Wordpress LScache Plugin: Response Placeholder Keeps Showing Even When Set to OFF
Last Updated on: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:02 Hello, I want to use LScache Lazy Loading feature. But it forces the responsive placeholder to show even when I havent enabled that feature. This is happening on two of my websites with different themes. Even when I disable all CSS/JSS options, it still shows not unless I deactivate lazy loading altogether. How can I fix it because I dont want that responsive placeholder to show. Regards Check Report number: DPEWVSME This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by essaund. Hi, I dont see any responsive placeholder in your page all images are showing as responsive placeholder will add code like data-placeholder-resp=555x555 into the HTML code Best regards, Hello, Just open any article on the website and see for yourself. Its there. Or where can I send you a screen recording of the same? Its a gray placeholder placed by LSCache and it matches the color under LSCache settings. Once I deactivate Lazy Load on LSCache it disappears. I faced the same issue on my main domain with a different theme as well and I stopped using LSCache on that website because if it. Regards. Hi, thats not responsive place holder, thats normal placeholder go page optm -> media setting -> lazyload image , set it OFF will get rid of that Best regards, Hello, Exactly, you can see it now. Turn what off? Lazy Load Images (As I said earlier, turning off lazy loading removes that placeholder). I want to use Lazy Load but minus that placeholder showing. Also its aggressively compressing images and they appear super low quality. Regards then you can try to set the placeholder to white or transparent How do I set it to transparent? But this is a bug that should be fixed. Dont you think so? I remember back in 2019 LSCache Lazy Load feature didnt have a random placeholder hanging around when activated. I noticed it started showing from one of the updates in 2020. I know I can use a different solution for lazy loading. But I dont want to stuff many plugins when one can handle the same job. Im sorry , what bug ? it is working as it is designed to , the default value is that grey-black placeholder you saw , and in tooltip , it has the value to be used as transparent if you read the tooltip below the Basic Image Placeholder , you will see Specify a base64 image to be used as a simple placeholder while images finish loading. This can be predefined in wp-config.php as well using constant LITESPEED_PLACEHOLDER, with this setting taking priority. By default a gray image placeholder data:image/gif base64,R0lGODdhAQABAPAAAMPDwwAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs= will be used. For example, data:image/gif base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 can be used for a transparent placeholder. Hello, Thanks for highlighting that. Now I get it. I can see its working. Is there a way I can change the Responsive Placeholder to transparent? Regards Hello, Sorry about that. Having a mixed up of accounts. The placeholder now is set to transparent. Is it possible to set the Responsive Placeholder to transparent too? sadly no , but you can make it white , it should be close enough effect as transparent in color selector , set to 255 255 255 Hello bro, Thanks a lot for helping out. Its now working perfect. Regards Hello, Is it possible to have a transparent responsive placeholder? Nowadays, themes have a switch that allows visitors to toggle between dark mode and light mode. Having the responsive placeholder in one colour messes either mode. Or you can include an additional option for enabling responsive placeholder for themes with dark mode.
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