Disable Lazy Load
by Sachyya · WordPress.org page
Disable Lazy Load has 400+ active installs on WordPress.org and 7,797 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on December 13, 2022, tested up to WordPress 6.1.12.
Disable Lazy Load at a glance
Is Disable Lazy Load well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Go to Dashboard->Media->Library
- Then click on the image you want to disable lazy load
- At the bottom, check the Disable default lazy-loading feature checkbox
Disable Lazy Load reviews and ratings
6 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Good plugin, would be great if other options available but only one that works
Like many people I expect, I came here after testing my website and receiving the error about lazy loading on the above the fold images. After some fruitless research, the theme developer recommended this plugin. I wish there was a way to disable lazy loading by CSS or some other feature, as I don't wish to disable lazy loading entirely (and while I have a plugin that could also deal with that, I can't get it to work with my theme), as it's not workable to disable it image by image for every page on the website, but so far this is the only plugin I've found that worked and for me it's enough just to remove them from some key pages. I'm also glad I read the comments as I'm sure I would also have missed the 'lazy load' within the settings in the media, although that actually makes more sense in terms of one's regular workflow.
joycekwc -
Works fine
Does what it says it does and is nice and discreet. Looks like it belongs in wordpress and in fact preventing lazy load on single images should be in the core. Brought me from a B to an A on gtmetrix. I have a full width slider that pretty much fills up the above the fold area and the three slide images were lazy loading.
jhnpldng -
Excellent idea to disable specific images from lazy loading
message to the previous 1-star ranking If you have a problem with the plugin, why don't you ask in the support section first, and see how the developer reacts and if he can help you. It is a bad habit to give one star in the rating instead, without paying homage to the developer's effort. (and he still offered you help there) Your bad review had kept me from testing the plugin at first, but after installing it, it met my expectations. I can specifically deactivate images that are located in the upper area of the website via the library...and the idea is excellent to achieve better results in the website speed.
dozentis -
Perfect for Page Speed
This worked PERFECTLY to remove the loading="lazy" on the featured image which causes the Google page speed test to complain. It would be nice if the "settings" were a little clearer instead of in the Media Settings. I actually removed the plugin twice thinking it didn't work before I noticed the documentation mentioned where the settings for it exist.
jjopllin -
Works for me, for all or certain images
Being a passionate minimalist, I recently found and used the plugin "No BS Image Slider" on a client site. But often only the first image would load, not the others. This seemed to be caused by WordPress lazy loading - the images scroll in on a pure CSS animation, and it seems like the WP JS for lazy loading evaluates all but the first slide as not visible - although they soon are. Empty space slides in... I did not want to to kill lazy loading in general, and this was the only plugin I found which offered to suppress it on certain media files. I was a bit hesitant due to the previous bad review, but found no alternative plugin-based solution. So I tried it - and it works fine. My slider pics are now not lazy loaded. The blanket option to completely suppress lazy loading works too, I tried it. Finally, I had a look at the code: Nice modern OO code, nice and lean, no bloat (but does use vendor/composer). Code looked clean to me. Therefore: Recommended!
Tim Reeves -
Create conflicts
Suddenly all elements have an imagen ad background. I have like a thousand images an one of them has been elected to be the background for all divs in the web.
alfredovazquez
Details
Simple plugin to disable lazy loading feature on the site or only on specific images.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- disable-lazy-load
- images
- Lazy Loading
- skip-lazy-loading
More from Sachyya
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Show Page 70+ installs
- Version
- 1.0.4
- Last updated
- Dec 13, 2022
- First published
- Aug 15, 2020
- Requires WordPress
- 6.1
- Tested up to
- 6.1.12
- Requires PHP
- 7.2
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Disable Lazy Load FAQ
What does Disable Lazy Load do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Disable Lazy Load offers Go to Dashboard->Media->Library, Then click on the image you want to disable lazy load and At the bottom, check the Disable default lazy-loading feature checkbox.
How many active installs does Disable Lazy Load have?
WordPress.org reports 400+ active installs for Disable Lazy Load as of September 7, 2026.
Is Disable Lazy Load still maintained?
The last release was on December 13, 2022, more than a year ago. WordPress.org shows a warning on plugins that go this long without an update.
Is Disable Lazy Load free?
Disable Lazy Load is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.