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Dominant Colors Lazy Loading

This plugin allows you to lazy load your images while showing the dominant color of each image as a placeholder – like Pinterest or Google Images.

By manuelwieser·Images·Free
5(2 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 7 years ago
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As of April 2026, Dominant Colors Lazy Loading is a WordPress images plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Autoptimize.

5/52 reviews
100active installs
7.2K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016

Overview

This plugin allows you to lazy load your images while showing the dominant color of each image as a placeholder – like Pinterest or Google Images. It also enables you to use tiny thumbnails as placeholders. If you want to know how it works read the article Dominant Colors for Lazy-Loading Images, where I explain the general concept.

To ensure the quality of the plugin please let me know if you encounter any issues. I will reply swiftly and fix them as soon as possible!

Features

  • The plugin calculates the dominant color of an image upon upload.
  • All images attached to posts and pages are automatically replaced with placeholders and load as soon as they enter the viewport to save bandwidth.
  • Galleries added via the default [gallery] shortcode are also replaced and loaded as soon as they appea…
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

52 reviews
5 ★
2
4 ★
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3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress4.4+ requiredTested up to 5.0.25
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.8.0

  • Added an option for <noscript> tags to the admin interface. The tags add a lot of HTML, but they’re great for users with JavaScript disabled and can be good for SEO (your mileage may vary).

0.7.0

  • Added a fallback for images without wp-image-* classes. The plugin can now determine the attachment ID from the image URL, using attachment_url_to_postid. This should add support for plugins like WooC…
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

manuelwiesermanuelwieser
Plugin Info
Version
0.8.0
Last Updated
Dec 13, 2018
WP Requires
4.4+
Tested Up To
5.0.25
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
100
Downloads
7.2K+
Added
Apr 5, 2016
Business
Free

Tags

imagespinterestjavascriptlazy loadingdominant colors

Developer

M
manuelwieser
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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