Lazyload, Preload, and More!

A drop dead simple and lightweight image, iframe, and video optimization plugin to satisfy Google PageSpeed Insights, Lighthouse, and overall user experience.

This tiny little plugin (around 14kb zipped) will automatically

• lazyload your below the fold images/iframes/videos,

• preload your featured images (should also works well with WooCommerce product featured image),

• add loading=”eager” to your featured image and all images that have no-lazy or skip-lazy class.

• add missing image dimension to images that doesn’t have width and height attribute

Features

• Lazy Load:

• Images, iframes, and videos.

• Inline background images.

• CSS background image (simply put lazyload class to the background image container)

• Preload Featured Images

Automatically preloading featured image from common page/post (homepage, pages except homepage, single post, and WooCommerce single product pages)

• Add loading=”eager” attribute to to your featured image and all images that have no-lazy or skip-lazy class.

• Add missing image dimension to images that doesn’t have width and height attribute [since 1.0.3]

Should works well with all page builders and theme builders. This plugin also able to lazy loading WooCommerce images and preloading WooCommerce product featured images.

Disclaimer

• Lazy load feature are using Lazysizes library (around 3kb, gzipped and minified).

• This plugin doesn’t add anything to your database since there’s no settings and options. Everything will automatically activated after you activate the plugin.

• You can change some default settings using filter.

• This plugin is the simplified version of Optimize More! – Images, if you don’t want to use filters and need to control the settings with UI, you can try that plugin instead of this one.

About Lazysizes

Lazysizes is highly performant lazy load library, written by Alexander Farkas in pure JS with no dependencies.

Taken from lazysize’s github description:

High performance and SEO friendly lazy loader for images (responsive and normal), iframes and more, that detects any visibility changes triggered through user interaction, CSS or JavaScript without configuration.

Filters

Example filter to add extra lazyload exclude list:

add_filter( 'lpam_extra_exclude_list', function($lpam_extra_exclude_list) { return array( 'my-logo', 'my-hero-img', 'exclude-lazy' ); } );

Example filter to change lazysizes config (Read the docs ):

lazySizesConfig = { expand: 500, threshold: 500 };' } );

Example filter to change the image sizes for preload featured image:

add_filter( 'lpam_preload_featured_images_image_size', function($image_size, $post) { if ( is_singular( 'post' ) ) { return 'large'; } elseif ( is_singular( 'product' ) ) { return 'full'; } else { return $image_size; } }, 10, 2 );

2 ] Example to disable the preload featured image feature in certain page-type:

add_filter('disable_featured_image_preload', function ($disable) { if ( is_singular( 'post' ) ) { return true; } });

3 ] Example to disable adding image dimension in certain page-type:

add_filter('disable_img_dimension', function ($disable) { if ( is_singular( 'post' ) ) { return true; } });

3 ] Example to disable this plugin completely in certain page using url:

add_filter('lazy_load_excluded_pages', function ($excludedPages) { $excludedPages[] = '/page-1'; $excludedPages[] = '/page-2'; return $excludedPages; });

3 ] Example to disable this plugin completely in certain page using page ID:

add_filter('lazy_load_excluded_page_ids', function ($excludedPageIDs) { $excludedPageIDs[] = 3678; // Exclude page with ID 1 $excludedPageIDs[] = 3615; // Exclude page with ID 2 return $excludedPageIDs; });

4 ] To disable the tag:

add_filter('disable_noscript', '__return_true');

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