Best placeholders plugins for WordPress
The most popular placeholders plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Gravity Forms leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders (600+) and Media Placeholders (60+). All 5 plugins tagged “placeholders” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 placeholders plugins
- 1.
Gravity FormsThe most installed placeholders plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 24 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 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.
Media Placeholders60+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.
- 4.
Placeholder Manager20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 months ago.
- 5.
Super Interactive Image PlaceholdersFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
All 5 plugins tagged “placeholders”
Gravity Forms
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,502by neojp9 years ago
Adds HTML5 placeholder support to Gravity Forms' fields with a Javascript fallback. Javascript & jQuery are required.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(24)
- Downloads
- 14/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
Media Placeholders
Down in the last 7 days:183#19,728by Weston Ruter11 years ago
Redirect requests to non-existent uploaded images to a placeholder service like placehold.it or placekitten.com. For use during development.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Placeholder Manager
Up in the last 7 days:2,346#27,641by TrexHost3 months ago
Manage placeholders in WordPress content, titles, widgets, and blocks.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Super Interactive Image Placeholders
#64,323by Super Interactive4 years ago
Display placeholder Lorem Picsum images to avoid chains of 404 requests caused by an incomplete uploads directory (while developing)
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day