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Adam Rotman

Stencil for WordPress - Create images quickly inside of Wordpress.

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Stencil for WordPress is the fastest way to design images as you post! With the Stencil WordPress plugin installed, you have access to millions of photos and premium icons, hundreds of templates and the world's easiest to use image creator.

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Adam Rotman
Maker
Hey guys! I'm Adam, co-founder of Stencil (https://getstencil.com) and excited to launch our new WordPress plugin today. Our new plugin brings the full power of Stencil to WordPress and makes creating images insanely easy, right from within WordPress as you're writing posts. I've constantly found myself hopping around between tabs trying to find graphics for blog articles, but with the new Stencil WordPress plugin, it all happens right inside the post edit screen. I've been pretty amazed at how much time this saves and how convenient it is! You don't even need a Stencil account to get started, you can take things for a spin just by installing the plugin and launching Stencil from the "Add Media" area. We think you're totally going to love this improved flow for designing images as you post in WordPress. Looking forward to your comments!
Maya Lname
@adamrotman That's an awesome update to Stencil! I used to use Canva, now use Stencil almost exclusively. One of the more laborious aspects was having to create the image in Stencil, download locally and then upload back to my site: this is going to make image creation pretty much seamless. Thank you!
Amy Shojai, CABC
@adamrotman Awesomesauce! Will share with my author and blogger peeps. This will make it so much easier to use and share. Thanks!
Lachlan Kirkwood
Love this! Any plans on integrating an image compressor? I currently design assets in @canva, then use Tiny.png to compress them. It'd be great if there was an end-to-end solution!
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@lachlankirkwood @hlwjia great points and something we took into consideration while we were developing the plugin. When you use Stencil via the WordPress Plugin, well automatically compress the image (as best we can without losing any quality) to ensure it successfully gets imported into your Media Library without running into any file size issues 😄
Gijo Varghese
An awesome product. Now I create images right inside wp! Image optimization will be something very useful. I'm not a big fan of smushit and other wp plugins. I mostly use compressor.io
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@gijo_varghese Thanks for the kind words! I don't think you'll need to use any compression either (unless you really want to), since we do all kinds of fancy and powerful compression before it gets added to your Media Library :)
Oliver Nassar
Maker
Robert Hayes
Looks great! Is this compatible with the new wordpress (5+)? Also, does Stencil handle image cropping too?
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@therobhayes Sorry for the delay; was stuck on a bus 🚌We definitely support the newest WordPress installs, along with the new Gutenberg editing style. Also, you can crop right within Stencil (including fun shapes like hearts or badges), and then export that to your WordPress Media Library, as can be seen here: Thanks for the q!
Fran Eleazer

I've used the Stencil app for over a year and it's way easier to use than Canva, PicMonkey, or any others I've tried. It looks like the plugin is exactly the same interface, just inside WordPress.

Pros:

Easy access to thousands of free pics without worrying about copyright.

Cons:

none that I can think of

Can I change the file name before side load to Wordpress Media?
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@c_ng_tr_n Unfortunately we have to give it a default name in order to import it. I'll look into if it's possible to prompt users _before_ the import to see if the name can be defined, tho.
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@c_ng_tr_n We just added support for this! Here's a screenshot of what that looks like: Thanks for the feedback!
Thinh
Love it! I'm a heavy user of Stencil, and this is a fantastic addition. I use Stencil for almost all my WordPress post featured images, this is going to make my work even better and easier. Thanks!
Jim Coyle
I'm a regular user of Stencil for several blogs and websites I manage, and I love Stencil! It's fast and smooth to use, has extensive photo resources, adjustable formatting, high-quality output. I just installed and used the new Stencil WordPress plugin on one of my sites and it was seamless. This is a great addition!
Oliver Nassar
Maker
Thanks for the kind words @ijimcoyle We're always hard at work, and have a couple new things slated for the not too distant future 😉
Samantha Vira
Looks extremely useful. Thank you for making this!
bhaveshnaik
Excellent idea, a game changer for my personal productivity. BUT, I would implore you to allow me to give the image my own file name inside stencil so that I can make it SEO friendly. This way, when I upload it to my media library, I don't have to go through extra processing and rename things. Wordpress makes it difficult to rename the file and its URL. (Or is this already doable and I don't know how to do it?) Thanks!
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@bhaveshnaik Great point and something that someone else in the comments brought up as well. I'm going to prioritize this to look into what's possible. At the moment, how do you go about renaming the file in your WordPress Media Library?
bhaveshnaik
@onassar Thanks for listening! I currently use a plugin called Media File Renamer to rename the images.
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@bhaveshnaik okay great to know. Your feedback has been echoed a couple times now. Fingers crossed we get this updated soon :)
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@bhaveshnaik We just added support for this. You can now choose the name of image file before it gets added to your Media Library. Thanks for the idea and your patience :)
Omar Zenhom
Whaaaat?!?! So, so cool. Makes content generation materials so much easier to produce right inside of Wordpress. Congrats @adamrotman !
Deepak Arora
Absolutely amazing product, founder is friendly and improving product on timely basis. 5 stars
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@deepak_arora Thanks Deepak. Always feel free to reach out to us if you have any ideas or questions 😉
Daniel Nordmark
I use Stencil more or less every day. I love how fast and simple it is to use. And to be able to create graphics inside WP makes it even better!
Michelle Harler

I was a paid canva user and made the jump to stencil and i really love it. Got used to it really quick and now I wouldn't use anything else.

Pros:

Better stock photos, more options. Better interface. Easy to use

Cons:

not as good ready made templates as others

Eva
I like your product. I use it a lot. Is there a way to link the plugin to our account and tranfer automatically what we create in stencil to the media library of our wordpress website?
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@eva_artlover Hi Eva! That's a great idea, and one that we also had. We'd love to do that, and hope to in a future version of the Plugin. For now, though, you should be able to access all your Stencil images super-quick by just switching to that tab.
Nicholas Nicholas

Lifetime Stencil Subscriber.

Pros:

Brings Stencil to WordPress

Cons:

Could use more variety in Templates and color schemes

Catarina Louçada
I really like stencil! Great app. I can create my templates and use them forever. Super easy and fast. The only “problem” is that there are not many great templates created. We have to create our own. But it’s so easy to create them that it’s not a real problem.
Oliver Nassar
Maker
@catarina_loucada Hi there! Great to hear that you're enjoying it, and apologies that you're not finding all the templates you'd like, but we're also adding more ☺️
Eric Weston
Brilliant - Stencil is a well-designed app, and the WordPress integration is so useful and efficient. Love it.