Is Media Placeholders free?

Yes, Media Placeholders is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Media Placeholders?

Media Placeholders has 70 active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Media Placeholders alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Media Placeholders include Redirection, Redirection, Smart Custom 404 Error Page. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Media Placeholders work with the latest WordPress?

Media Placeholders has been tested up to WordPress 3.6.1. It requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+.

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Media Placeholders

Name: Media Placeholders
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Weston Ruter

Redirect requests to non-existent uploaded images to a placeholder service like placehold.it or placekitten.com. For use during development.

By Weston Ruter·404·Free

5(2 reviews)

·70 active installs·Updated 11 years ago

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As of April 2026, Media Placeholders is a WordPress 404 plugin with 70 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Redirection.

5/52 reviews

70active installs

3.3K+total downloads

13 yearssince 2013

Overview

Activate this plugin to redirect all requests for missing uploaded images on your blog to your favorite placeholder image service, such as placehold.it or placekitten.com. Note that although kittens are cute, the placehold.it service is actually more useful because the background and foreground color can remain consistant across all image sizes (e.g. full size vs thumbnail in a gallery), and so it is easier to see which images in a page are related to each other. (You can change the default placehold.it service to placekitten.com by defining MISSING_UPLOADED_IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER_BUILTIN to be placekitten_color or placekitten_grayscale, or supplying those same values via the missing_uploaded_image_placeholder_builtin filter).

This plugin is for use during development only. It is expected that…

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