Cyphex Image Hunter

Stop wasting hours hunting for the perfect stock photo, resizing it in Photoshop, and manually typing Alt text. Cyphex Image Hunter is the all-in-one AI image generator and WordPress media library optimizer designed to automate your entire visual workflow.

Cyphex Image Hunter is fully free and open source. There are no paid tiers, license keys, remote activation checks, or feature gates. Some integrations require API credentials from their respective third-party providers, and any provider usage costs are governed by that provider.

Short Description

Multi-provider AI image studio and WordPress media optimizer with stock search, WebP conversion, SEO metadata, bulk tools, and connector support.

🚀 The Ultimate AI Image Generator for WordPress

Whether you are a blogger, developer, or agency, this plugin eliminates manual media management. In one single click, you can find royalty-free stock photos, generate custom AI images, optimize file sizes for lightning-fast speed, and write perfect SEO alt text—without ever leaving your WordPress dashboard.

🧠 Smart Image Sourcing & AI Sideloading

Don’t settle for generic results. Our “Smart Search” uses Groq AI (Llama 3.3) to understand your content intent and rewrite simple prompts into highly effective search terms.
* Universal Stock Photos: Search Pexels, Pixabay, Openverse, and optional Unsplash directly inside the WordPress Media Library.
* Multi-Provider Image Lab: Generate visuals using free Puter models or configured Gemini and OpenAI image models.
* AI Image Refinement: Need a change? Tell the AI to “make it night time” or “remove the car” to tweak your generated images on the fly.

⚡ Automated WebP Converter & Image Optimizer

Speed matters for Google rankings. Cyphex Image Hunter ensures every image you upload is perfectly sized and formatted for peak Core Web Vitals performance.
* Exact Batch Resizing: Specify your target dimensions; the plugin auto-scales and crops featured images to fit your theme perfectly.
* Instant WebP Converter: Boost your site speed by automatically converting legacy JPEG and PNG uploads into ultra-fast WebP format.
* Smart Target KB Compression: Set your maximum file size (e.g., “Under 100KB”) and let our iterative AI image optimizer compress files without sacrificing visual clarity.

🏷️ AI-Powered SEO Alt Text & Metadata

Search engines love well-documented media. Our AI-SEO engine reads the visual context of your image to automatically generate:
* Contextual Image Titles: Descriptive, keyword-rich attachment titles.
* Optimized SEO Alt Text: Perfect for accessibility compliance and dominating Google Image Search.
* Smart Captions & Descriptions: Engaging captions that reduce bounce rates and keep visitors reading.
* Auto-Credit Attribution: Automatically attribute photographers from Pexels and Pixabay with clean, clickable links.

Key Features

🌟 Smart Sourcing & AI Creation

• Universal Media Tab: A seamless “Image Search” tab directly inside your WordPress “Add Media” modal.
• Groq AI Prompt Optimization: High-speed prompt engineering for superior AI image generator results.
• Multi-Model AI Support: Choose between DALL-E 3, Flux 1.1 Pro, or Stable Diffusion 3.

⚙️ Professional WordPress Media Workflow

• One-Click Media Sideloading: Automatically downloads external stock photos to your local server.
• Batch Image Resizing: Ensures all your featured images match your theme’s exact dimensions.
• Settings Link: Quick access directly from the WordPress Plugins dashboard.

Free and Open Source

Every included feature is available without a Cyphex license or subscription, including bulk library tools, Auto-Hunt, Logo Lab, model selection, API-key rotation, background removal, and monitoring. Development will continue as a fully free GPL-licensed project.

External services

This plugin relies on the following third-party services to fetch images and process AI metadata. Each service provides functionality of substance that cannot be performed locally:

1. Groq AI (api.groq.com): Used to optimize search prompts and generate SEO metadata.
   • Data sent: User-provided search queries and image context.
   • Privacy Policy: https://groq.com/privacy-policy/
2. Cyphex Image Search Proxy (cyphex-worker-image.zimswatchinternational.workers.dev): Securely forwards stock-image searches without exposing provider API keys.
   • Data sent: Selected provider, search keywords, page, result count, and orientation.
3. Pexels (api.pexels.com): Used by the Cyphex proxy to fetch high-quality stock images.
   • Data sent by the proxy: Search keywords and filters.
   • Privacy Policy: https://www.pexels.com/privacy-policy/
4. Pixabay (pixabay.com): Used by the Cyphex proxy to fetch royalty-free stock images.
   • Data sent by the proxy: Search keywords and filters.
   • Privacy Policy: https://pixabay.com/service/privacy/
5. Puter.js (js.puter.com): Used to generate images via models like DALL-E 3 and Flux.
   • Data sent: Image generation prompts.
   • Terms of Service: https://puter.com/terms
   • Privacy Policy: https://puter.com/privacy

Configuration

1. Go to Settings > Cyphex Image Hunter.
2. Enter API keys only for optional AI features such as Groq and Replicate. Pexels and Pixabay work without configuration through the secure image proxy.
3. Click Save API Keys.

Open the built-in User Handbook for a searchable, text-based guide covering every tool and connector.

Support Cyphex Agency

Thank you for using Cyphex Image Hunter and supporting Cyphex Agency. Need help with a custom project? We provide complete WordPress plugin development, custom theme development, full security and quality audits, bug fixing, performance optimization, API integrations, maintenance, and other tailored development services.

Visit our WordPress profile: https://profiles.wordpress.org/cyphexagency/

Project inquiries: [email protected]
Plugin support: [email protected]

What’s New in v3.1.0

• Added a consolidated, responsive Media Intelligence workspace.
• Added private Reuse Before Generate search across local titles, alt text, captions, descriptions, and filenames.
• Added resumable SEO, file-health, rights-risk, and exact-duplicate reporting.
• Added bounded broken local image URL detection across published content.
• Added preview-first, reversible Safe Rename with operation-ledger records.
• Added editable creator, source URL, and licence metadata to attachments.
• Added a live standards-based image sitemap and permissioned media REST report.
• Added a weekly local audit snapshot and wp cyphex media-audit command.
• Added capability-filtered WooCommerce product context without requiring WooCommerce.
• Preserved the 3.0.1 exact-resize, deterministic target-compression, and Auto-Hunt layout fixes.

What’s New in v3.0.1

• Restored exact-dimension resizing when both width and height are supplied.
• Made target-size compression deterministic by testing each quality from an untouched source snapshot.
• Corrected Auto-Hunt editor-sidebar spacing, wrapping, controls, and narrow-screen alignment.

What’s New in v3.0.0

Cyphex now creates non-destructive WebP and AVIF siblings for full images and registered sub-sizes, serves them through picture markup with original fallback, and adds backup-first EXIF/GPS privacy controls for new uploads and bulk processing.

The v2.6 release series expands Cyphex into a multi-provider creative media suite.

• Image Lab: Generate with Puter, Gemini Nano Banana, and OpenAI GPT Image models from a responsive bento workspace.
• Connector Hub: Configure optional providers, prefer wp-config.php constants, and test connection health and latency.
• Expanded Stock Search: Use Pexels, Pixabay, Openverse, and optional Unsplash with creator and license metadata.
• Complete Text Handbook: Search a designed in-plugin manual instead of loading obsolete screenshot galleries.
• Official Profile Navigation: Agency links now use the Cyphex Agency WordPress.org profile for Playground compatibility.