Best placeholder plugins for WordPress
The most popular placeholder plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Gravity Forms Placeholder Add-On leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders (600+) and Lorem Ipsum Block (400+). All 29 plugins tagged “placeholder” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 placeholder plugins
- 1.
Gravity Forms Placeholder Add-OnThe most installed placeholder plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 12 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 2.
Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders600+ active installs. Rated 3.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 3.
Lorem Ipsum Block400+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.0.
- 4.
Dummy Images100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 5.
Search Placeholder Avada100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 6.
Lorem Ipsum Blocks100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 7.
Lorem Ipsum100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
GR Lorem Ipsum Generator50+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 9.
PlaceHodor40+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 10.
Senzastile Featured Image Fallbacks40+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
All 29 plugins tagged “placeholder”
Gravity Forms Placeholder Add-On
Down in the last 7 days:26#5,741by phpmypython9 years ago
This plugin adds Placeholder support to gravity forms
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders
Down in the last 7 days:3#8,261by Josh Davis12 years ago
Automatically converts all Gravity Form labels into HTML5 placeholders. Includes Modernizr to add placeholder support to Internet Explorer.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.0(5)
- Downloads
- 9/day
Lorem Ipsum Block
Down in the last 7 days:8#9,220by eedee6 years ago
Rapidly prototype your posts and pages with lorem ipsum paragraphs and headings.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Dummy Images
Down in the last 7 days:11#13,592by Mariyan Belchev3 years ago
This plugin is a generator of customizable dummy images.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Search Placeholder Avada
Down in the last 7 days:70#13,611by mark l chaves3 years ago
Customise the search box placeholder text for the Avada theme.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lorem Ipsum Blocks
Down in the last 7 days:57#15,552by LOOS4 years ago
A plugin that makes it easy to use blocks with dummy text.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lorem Ipsum
Up in the last 7 days:129#15,787by Plugin Pizza2 months ago
Quickly insert lorem ipsum dummy text or placeholder images via autocompletion in the block editor.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day
GR Lorem Ipsum Generator
Up in the last 7 days:131#20,221by jwiere038 years ago
Generates one or more randomly selected paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum text from shortcode.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
PlaceHodor
Up in the last 7 days:28#21,481by xuxu.fr22 days ago
Substitute/replace missing images by a default image. The plugin will (try to) display/generate the good size (width and height) of the missing image.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Senzastile Featured Image Fallbacks
Down in the last 7 days:103#21,904by senzastile4 months ago
Never show a blank thumbnail again. Automatically display a default featured image, fallback image, or placeholder image for any post, page, or custom …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Contact Form 7 Quiz Placeholders
Down in the last 7 days:173#22,920by Josh Davis14 years ago
Automatically converts Contact Form 7 quiz labels into HTML5 placeholders (like the "Watermark" feature in CF7, which is missing for quizzes …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 1.0(2)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Placeholder it
#35,193by johanvandemerwe10 years ago
Add placeholders easily to widget areas during site development, with many options
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Advanced Login Form
Down in the last 7 days:4,911#42,672by Boot Div4 years ago
Advanced Login Form is a more customize wordpress plugin that use for wordpress login page. It also style register and forget password page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Boot Slider
Up in the last 7 days:1,602#43,904by Boot Div4 years ago
Bootstrap 5 Slider with customize and awosome ui/ux. Wordpress Full functional. Use Shortcode [boot_slider id=" "] or [boot_slider id=" …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Placeholder Text
Down in the last 7 days:3,311#46,942by neilgee10 years ago
This plugin adds support for placeholder text in browsers that don't support this HTML5 feature.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Japanese Lorem Block
Down in the last 7 days:3,585#55,330by Benachi4 years ago
Japanese Lorem Block generates placeholder text in Japanese. It quickly fills the empty area to create presentable text block.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
wi_Posts
Up in the last 7 days:7,264#55,577by wi_VOID5 years ago
If you create for example a Wiki or multiple Pages with the same Content, you can use this Plugin to generate your Content!
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sample Images
Up in the last 7 days:4,187#58,376by Leandro Berg6 years ago
Runtime media path replacement, used for generate sample images on front side, without any db changes
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wipsum
Down in the last 7 days:6,829#62,180by CasualWP3 years ago
Generate dummy text quickly with only one click.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
TempMedia
#63,434by jamesdawson7 years ago
Add placeholder images to wordpress using the tempmedia api
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PB Text and Images Placeholder Fallback Suite
Up in the last 7 days:4,006#67,981by pluginsbuy3 months ago
Fallback images, dynamic text placeholders, initials avatars, brand colours, and image-health tools for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sample Content for ACF
Up in the last 7 days:81#70,188by phillmill2 years ago
Gives you the power to instantly populate fields with lorem ipsum text, placeholder images and more.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PlaceGen
Down in the last 7 days:449#70,674by scriptsdev5 months ago
Generate image placeholders from ZIP uploads while preserving folder structure, filenames, and image dimensions.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Placeholders
Down in the last 7 days:15,450#71,764by Jake Spurlock11 months ago
Gutenberg blocks for common ad placeholder sizes - perfect for wireframing and layout design.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lorim Ipsm
Down in the last 7 days:14,917#73,446by codethrower6 years ago
This is a simple plugin for generating place holder text and images.
- 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