Best decoding plugins for WordPress

The most popular decoding plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. image-auto-decoding-async leads with 10+ active installs. All 1 plugins tagged “decoding” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.

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Top 1 decoding plugins

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image-auto-decoding-async
The most installed decoding plugin, with 10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.

All 1 plugins tagged “decoding”

image-auto-decoding-async
Up in the last 7 days:8,359#38,599
by dabohaze4 years ago
When adding media on the post screen, automatically add decoding = "async" to the img tag
Installs
10+
Rating
–
Downloads
0/day