Lazy loading plugin that supports images, iFrames, video and audio elements and uses the lightweight lazysizes script. With manual modification of the markup it is also possible to lazy load background images, scripts, and styles.
Lazy loads (without the need of any manually modifications):
- Images inserted via
img
or picture
in posts, pages, Custom Post Types, Text Widgets, …
- Post thumbnails.
- Inline background images.
- Or all images and other enabled media in the markup (that is not excluded or already has a lazy loading attribute), via the option to process the complete markup.
- iFrames.*
- Video elements.*
- Audio elements.*
*
Can be enabled in the plugin options.
The plugin comes with the following options (under Settings › Media › Lazy Loader options):
- Do not lazy load elements with specific CSS classes (you can use the class
skip-lazy
by default).
- Add filters that should be processed by Lazy Loader.
- Enable lazy loading for iFrames.
- Include the lazysizes native loading plugin that modifies images and iFrames to use the native lazy loading feature of browsers that already support it.
- Include the lazysizes unveilhooks plugin that adds support for more elements, for example, video and audio elements.*
- Enable lazy loading for the poster frame of video elements.
- Enable lazy loading for audio elements.
- Enable lazy loading for inline background images.
- Display a loading spinner.
- Disable the plugin on specific posts/pages (this shows a checkbox in the edit view of all public post types (except attachments) to disable lazy loading for an entire post).
- Process the complete markup of the site.
- A textarea to modify the default lazysizes config values.
* The unveilhooks extension of lazysizes supports more than video and audio elements, but you need to manually modify the markup to use it for:
- Background images not inserted with inline styles.
- Scripts.
- Styles.
The plugin adds a
noscript
element as fallback for disabled JavaScript (can be disabled with the
lazy_loader_generate_noscript
filter).
You can disable lazy loading for elements with specific CSS classes by defining them via the plugin settings (
Settings ›
Media ›
Lazy Loader options). Or use the
skip-lazy
class or the
data-skip-lazy
attribute.
skip-lazy
and
data-skip-lazy
also work on wrapper elements to exclude the wrapper and its children from being processed.
8.2.0 – 14.04.2024
Tested with WordPress 6.5.
Added
lazy_loader_generate_noscript
filter to allow disabling of noscript
element generation.
Fixed
- Updated
mastermind/html5
dependency to latest version, which fixes a PHP deprecation notice.
8.1.1 – 20.12.2022
Tested with WordPress 6.1.
Fixed
- Disable lazy loading in TranslatePress editor.
8.1.0 – 29.03.2021
Added
- Support for input elements of type
image
.
8.0.0 – 22.03.2021
Removed
- Processing of
wp_get_attachment_image
, introduced in 7.2.0. I just noticed that processing that filter by default may break cases where a wrapper element has the skip-lazy
class to disable lazy loading for contained media elements. Lazy Loader is not aware of this when processing wp_get_attachment_image
, because it cannot check the parent elements. If you want to process that filter with Lazy Loader, you can enter it in the settings field for additional filters.
7.2.3 – 17.03.2021
Fixed
- Stop processing embeds, because the lazysizes script is not loaded in the iframe and so the image in the embed can not be lazy loaded.
7.2.2 – 17.03.2021
Fixed
- Duplicate images in Ultimate Addons for Elementor widget – thanks @kaggdesign.
7.2.1 – 09.03.2021
Fixed
- Missing JS files in SVN repo.
7.2.0 – 08.03.2021
Tested with WordPress 5.7.
Added
- Process
wp_get_attachment_image
filter that was added in WordPress 5.6.
Changed
- Updated lazysizes and its plugins to 5.3.0.
Fixed
- Use same escaped version of SVG placeholder for
src
and srcset
to fix a HTML validation error.
7.1.0 – 04.11.2020
Changed
- Add timestamp of file modification as version query string to Lazy Loader JS files instead of WordPress version.
Fixed
- Problem with Lazy Loader being active in Oxygen Builder editor.
7.0.0 – 10.08.2020
If you depend on the aspectratio script of lazysizes somehow that came with the plugin, this release has a breaking change: it removes the aspectratio option (and the script) because it uses inline SVGs as placeholders that have the same effect without needing the aspectratio script.
Added
- Disable core lazy load funcionality that comes with WP 5.5.
lazy_loader_attrs_to_strip_from_fallback_elem
filter that allows to provide an array of HTML attributes that should be stripped from the fallback element in the noscript
element.
Changed
- If
width
and height
attributes are present, the plugin uses an inline SVG to prevent content reflow – thanks to WP.org user lozula.
- Updated lazysizes and its extensions to version 5.2.2.
Fixed
- Problems with inline HTML comments in
script
tags. To fix that. inline script elements are no longer wrapped in HTML comments during markup processing to hide them from the parser. That was necessary for DOMDocument()
but is not needed when using Masterminds\HTML5()
(what Lazy Loader does).
Removed
- Aspectratio option. The change with the inline SVG makes that obsolete.
6.0.1 – 01.05.2020
Changed
- Added empty default value for the
$content
param of Plugin\filter_markup()
method to prevent a fatal error that occurs sometimes when Lazy Loader is used with the Content Cards plugin.
- Check if there is already a script with the
lazysizes
handle registered and deregister it before enqueuing own version. Fixes issue with Avada theme that includes own version.
6.0.0 – 31.01.2020
This release requires PHP 7
Added
- Option to process the complete markup of a page instead of only parts of it via the filters (might take a little longer because the plugin needs to process more markup and, if your site contains HTML errors, lead to unwanted behavior, because the DOM Parser tries to correct that).
- Option to define additional filters for the plugin to process.
- Ignore patterns for
skip-lazy
class and data-skip-lazy
attribute. Use them if you want Lazy Loader to ignore an element and its children. The disable-lazyload
class and data-no-lazyload
attribute will keep working for backwards compatibility. Adding the new class and attribute goes back to an initiative by Frank Goossens, developer of Autoptimize, who reached out to several devs of lazy loading plugins or plugins that also have a lazy loading feature to get a standard class and attribute across multiple plugins.
- Added donation link to plugin header.
Changed
- Updated required PHP version to 7.0.
- Security improvements via escaping and specifying allowed HTML in setting descriptions. Thanks @igmoweb
- Simplified
Plugin\add_noscript_element()
method. It just clones the source element now, instead of creating a new empty element and adding all attributes to it.
- Check markup for
[caption]
shortcode to prevent duplicated images in Elementor.
- Class properties are private now.
Fixed
- Error with invalid attribute names in
Plugin\add_noscript_element()
method.
5.1.2 – 12.11.2019
Changed
- Updated background image option text.
5.1.1 – 11.11.2019
Changed
5.1.0 – 11.11.2019
Added
- Lazy loading of background images.
- Lazy loading of videos with autoplay.
Changed
- Updated lazysizes and its extensions to 5.1.2.
- Updated tested up to version to 5.3.
Fixed
- Handle rest api requests with edit context as admin requests (thanks @websupporter!).
- Check if a post type supports
custom-fields
before loading block editor script.
5.0.0 – 28.06.2019
Changed
- Increased priority for the calls of
the_content
and post_thumbnail_html
filters from 500
to 10001
to fix issues with the ShortPixel Image Optimizer. So if you use those filters and they need to run after the Lazy Loader, you need to increase the priority, too. This is the change that makes it a major version change.
Fixed
- Audio shortcode stripped from frontend with all following content.
4.1.0 – 31.05.2019
Tested with WordPress 5.2
Added
- Option for using the native loading extension from lazysizes.
- Textarea for custom lazysizes config values.
Changed
- Updated lazysizes to 5.1.0.
- Use CSS variable
var(--lazy-loader-animation-duration)
for duration of fade-in-effect after loading.
Fixed
- Do not load assets on pages where Lazy Loader is disabled.
- Preserve HTML and hex entities.
- Ignore inline scripts.
- Skip images that already have a
data-src
attribute.
- Checkbox for disabling Lazy Loader not showing for Custom Post Types added via a plugin.
4.0.1 – 20.02.2019
Fixed
4.0.0 – 20.02.2019
Tested with WordPress 5.1.
Changed
- Renamed object in main plugin file from
$plugin
to $lazy_loader
to make it accessible via the theme.
- Added an example for calling the
filter_markup()
method of the plugin from the theme to modify markup of not-supported image functions like wp_get_attachment_image()
.
-
Updated lazysizes to 4.1.6.
Fixed
-
Wrong year in changelog for 3.5.0 and 3.5.1. Thanks @pra85!
- Correctly remove the plugin options from the options database table on uninstall.
3.5.1 – 28.01.2019
Fixed
- Wrong version number in plugin file.
3.5.0 – 28.01.2019
Added
- Option to disable lazy loading for specific posts/pages via a checkbox. The checkbox can be enabled via an option under Settings › Media › Lazy Loader options.
- Possibility to use the
disable-lazyload
class to disable the lazy loader for an element and its children.
Changed
- Updated lazysizes to 4.1.5.
- Added note about limited browser support to loading spinner option.
- Updated placeholder source to a more stable variation (thanks diegocanal for the hint).
Fixed
- Only use
save_html()
method if markup was modified.
- Keep
srcset
attribute with placeholder source to get valid HTML.
3.4.0 – 05.07.2018
Added
- Support for
picture
element.
Fixed
- Only use
data-sizes
attribute, if value is auto
.
- Removed unnecessary check for
src
attribute in modify_img_markup()
.
3.3.7 – 12.06.2018
Fixed
3.3.6 – 11.06.2018
Changed
- Set a transparent data URI as img
src
instead of removing it to avoid page jumps that can happen during image loading (at least in Chrome).
- Updated lazysizes and plugins to 4.0.4.
Fixed
- Fix encoding issues with strings inside
script
elements.
3.3.5 – 14.04.2018
Fixed
- Not working with PHP 5.3.
3.3.4 – 05.04.2018
Fixed
- Use correct pattern for lazy loading of
video
and audio
elements.
- Removed unnecessary
else
and a chunk of duplicate code (thanks mackzwellz).
- Issue with encoding of cyrillic characters.
Changed
- Updated lazysizes.js and the bundled plugins to 4.0.2.
- Run
post_thumbnail_html
filter later (priority 500, like for the the_content
filter call, instead of 10), to fix a problem that appears when used with Responsify WP (thanks jgadbois).
- Moved the
add_noscript_element()
method call to the beginning of the modify_*_markup
methods. With that, there is no need to remove the lazyload
class in the add_noscript_element()
method, because it was not added yet.
- Removed unnecessary
$new_iframe->setAttribute( 'src', $src )
call from the add_noscript_element()
.
- Removed unnecessary
$dom->saveHTMLExact()
calls from the modify_*_markup
methods.
- Use own
FlorianBrinkmann\LazyLoadResponsiveImages\Helpers()->save_html()
method for saving the HTML.
3.3.3 – 13.03.2018
Fixed
- Fix broken code blocks in readme file.
- Set
.lazyload
to display: block
to make the aspectratio option work correctly again.
3.3.2 – 09.03.2018
Fixed
- Removed try to get width and height from images without
width
and height
attr with getimagesize
because it may cause a PHP warning.
3.3.1 – 09.03.2018
Fixed
- Added inline doc for
FlorianBrinkmann\LazyLoadResponsiveImages\Settings()->add_color_picker()
.
- Only load color picker styles and script if on media settings page.
3.3.0 – 09.03.2018
(there was also a new feature added in 3.2.9, but I forgot to increase the minor version number there…)
Added
lazy_load_responsive_images_inline_styles
filter for modifying the inline CSS (for modification, you also need to add the opening and closing style
tags). If you use the spinner option and the filter, you need to add the spinner styles, because they are part of the filtered CSS (Gist with the spinner styles used by default).
- Option to display a loading spinner and define its color.
Changed
- Use style inside
noscript
element to hide .lazyload
images if no JS instead of adding a js
class via JS to the html
element.
- Using
DOMXpath()->query()
to fetch the element nodes.
- Looping the nodes once inside
FlorianBrinkmann\LazyLoadResponsiveImages\Plugin()->filter_markup()
and no longer one time in each of the three element-specific methods.
Fixed
- Do not modify elements inside noscript elements.
- Doc fixes.
3.2.10 – 06.03.2018
Fixed
- Small error in the readme.
3.2.9 – 06.03.2018
Added
- Option to load the lazysizes aspectratio plugin. This plugin calculates the space that the images need before they are loaded. With that enabled, the lazy loading should also work for masonry grids without further markup modifications. Thanks to W.org user zitrusblau for the hint with the plugin.
3.2.8 – 27.02.2018
Fixed
- Correctly set
.lazyload
images to display: none
if JS is disabled.
3.2.7 – 22.02.2018
Added
- Animated the opacity change when the images are loaded.
Fixed
- Duplicated images if, for example, the
the_content
filter is run multiple times.
- Small doc fix.
3.2.6 – 30.11.2017
Changed
- Automatically load unveilhooks extension if audio or video option is enabled, regardless of the option to load the unveilhooks plugin is enabled or not.
- Updated Tested up to version to 4.9.1.
3.2.5 – 27.11.2017
Fixed
- Wrong path to plugin options in the readme.txt.
3.2.4 – 25.11.2017
Fixed
- Fatal error due case mismatch in referencing the SmartDOMDocument class – sorry for that!
3.2.3 – 25.11.2017
Fixed
- Line break issues with the readme for W.org.
3.2.2 – 25.11.2017
Fixed
- Problem with duplicated images in HTML widget.
3.2.1 – 25.11.2017
Fixed
- Load minified version of lazysizes unveilhooks plugin.
3.2.0 – 25.11.2017
Added
- Option to automatically lazy load iFrames.
- Option to automatically lazy load videos.
- Option to automatically lazy load audio.
- Option to additionally load the unveilhooks plugin of lazysizes. This enables lazy loading of audio, video, scripts, and more.
- Support for images inside the text and HTML widget. Does not work for galleries in the widgets.
- Support for Gravatars.
- Autoloading of classes with Composer.
Changed
- Changed plugin name to »Lazy Loader«.
- Moved settings to the media settings page and removed the customizer section.
- PHP comment style for inline comments.
- Renamed the class files in
src
.
Fixed
3.1.13 – 08.11.2017
Changed
- Updated lazysizes to 4.0.1.
- Updated »Tested up to« version to 4.9 in readme.
3.1.12 – 22.09.2017
Fixed
- Added back the support for
data-no-lazyload
attr to disable lazy loading for specific images (was removed in 3.1.0 without keeping backwards compatibility in mind, sorry).
3.1.11 – 19.09.2017
Changed
- Added details to the readme, what images are lazy loaded.
Fixed
- Now also adds a
noscript
element for gallery images.
Removed
- No lazy loading for images that are added via
wp_get_attachment_image()
, because for those images cannot be added a noscript
fallback.
3.1.10 – 17.09.2017
Fixed
- is_admin_request() check does not work for subdirectory installs.
3.1.9 – 25.08.2017
Fixed
- Product image appears twice in WooCommerce cart.
3.1.8 – 10.08.2017
Fixed
- Bump »Requires at least« to 4.5 because using wp_add_inline_script() since a few versions.
3.1.7 – 10.08.2017
Fixed
- Use saveHTMLExact() method from SmartDomDocument to prevent doctype, html and body element to be added to the content.
3.1.6 – 07.08.2017
Fixed
- Disable lazy loading for AMP pages which are generated by the »AMP« plugin by Automattic.
3.1.5 – 20.07.2017
Fixed
- Further issues with PHP 5.3.
- Issue with lazy loaded post thumbnail in the backend.
3.1.4 – 14.07.2017
Fixed
- Replaced [] array syntax with traditional one, so it works with PHP 5.3 again.
3.1.3 – 07.07.2017
Fixed
- Wrong check for js class, which causes hidden images if nothing else added a js class…
3.1.2
Fixed
- Capital P for one »WordPress« in readme and one in plugin description.
3.1.1
Changed
- Added option to disable lazy loading for specific classes to readme.
Fixed
3.1.0
Added
- Customizer option to specify image class names to disable lazy loading for those.
Changed
- Using semver.
- Make it work with AJAX requests (thanks to zitrusblau).
- Using classes and namespaces.
- Using SmartDomDocument class.
- Updated plugin URL.
- Doc improvements.
3.0
- Updated lazysizes to 3.0.0 (Thanks FlorianBrinkmann)
- Plugin version reflects version of lazysizes.
1.0.9
- Allow opting out of lazy load with "data-no-lazyload" attribute (Thanx wheresrhys)
1.0.8
- Bugfix for missing images if javascript is disabled.
1.0.7
- Added a check to prevent the plugin being applied multiple times on the same image. (Thanx to saxonycreative)
1.0.6
- added missing src attribute. Older browsers like the PS4 browser now work again.
1.0.5
- now prevents lazy loading in atom feeds and the WordPress backend.
1.0.4
- Changed description to reflect the compatibility with WordPress 4.4 core responsive images.
- Removed skipping of the first image in the post.
- Adds css class "js" to body tag for better compatibility.
1.0.3
- fixed path to js and css.
1.0.2
- typo in WordPress usernames.