Title: Skip “Lazy load”
Last modified: July 5, 2022

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# Skip “Lazy load”

 *  [Percal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/percal/)
 * (@percal)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-lazy-load/)
 * I would like to skip lazy load in the featured posts image. Can you help me?
   
   Thank you so much.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fskip-lazy-load%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Theme Author [presscustomizr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikeo/)
 * (@nikeo)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-lazy-load/#post-15798389)
 * How you handle this is going to depend on what all you are using to construct
   your site.
    For Hueman, at the theme level you can do the following: In the customizer
   menu, you can go to advanced options, and then performance and SEO options and
   choose your image loading preferences.
 * If you are using the Nimble Builder Plugin, you can do it under site optimization
   options:
    [https://docs.presscustomizr.com/article/401-how-to-create-a-video-background-with-nimble-builder-wordpress-plugin#:~:text=In%20order%20to%20reduce%20page,global%20settings%20%3E%20page%20speed%20optimizations](https://docs.presscustomizr.com/article/401-how-to-create-a-video-background-with-nimble-builder-wordpress-plugin#:~:text=In%20order%20to%20reduce%20page,global%20settings%20%3E%20page%20speed%20optimizations).
 * And, finally, so that it doesn’t seem like we are just pushing our own plugin,
   there is a plugin out there designed specifically to handle this called Disable
   Lazy Loading. I can’t vouch for that plugin, but reviews seem good enough.
 *  Thread Starter [Percal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/percal/)
 * (@percal)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-lazy-load/#post-15799362)
 * Thank you for the answer.
    We are not using the Builder, and at “Performance 
   and SEO” options we have checked “Load images on scroll”. But this option is 
   for _all_ images, and we are looking for any way to don’t lazy load _only_ the
   image in the featured post (in our case is just one image, because we have only
   one featured post, but is xxlarge size). And we were thinking maybe on any way
   to do that with CSS.
 *  Thread Starter [Percal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/percal/)
 * (@percal)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-lazy-load/#post-15828401)
 * Well, this is a really useful support forum.
    Thank you for so much attention.
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by [Percal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/percal/).
 *  [yallaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yallaman/)
 * (@yallaman)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-lazy-load/#post-15851857)
 * I agree with you, [@percal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/percal/), and,
   in fact, so does WordPress (see below)! Featured images on blog posts (and pages)
   should _not_ be lazy-loaded.
 * Also, on the home page, e.g. [https://demo-hueman.presscustomizr.com](https://demo-hueman.presscustomizr.com),
   which includes a list of blog posts, the first (big) featured image should _not_
   be lazy-loaded. Yet, with Hueman even this is lazy-loaded. The featured image
   of the first post is unfortunately lazy-loaded, and surprisingly has both
 * `no-lazy`
    and `loading="lazy"`
 * attributes attached to it, which seems contradictory and strange to me (but I’m
   not an expert). What do you think, [@nikeo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikeo/)?
 * On [@percal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/percal/)’s main page ([https://eltrapezi.com/](https://eltrapezi.com/)),
   the featured image of the first post is lazy-loaded, as it is on my own site.
   It has the _loading=”lazy”_ attribute, but not the _no-lazy_ attribute that Hueman’s
   demo site has.
 * Anyway, there is a very large number of people asking for ways to fix this issue.
   After extensive googling, it seems part of the problem could be related to WordPress
   core.
 * In [this WordPress core development post](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/29/enhanced-lazy-loading-performance-in-5-9/)
   I found this very interesting paragraph:
 * > So far, fine tuning which images and iframes should be lazy-loaded or not has
   > been possible using the wp_img_tag_add_loading_attr and wp_iframe_tag_add_loading_attr
   > filters, and these are still available as before. However, to improve the performance
   > out-of-the-box without requiring a developer to customize the behavior, **WordPress
   > will now skip the very first “content image or iframe” on the page from being
   > lazy-loaded**. The term “content image or iframe” here denotes any image or
   > iframe that is found within content of any post in the current main query loop**
   > as well any featured image of such a post**. This applies to both “singular”
   > and “archive” content: In a “singular” context the first image or iframe of
   > the (only) post is not lazy-loaded, while in an “archive” context the first
   > image or iframe of the first post in the query is not lazy-loaded.
 * So, featured images should _not_ be lazy-loaded, yet they are… In the comments
   section of the above-mentioned post, there are several experienced developers
   pointing out the fact that lazy-loading does not work properly.
 * The Hueman theme’s original developer, [Alexander Agnarson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alxmedia/),
   even writes:
 * > I also experience issues with disabling lazy loading on homepage. Breaks all
   > my themes that uses Flexslider on home in 5.9.
 * Of course, Hueman also uses Flexslider.
 * (Lazy-loading issues was part of why both my home page and pages/blog posts were
   missing the featured image and therefore messing up my site, as [described here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-black/#post-15665970).)
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by [yallaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yallaman/).
 *  Thread Starter [Percal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/percal/)
 * (@percal)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-lazy-load/#post-15873085)
 * Thank you, [@yallaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yallaman/).
    But, 
   as you can see, no support here, only silence.

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-lazy-load/#post-15873085)
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