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Blur Up!

by Paul Houser · github.com/flops-overflow/blurp-wp

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/flops-overflow/blurp-wp/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/flops-overflow/blurp-wp ↗

Blurp!

This plugin is a fancy image lazy loader. It scans all the content filtered by the_content, and replaces the images with an embedded tiny thumbnail (40px by proportional height). This is injected inline into the page and a blur filter is applied to make it look nicer. As the user scrolls through the page, once the blurry image comes into view, it is replaced by the original image.

Notes

This plugin does quite a lot of file reading and processing, which can increase the TTFB. It is highly recommend that if this plugin is utilized, you use a WordPress cache plugin like Cache Enabler, so that the images are not being reprocessed every time a page is loaded.

Features

WebP

This plugin is WebP aware! The server-side script checks to see if a .webp file exists for the original image, and if the browser is compatible, the front-end script will upgrade the original image to the webp version. This methodology is cache and CDN friendly!