The WordPress.com Blog had a post called Introducing: A Diverse, Free Stock Photo Library where they talk about how WordPress.com users have access to free images that they can use in posts / pages that can be accessed directly from the Add Media option under Free Photo Library on WordPress.com itself when you are making a post / page, and how they are working to be more inclusive and increase the diversity of those free images:
https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/diverse-stock-photo-library-pexels/
Unfortunately using these images requires that they be added to your Media Library when you select them so I can not use them because I use hotlinked images from sources that allow hotlinking when possible because WordPress.com free accounts have a limited amount of storage in the Media Library so I do not want to risk running out of space because I make posts for every day, but these images can be a great resource for those who do not have this concern who want to start adding free images to their posts / pages that can be added directly from WordPress.com itself now without having to find them somewhere else.
It would be nice if these images could be hotlinked as well and / or if they did not count against our storage limit because then I would use them too when possible.
Thank you WordPress.com.
The end,
-John Jr
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