
| source | string | No | Filter by source (e.g. "flickr", "wikimedia", "wordpress"). |
| aspect_ratio | string | No | Filter by aspect ratio. "wide" for landscape (recommended for hero banners/cards), "tall" for portrait/sidebar, "square" for avatars/thumbnails. |
| size | string | No | Filter by image size. One of small, medium, large. |
| category | string | No | Filter by image category. One of photograph, illustration, digitized_artwork. |
Returns
Returns result_count, page, page_count, and an array of image result objects.
Permission
check_read_permission requires the edit_posts capability.
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