Add placeholders easily to widget areas during site development, with many options
As of April 2026, Placeholder it is a WordPress development plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Query Monitor – The developer tools….
This plugin contains a widget that can be used to show placeholders on widget areas where you still have to do some
work. It uses the webservice of “www.placehold.it” to generate the image.
This plugin comes in handy if you have a customer that you would like to show the layout of his upcoming website
and can use placeholders to show him the proportions and with the use of text, what comes where.
You can customize the text and the colors,
and you can add wrappers and wrapper classes. The settings page makes it possible to work with default values of your
own choice.
This plugin owes credits to: Tareq Hasan for I have used his Settings Class for the settings page.
http://tareq.weDevs.com Tareq’s Planet
After the plugin is activated you can start immediattely adding widget…
| WordPress | 2.0.2+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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