Display placeholder Lorem Picsum images to avoid chains of 404 requests caused by an incomplete uploads directory (while developing)
As of April 2026, Super Interactive Image Placeholders is a WordPress local plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 816 times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP User Avatars.
This simple yet highly effective plugin solves a very common annoyance when developing a WordPress website locally. Often, when running a WordPress application locally for development, you don’t have the entire uploads directory at hand. This causes every page load to trigger a large amount of 404 errors, each of which are routed to expensive WordPress requests.
Super Interactive Image Placeholders will automatically replace each request for an image with a random image from Lorem Picsum, avoiding the 404 errors and speeding up local WordPress development enormously. As a nice side effect, it will also make your website look a lot nicer without all the missing images.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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