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Updated Oct 2026

Find and use stock photos

Search stock photos and videos without leaving PostSignOff. The ones you pick go straight into your media library.

Before you start

Stock search has to be set up for your account. If it isn’t, the picker still opens, but it shows a message instead of photos. See “If something goes wrong” below.

Steps

  1. Open the stock picker. Where you find it depends on where you are:
    • On the Media page, select Add media, then Add from stock.
    • In the Create Post dialog, under Image, select Select from stock.
    • On a post’s page, select or add from stock next to the image drop area. On a phone, tap ＋ Add image, then Add from stock.
  2. The picker opens with photos already showing. It runs a cheerful search for you, often with a word from your brand’s name or description. Sometimes it also filters by one of your brand colors. So there’s always something to look at before you search.
  3. Use Photos or Videos to switch media types. Switching clears anything you’ve already picked.
  4. Type a search term. The results update a moment after you stop typing, or you can press Enter.
  5. To match a color, select one of the Color: chips. Pick Any, one of your brand colors, or the custom color swatch. Color only works for photos. With Videos on, the chips are grayed out and the picker shows “Color search isn’t available for videos”.
  6. Select the items you want. You can pick up to 10 at a time. Try an 11th and you’ll see “You can add up to 10 items at a time”.
  7. Select Add N items. The items go into your media library, and you’ll see “Added N items to your library”. For one item it says “Added 1 item to your library”. Then the picker closes. If you opened it from the Create Post dialog or a post’s page, the items are added to that post too.

Credit for the photographer

Each photo and video shows the name of the person who made it, right under it. Select the name to open that item’s page on the stock site in a new tab.

The credit stays with the item after you add it. Open it on the Media page, and under the preview you’ll see a line like “Photo by {name} on Pexels”. Both names are links.

If something goes wrong

“No stock providers configured — set PEXELS_API_KEY on the server to enable Pexels.”: Stock search isn’t set up where your account runs. You can’t fix this from your account. It has to be fixed on our side.

“Pexels rate limit reached — try again in a bit.”: The stock site is getting too many requests right now. Wait a minute, then select Retry. If you hadn’t typed a search yet, type one instead. Retry only repeats a search you typed.

“No results for “{search term}"" (the search term appears in curly quotes in the app): Nothing matched your search. Try a different or broader word.

“N imports failed: {reason}” (or “1 import failed: {reason}” for a single item): Some of the items you picked couldn’t be added. The reason shown is for the first one that failed, even if more did. Anything that worked is already in your media library. Retry only the ones that failed.

If your storage is full, stock items fail here too. The reason then starts with “Something went wrong”. Free up space first. See Manage your storage space.

In the Create Post dialog, the image tray holds up to 10 images. If you pick more stock photos than fit, the extras still go into your media library. They aren’t added to that post, though. See Add images to a post for the tray and its messages.