LazyLoad Background Images Plugin
Helps deferring offscreen background images and improves website speed by reducing HTTP requests .
This plugin will delay the loading of background images in your website and thus helps boosting the website loading time by reducing total number of HTTP requests.
Quick Notes & Links
- Do not lazyload background images which are peresent above the fold because this will increase time to First Contentful Paint(FCP) metric and affect the speed of your website .
- Background images that are added using inline CSS e.g,
<p style=" background-image: url( path/to/background-img.jpg )" > </p>
are lazyloaded by this plugin by default . - No dependencies required for this plugin to work.
- No extra HTTP request
- Add the selectors of the elements that have background images in the plugin settings page or add
lazyload-bg
class to the element . - WordPress Tips and Tricks By Proloy Bhaduri
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Works smoothly with almost every page builders
Exclude certain inline background images from lazy loading using filter hook lazyload_inline_bg_excludes
add_filter(‘lazyload_inline_bg_excludes’,function($exclude_keywords){
$exclude_keywords = [
‘bg-image.jpg’,
‘class-name’,
‘id’,
‘or any unique keyword that the element with background image has’
];
},10,1);
Note: Add the above code to the functions.php
file of your active theme/child theme or using a code snippets plugin.
Installation
This section describes the way you can install the plugin
- You can directly install the plugin from wordpress admin screen of your site Plugins > Add New and search For Lazyload Background Images .
- Alternatively you can download the plugin file from the WordPress.org and upload to your site via Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin
- Go to Settings > Lazy Backgrounds
Changelog
1.0.7
- Enhancement: Filter hook
lazyload_inline_bg_excludes
to exclude certain inline background images from lazy loading - Fix: A deprecated notice while matching selectors
1.0.6
- Fixed some compatibility issues
1.0.5
1.0.4
- Feature : Added support for Beaver , WP Bakery , Avada , Block editor
1.0.3
- Fixed page builders issue
1.0.2
- Added support for different page builders viz. Oxygen , Divi, Bricks and Breakdance
1.0.1
1.0.0