GuardaFoto

GuardaFoto adds a simple, free photo lookup tool to any post or page. A visitor pastes a supported public link, and the tool displays the image together with every verified downloadable size returned by the GuardaFoto service.

Supported lookups include:

• YouTube channel profile photos, up to 1600 x 1600 when published by the channel.
• YouTube channel banners.
• YouTube video thumbnails, including the HD thumbnail when it exists.
• Spotify artist photos and album or playlist covers.
• Deezer artist photos and covers.
• Apple Music album and song artwork.
• TikTok profile photos and downloadable videos.
• Instagram post photos, reel covers and downloadable reel and video-post MP4 files.

Add the tool with the GuardaFoto block or with this shortcode:

[guardafoto]

To force a language for one shortcode instance, use:

[guardafoto lang="es"]

or:

[guardafoto lang="en"]

With lang="auto", or when no language is supplied, GuardaFoto uses Spanish for Spanish WordPress locales and English otherwise. Since 1.1.1 the whole plugin interface — the front-end tool, the dashboard page, the block-editor panel and the classic-editor meta box — is fully translated through the standard WordPress i18n system (text domain guardafoto), shipping with a complete Spanish translation that follows the site’s language automatically.

New in 1.1.0 — GuardaFoto inside your dashboard and your editor. The same lookup is now available where you work:

• A GuardaFoto page in the admin menu: paste a link, download each photo, or import it straight into your Media Library.
• A GuardaFoto panel in the block editor while you write a post, in the document sidebar right by the featured image and titled “GuardaFoto — Extract the photo here”: import a photo and set it as the featured image, import it and insert it into the content, or just import it to the Media Library.
• A GuardaFoto meta box in the classic editor, in the side column next to the featured-image box with the same “Extract the photo here” title and the same three actions: featured image (the featured-image box updates without reloading), insert into the content, or plain import.

The plugin adds no visible credit and no external links to the front end, and it makes no external request when it is activated or when a page is merely viewed. The external lookup described below happens only after a visitor submits a link in the tool, or after an administrator submits one in the dashboard page, the editor panel or the classic meta box.

The photographs and artwork belong to their respective owners. This plugin only helps visitors access images that the relevant platform already publishes publicly; it does not grant any licence or right to reuse an image.

External services

This plugin relies on the GuardaFoto API, a third-party service operated by A3Q Global:

• Service: GuardaFoto — https://guardafoto.com
• About the service: https://guardafoto.com/about/
• API endpoint used by this plugin: https://guardafoto.com/api/resolve
• Terms of use for the service: https://guardafoto.com/terms/
• Privacy policy for the service: https://guardafoto.com/privacy/

When a visitor enters a link and presses the tool’s button, the visitor’s browser sends only the URL that the visitor pasted to the GuardaFoto API so that it can be resolved. The plugin does not send WordPress user data, site data, cookies, post content or administrator information to GuardaFoto. GuardaFoto resolves supported links against the public information made available by the relevant platform and returns the image name, type and public image URLs.

The dashboard tool introduced in 1.1.0 (the GuardaFoto admin page, the block-editor panel and the classic-editor meta box) uses the same API the same way: when an administrator pastes a link there and runs the lookup, the WordPress server sends only that pasted URL to the same endpoint and shows the result. Nothing is sent while pages are viewed or edited.

One action goes one step further, and only when the administrator explicitly clicks it: Import. On an import click — including “set as featured image” and “insert into content” — the WordPress server downloads the image file the administrator selected, from the public platform URL that the API returned, and stores it in the site’s own Media Library as a regular attachment, exactly like an upload made by hand. The plugin never downloads code or executable files, and it never imports anything on its own: no click, no download.

Use of the images and destination services remains subject to the applicable platform terms, including:

• YouTube Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
• Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use: https://www.spotify.com/legal/end-user-agreement/
• Deezer Terms of Use: https://www.deezer.com/legal/cgu
• Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/