Best dominant color plugins for WordPress
The most popular dominant color plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Image Placeholders leads with 60K+ active installs, ahead of WebKew Image Dominant Color Generator (10+) and Zu Media (fewer than 10). All 4 plugins tagged “dominant color” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 dominant color plugins
- 1.Image Placeholders
The most installed dominant color plugin, with 60K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
WebKew Image Dominant Color Generator10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 4 days ago.
- 3.Zu Media
Fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.0.
- 4.
SmoothPreviewFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
All 4 plugins tagged “dominant color”
Image Placeholders
Up in the last 7 days:1#665by WordPress Performance Team2 months ago
Displays placeholders based on an image's dominant color while the image is loading.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 548/day

WebKew Image Dominant Color Generator
Down in the last 7 days:918#34,526by Peshmerge Morad4 days ago
A WordPress plugin that automatically generates a dominant color & a colors palette (6 colors) for any uploaded image to the WordPress media library.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Zu Media
Down in the last 7 days:9,631#65,692by Dmitry4 years ago
Enhances WordPress Media Library with some features (folders, dominant color, location category and others).
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SmoothPreview
Down in the last 7 days:3,212#74,322by sarfaraz232 months ago
Zero-delay adaptive dominant color placeholders and 5-directional shimmer skeleton loading effects for WordPress & WooCommerce.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day