WordPress Accelerate

This straightforward plugin makes WordPress website more performant with the following techniques:

• Lazyload for images and iframes
• Adding defer attribute to script tags

Contribution

Feel free to improve the plugin and open pull request in the Github repository.

Development

You need to have node.js and yarn installed.

1. Clone repository git clone [email protected]:mejta/wp-accelerate.git.
2. Run yarn and yarn start command.
3. To build run yarn build command.

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/wp-accelerate directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
3. Profit!

1.2.9

• Beaver Builder compatibility

1.2.8

• Dependencies upgrade

1.2.7

• Fixed for IE

1.2.5

• Added filter for content wp_accelerate_content

1.2.4

• Added support for lazyloaded background images with style="background-image: url(...)"

1.2.3

• Added support for wp_accelerate_lazyload, wp_accelerate_defer and wp_accelerate_no_defer filters

1.2.0

• Added support for lazyloading of <picture>, <video> and <audio> elements

1.1.0

• Add wp_accelerate_lazyload filter

1.0.2

• Apply lazy-loading only when on front-end and when not doing ajax, etc.

1.0

• Initial release