The images embedded by you on your blogs and web pages will appear as usual but you might see different visual display of the PicApp added elements appearing on top of the image.

As our community grows we get more and more ideas from our bloggers\users about their wishful readers experience . Some of these ideas are so great that we want to test them and see if indeed they create a better user experience that translate to better usage and improved royalties to content providers.

Feel free to send us any feedback you have about the different display options (good or bad…).

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Our users (being the slick bloggers they are) have updated their blogs to the 2.8.x versions (2.9 is around the corner…) and started to see slowness and issues working with the plugin. Well, hint taken!

Today we release a brand new version of the plugin, simpler, faster and compatible with the latest versions up to the current 2.8.5.

With the new version you just search:

select the image you want:

Click on the thumbnail, and, viola,  the image will be added to your post:

So go ahead and try it.

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Check it out - you can see us on minute 3:07 of the video:

Thanks for the thumbs up guys!

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A little info about ZUMA Press:

ZUMA Press, produces award-winning news, sports and entertainment content and represents some of the greatest photojournalists, media groups and picture agencies around the globe. ZUMA represents over 3,000 photographers worldwide and over 60 of the world’s best picture agencies, as well as over 100 newspapers and the daily feed and archive of 33 publishing giants. ZUMA’s photographers have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer, World Press, BOP and POYi.

Those of you who have been blogging with us for a while noticed that we are moving toward the upper-end of the content representation and have made certain changes in our content partnerships to improve the quality of the content we provide. We believe that by working with top agencies we can better insure many of the important factors such as professional keywording , global coverage , fast server respond , clear legal rights\credits and more.

Happy Blogging!
The PicApp team

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Thanks, @blognl!

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It was so great meeting up yesterday with all of you out there that are using PicApp and hearing your important feedback, questions, ideas and compliments. We were especially thrilled to meet some of our new top Bloggers who joined us since our new partnership with Wordpress.com.

If you are a Blogger, writer or want to hear more, you should definitely ping us so we can meet and show you our cool product and the amazing images we have for you (for free!). We have new widgets, new tools and exciting coming new features. Let us know that you’re here – we will stop by and say hi!

We look forward to meeting you - just email us (discover@picapp.com ) and we can set up a time and place.
For more PicApp news follow us on Twitter: @PicApp.

The PicApp team

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What does it mean?

It means great news for the 7.5MM publishers using WordPress.com who just gained access to around 20 million premium, legal images and who can now search for and embed PicApp images into their blog posts.

It means a user community that grew and became even stronger.

It means another important milestone for PicApp in solidifying its position as the ultimate source for images online:

• Images that cover any category you can think of- breaking news, sports, entertainment, travel, food, fashion, family and more.
• Premium images from the most prestigious content partners.
• Images that are licensed and legal to use.
• Images that offer opportunities for blog readers to further interact and engage with blog content.
• Images that come fully tagged to improve blog SEO.

We created this fun, cool video to illustrate the value images add to our blogs and sites, hope you’ll enjoy it.

And a warm welcoming to the 7.5MM publishers who are now part of the PicApp family.

Click here to read the Press Announcement.

Happy blogging,
The PicApp team!

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We apologize for the inconvenience; we are working to complete a new version and hoping to update the plug-in with the new version by next week!

So bear with us until the update is ready to get the best images for your blog.

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For the last few months a bunch of geeks, aka our tech team, focused on making our service more stable, simpler to use and mainly faster. We’ve listened to your feedback and requests and today we’re adding a new face to all of the great adjustments we’ve made and are proud to release a new PicApp website.

The top items on your wish list were related to website performance, search quality and image display. The new website is about those exact items.

What can you expect?

Website performance – all actions, especially running searches and grabbing image embed codes, will be super fast – searches are 5 times faster!!!

Search quality – our new search will be more accurate, stable, with a wider range of images (we added new image providers and have several others in the pipeline), a wider range of image collections (sports, science, medical etc.) and the ability to filter searches by categories for your specific blog needs.

Image display – it will be easier and faster to grab image codes and embed them in your blog, the code itself has been modified so images load faster and look better on your blog posts. We have also added “Image Thumbnail” feature, to let you use a thumbnail image as a teaser and drive traffic to the post where the full size image is displayed.

New PicApp tools – with the new website tech backbone in place, we can start releasing new and exciting tools and widgets to create new ways for you to use PicApp and for your readers to interact with your blog content. As part of our new Tools section on our home page, we are excited to release “The picapp search” which enables you to add a direct PicApp search to your personal browser – try it out! We are also extending an invitation to our loyal bloggers to join our Alpha revenue share program. In the coming weeks we’ll deploy more of these to the website so stay tuned….

Last but not least, a brand new look – we’ve re-designed our website for a slick and elegant interface with the focus on bringing you more news, new tools and gadgets, and an easier navigation for searching and grabbing the right image for your blog post.

Fewwwww…. You can see why it took a little extra time (-:

So, go ahead, check out our new website and keep the great feedback coming, that’s what made all these great improvements happen!

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