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. 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 appear in the viewport. - A custom filter for lazy-loading thumbnails or featured images can be used in templates and themes (
apply_filters( 'dominant_colors', $image, $id )). - Dominant colors can be calculated for all existing attachments in the plugin settings.
- This has already been tested with thousands of images.
- Until the calculation is done you can specify a fallback color for your placeholders.
- All files that can’t be processed are listed during calculation and link to the particular attachment in the media library.
- You can choose between GIF and SVG placeholders.
- SVG placeholders have the same pixel size and aspect ratio as the original images, instead of being a single square pixel. This way responsive images do not need a wrapper for preserving the original aspect ratio.
- GIF placeholders are small and have great browser compatibility. They also enable you to use tiny thumbnails as described on manu.ninja for your images.
- You can set the resolution of tiny thumbnails to 3×3 pixels (120 bytes), 4×4 pixels (128 bytes) or 5×5 pixels (204 bytes).
- The plugin is compatible with RICG Responsive Images, which has been added to WordPress 4.4 as default functionality.
Demo
You can see the plugin live at http://www.karriere.at/blog/.
| Domain | Exposures | Headers | Last Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| d*m*d*m*.sk (WP 7.0.3) | F | Aug 9, 2026 | |
| m*p*n.org | D | Aug 4, 2026 | |
| m*n*r*a*i*p*c*u*e*.com (WP 7.0.2) | F | Jul 29, 2026 | |
| m*n*t*r*e*p*r*.com | F | Jul 28, 2026 | |
| t*e*e*i*n*d*t.com | D | Jul 28, 2026 | |
| p*n*h*o*-*e*l*h.com | B | Jul 26, 2026 | |
| f*s*h*r*r*i*t*.com | F | Jul 25, 2026 | |
| c*l*t*e*e*s*n*i*l*.com | F | Jul 25, 2026 | |
| c*c*u*g*o*g*i*e.com | F | Jul 24, 2026 | |
| p*t*r*i*a*d.com (WP 6.3.8) | D | Jul 23, 2026 | |
| v*l*h*a*t*.com | F | Jul 22, 2026 | |
| p*n*i*r.cc | F | Jul 20, 2026 | |
| k*s*h*p*r*n*r.com (WP 7.0.2) | F | Jul 20, 2026 | |
| k*s*h*p*r*n*r.at (WP 7.0.2) | F | Jul 19, 2026 | |
| g*u*c*l*c*g*s*h*e*e*.at (WP 7.0.2) | F | Jul 18, 2026 | |
| a*t*u*i*m*x*e*t.com | F | Jul 18, 2026 | |
| w*o*m*m*.studio (WP 6.9) | F | Jul 16, 2026 | |
| b*d*s*u*o*o*.es (WP 6.8.1) | F | Jul 15, 2026 | |
| s*a*e*l*n*e*p*r*.com | F | Jul 15, 2026 | |
| r*a*f*o*f*r*i*e.com | A | Jul 14, 2026 | |
| s*a*t*i*y*w*d*n.com | F | Jul 13, 2026 | |
| s*n*a*o*c*e*a.com (WP 5.7.15) | C | Jul 13, 2026 | |
| c*a*y*a*e*e*o*d*.com (WP 6.9) | F | Jul 9, 2026 | |
| 8*o*m*.com | F | Jul 9, 2026 | |
| b*s*h*m*g*m*e*i*w.com | A | Jul 8, 2026 | |
| v*l*e*e*e*.net (WP 6.9.4) | F | Jul 8, 2026 | |
| b*f*.film | F | Jul 6, 2026 | |
| a*e*l*h*l*g.com | A | Jul 4, 2026 | |
| s*a*d*n*v*a*r*t*i*c*n*e*.com | F | Jul 3, 2026 | |
| w*o*m*m*.co (WP 6.9) | F | Jul 3, 2026 | |
| w*o*w*l*.co (WP 6.9) | F | Jul 3, 2026 | |
| m*l*n*m*g*s.com (WP 7.0) | F | Jul 1, 2026 | |
| r*a*r*h*t*c*s.c*.uk | F | Jul 1, 2026 | |
| g*o*g*g*g*i*z*.com | F | Jul 1, 2026 | |
| n*w*o*n.productions | F | Jun 30, 2026 | |
| o*p*.net | B | Jun 30, 2026 |
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