Lazy Load for Videos

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1. ★★★★★ karasunouta

   1mo ago

   While working on a plugin to make YouTube embeds sticky, I hit a performance wall: the more videos on a page, the heavier it got. So I tried Lazy Load for Videos, and it turned the standard block-editor embeds into lazy-loaded ones with zero extra setup. The page got dramatically lighter. What I appreciated most is that videos aren’t materialized on scroll, but on click. It’s common for a page to have 10 embedded videos where visitors actually play only 2 or 3. Scroll-based lazy loading still ends up loading everything eventually, but with click-based loading, only the videos people actually want get loaded. That difference is noticeable. Pairing this with my sticky plugin turned out to be the missing piece. Articles featuring multiple video guides now feel clean and lightweight, carrying no extra weight until a reader actually hits play. Understated, well thought-out, and hard to find a substitute for.

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2. ★★★★★ synthezoid

   2.5y ago

   Well, it’s free, so that’s worth an extra star all by itself, but it doesn’t actually do anything. My site is exactly the same as it was without it. I installed it, set my settings, even changed the play button to “pulsing”, hit the “update posts” button, and load-blocking iframe youtube embeds still display as the same load-blocking iframe youtube embeds they’ve always been. I checked the support forums and there’s a huge notice on top that the plugin is unsupported, so, uh, there goes the extra star it got for being free. A free plugin gets extra stars even if it doesn’t work perfectly, but a totally broken, totally unsupported plugin is 0 stars even if it’s free. I would have donated if it had worked, too. This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by synthezoid.

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3. ★★★★★ Mario62rus

   2.5y ago

   На одном сайте этот плагин заработал как надо, а на другом, где видео вставлены через <iframe> работать не стал. Зато с этой задачей прекрасно справился плагин WP YouTube Lyte.

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4. ★★★★★ joyryde

   3.0y ago

   HI Kevin,We sell 10,000 products and we edit and crate products using the Woocommerce CSV import/export.This plugin has added 5,000+ columns into the CSV file when it’s exported from Woocommerce…so it crashes the server and Google Sheets and Apple Numbers are unable to open the CSV because the plugin created too many columns. How can we stop the plugin from creating so much data in the database? If we uninstall it, will it delete all database data to solve this issue? We don’t see any settings in it that “removes all data upon uninstall” like other plugins…and we don’t know how to stop it from overloading the database other than to remove it…

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5. ★★★★★ consumerista

   3.1y ago

   This plugin improved load times (especially for mobile in my case) on pages that had YouTube videos. It also hasn’t interfered with load times on pages without videos. Jetpack’s and WP Fastest Cache Premium’s lazy load functions INCREASED page loads for some reason (I think they are delaying the loading of featured psot image on one of my themes). Having the option to activate this function for videos only is clutch and is all I needed for my site to perform well. No lunch or promo but a big thank-you to the author

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6. ★★★★★ maxleithner

   3.1y ago

   I have videos with differing aspect ratios (4:3, 2.35:1, 9:16, 2:1, 1.85:1,…). Unfortunately, the plugin always shows the thumbnail in an aspect ratio of 16:9. Is there a way to make the plugin adapt to the aspect ratio of the video? This topic was modified 3 years ago by maxleithner.

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7. ★★★★★ nealumphred

   3.1y ago

   Lazy Load for Videos is easy to understand, easy to use, and it does its job well. Thanks for the fine plugin. This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by nealumphred.

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8. ★★★★★ adam2354

   3.2y ago

   Downloaded the plugin based on a perf article on clarity-online.com. Took my google pagespeed score from a 27 to a 41 for my divi video slider that had 5 youtubes in it. impressive!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.18.11 Improve internationalization Improve security by checking for ABSPATH 2.18.11
2. — Version 2.18.10 Quality of life improvements, ensure WordPress 7.0+ compatibility 2.18.10
3. — Version 2.18.9 Minor tweaks of texts and links on the admin page 2.18.9
4. — Version 2.18.8 Security: Patch potential XSS attack vector 2.18.8
5. — Version 2.18.7 Security: Patch potential XSS attack vector 2.18.7
6. — Version 2.18.4 Improve translations and add Catalan/Esperanto. Thanks to @martin-steghoefer’s PR Resolve warning about the timing of translation loading 2.18.4

2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.4 Lazy Load for Videos <= 2.18.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via data-video-title and href Attributes ↗
   2025-08-26 CVE-2025-7732 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.18.7 Patched in 2.18.8
2. Medium · 4.3 Lazy Load for Videos <= 2.18.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2023-10-12 CVE-2023-45656 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 2.18.2 Patched in 2.18.3

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 124 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Plus 100 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-08 10K+ → 9K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• WP YouTube Lyte 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A
• Embed Plus for YouTube Gallery, Livestream and Lazy Loading with Facades 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Presto Player 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• I iframe 60K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• All-in-One Video Gallery – Video Player & Galleries for YouTube, Vimeo & Self-Hosted Videos 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Simple Like Page – Fast & Privacy-Friendly Page Embeds 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B

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Lazy Load for Videos: 9K+ active installs, 4.4★ (105 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/lazy-load-for-videos