Openverse is Moving!

The OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. project is switching homes to a standalone domain: https://openverse.org. This move will be completed on February 8th, 2023.

Along with the move from wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org//openverse to openverse.org, we are shipping improvements to the site’s homepage, headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes., and footer.

WordPress.org/openverse will redirect to the new domain and users will continue to be able to access Openverse from the WordPress.org header. Openverse remains an important addition to the WordPress project. For our contributors, Openverse’s staging site has already moved to staging.openverse.org as announced earlier this year.

We’re excited for the improvements to SEO and usability introduced by this change.