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Image Placeholders

by WordPress Performance Team on WordPress.org

Displays placeholders based on an image's dominant color while the image is loading.

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This plugin determines and stores the dominant color for newly uploaded images in the media library within WordPress and then uses it to create a placeholder background of that color in the frontend, visible until the image is loaded.

This plugin was formerly known as Dominant Color Images.

Active installations60K+

Weekly downloads

3,183+24.14%(1 week)

Version1.2.0

Last updated4/9/2025

WordPress version6.6

Tested up to6.8.1

PHP version7.2

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