a3 Lazy Load for WordPress

Video embeded by URL in Post and Pages (All Content areas)

Video in Widget types, Text Widget and HTML Widgets.

iFRAME LAZY LOAD a3 Lazy Load has built in support for content that is added by iframe from any source in content and widgets and will lazy load any iframe that WordPress core does not load. Examples

WordPress embedded media

Facebook Like boxes with profiles, Like buttons, Recommend

Google+ Profile

Google Maps

POST EMBED

Fully compatible with WordPress embed post on any site feature introduced in version WP version 4.4

Makes embed post load much faster

WORDPRESS AMP

Built in auto support for WordPress AMP plugin

Built in support for Better AMP plugin

There are no setting options for exclude /amp – Lazy Load is just never applied to the /amp endpoint

When the url is loaded in browser without /amp Lazy Load is applied

JETPACK SITE ACCELERATOR (Photon) This is an option that you turn on as the Jetpack Accelerator (Photon CDN images) has its own lazy load feature that needs to be OFF first to be able use a3 Lazy Load as your lazy Load engine. Some users prefer to use a3 Lazy Load as it applies Lazy Load to videos and iframes as well as images.

WebP IMAGES a3 Lazy Load has built in automatic support for WebP images. There are no settings for this as a3 Lazy Load will automatically detect if an image has a WebP version and lazy load the WebP version. If no WebP image exists, the appropriate jpg or png version will be lazy loaded. Also fully support browser detection of WebP.

LAZY LOAD EFFECTS a3 Lazy Load gives you the option to lazy load images with a FADE IN or SPINNER effect

FADEIN see demo

SPINNER see demo

Option to create a custom Lazy Load pre-load background colour

PERFORMANCE TWEAKS a3 Lazy Load gives you the option to load its script from your sites HEAD or from the FOOT.

Note that your theme must have the wp_footer() function if you select FOOTER load.

Note the plugin CSS is always loaded from the HEAD.

EXCLUDE IMAGES & VIDEO a3 Lazy Load allows you to easily exclude any image or video by class name from having the Lazy Load effect applied. See FAQ’s

JAVASCIPT DISABLED FALLBACK a3 Lazy Load has built in Noscript fallback if user has JavaScript turned off in their browser. Developers who use underscore.js in their applications can use the Noscript parameter to exclude their plugins content from Lazy Load.

THEME & PLUGIN COMPATIBILITY a3 Lazy Load works with any WordPress theme that follows the WordPress Theme Codex. However, many Theme & Plugin developers will use a custom written function to add objects, example the theme has a home page with layout created by a custom function they have written. a3 Lazy Load cannot know what these functions are and so cannot apply to the objects loaded by that custom function.

If your images or objects not being Lazy Loaded in a certain section of your site, but are Lazy Loaded everywhere else you will know this is the cause. Please if this happens raise a support ticket with the developer, explaining that they just need to add a simple tag to their custom functions so that a3 Lazy Load apply to their custom function and be fully compatible. Here is a list of a3 lazy Load filter tags to include in your ticket to make it easy for the developer.

Don’t forget when a developer does add full compatibility with a3 Lazy Load please let us know via a support ticket on this forum and we will add them to the list below.

These are just some of the more popular plugins that are either tested 100% compatible with a3 Lazy Load or tags has been added for 100% compatibility.

Plugin – Advanced Custom Fields (Free and Premium)

Plugin – WooCommerce

Plugin – JetPack

Plugin – Elementor (Free and Pro)

Plugin – WP Offload

Plugin – WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, Autoptimize

Plugin – Youtube Embed

Plugin – WordPress AMP

Plugin – WPTouch. Note – Set to not apply on Mobiles if WPTouch is installed

Plugin – MobilePress – Set to not apply on Mobiles if MobilePress is installed

WebP Plugins – Smush, EWWW Image Optimizer, Imagify, WebP Express

Plugins – Will not conflict with any plugin that has lazy load built in

CDN’s – JetPack Accelerator, Cloudfront, Cloudflare and all other known CDN architecture.

MORE FEATURES

Full support of jQueryMobile framework

WordPress Multi site ready.

Backend support for RTL display.

Translation ready

JOIN THE a3 LAZY LOAD COMMUNITY When you download a3 lazy Load, you join our community. Regardless of if you are a WordPress newbie or experienced developer if you are interested in contributing to a3 Lazy Load development head over to the a3 Lazy Load GitHub Repository to find out how you can contribute.

Want to add a new language to a3 Lazy Load? Great! You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org

USAGE

Install and activate the plugin

Open WordPress Settings menu

Click on a3 Lazy Load menu

Turn ON Lazy Load and all preferred settings

Save Changes and enjoy the improved performance Lazy Load will give your site