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SmoothPreview

Zero-delay adaptive dominant color placeholders and 5-directional shimmer skeleton loading effects for WordPress & WooCommerce.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version1.0.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 5.8 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update19 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installationsNewAdoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records SmoothPreview version 1.0.0 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

SmoothPreview brings modern app-style loading placeholders to your WordPress and WooCommerce media galleries.

Instead of displaying blank white boxes or causing sudden vertical jumps while images download, SmoothPreview calculates the photo’s exact dominant RGB color and locks image aspect ratio server-side to guarantee 0 Cumulative Layout Shift (0 CLS).

Key Features

  • 🎨 Adaptive Dominant Color Extraction: Instantly samples photo colors in less than 1 millisecond.
  • ⬛ Classic Light Grey Skeleton Box: Clean minimal loading placeholder mode.
  • ✨ 5 Shimmer Motion Directions: Horizontal (LTR/RTL), Vertical (TTB/BTT), and Diagonal wave flashes.
  • 📐 0 Layout Shift (CLS Prevention): Hard-locks image container aspect ratios.
  • 🛡️ Admin Workflow Bypass: Automatically bypasses preview effects while editing pages in WP Admin.
  • 🌙 Auto Dark Mode: Detects visitor dark mode preferences automatically.
  • ⚡ Ultra Lightweight: Zero external library dependencies, 100% PHP & CSS native.
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • dominant color
  • lazy load
  • skeleton loader
  • placeholder
  • woocommerce
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.8 · PHP 7.4
Update activity19 Aug 20262mo ago

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