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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.

Image Placeholders


does not break the site, but all placeholders are grey. color detection does not work.



I host WP docker latest myself with nginx and imageick + gd + webp + AVIF so yeah i think my setup is not in cause


does nothing


This is such a nice enhancement for any site! 


Works exactly as advertised

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

Peshmerge Morad

A WordPress plugin that automatically generates a colors palette (6 colors) for any uploaded image to the WordPress media 
library. In addition, to the colors palette, it generates a dominant color which can be overridden by color from the generated colors palette. 
All generated colors are hexadecimal values.
This plugin provides a shortcode [webkew_dc field_name=”” override_field=””] which can returns a dominant color of any specific image specified using the shortcode parameters. 
One use-case of this shortcode is the following: You are a web agency, and you want to create webpage for every client’s project you have built. You want to give each page a background color that’s based on the color of the client’s brand/logo or any specific color you specify. 
Instead of assigning the colors manually, this plugin will generate the dominant color automatically for you and the shortcode will provide you with that color. 
The shortcode gives you also some flexibility by using parameters when using the shortcode: 
1. field_name: this could be the name of image custom field or the string “featured” to select the featured image of the post/page/custom post type. The dominant color of the image specified here will be returned as a hexadecimal value. 
2. override_field: ignore the dominant color provided by the previous field and use the name of another custom field in post/page/custom post type. The color specified in this field will be returned as a hexadecimal value.
If the image specified in <code>field_name</code> doesn’t have a dominant color, and the <code>override_field</code> is empty, the shortcode will return the value of the fallback color which can be set in the WordPress admin panel under Settings –> General section.

WebKew Image Dominant Color Generator

A WordPress plugin that automatically generates a dominant color & a colors palette (6 colors) for any uploaded image to the WordPress media library.

Image Placeholders vs WebKew Image Dominant Color Generator