Add loading="lazy" to the image tags

[superpoincare]

Problem

Images in Wordpress 5.5 will be lazy-loaded by default. Needs the image loaded by this plugin to be lazy-loaded.

Description

Wordpress 5.5 will load images as lazy by default. However, it doesn't cover all images. Only images in posts and some widgets. So this plugin would need to add

loading="lazy"

to the img tags by default for consistency, with maybe a filter or a new setting to not load it lazy.

[superpoincare]

Should add that Wordpress had the filter wp_lazy_loading_enabled, so this plugin needn't add a filter of its own but check check if the Wordpress filter has been added by the site.

[decon-harsh]

Hey, I am new in this community . Can i take this up?

[kgodey]

Go ahead @decon-harsh

[decon-harsh]

I am working on plugins and wordpress for the first time , so as far as I understood I had to add a filter add_filter($img, wp_lazy_loading_enabled, __return_true)
targeting img tags in includes/class-creativecommons-image.php. ?

[superpoincare]

@decon-harsh

That filter is for Wordpress in general, and a site user can disable lazy loading by default by that filter,

This plugin shouldn't enable or disable it using that filter.

However, it will be useful, If there's some way to check if the site has disabled lazy load by default, the image tag by this plugin should also not load lazy. If the filter is true, then lazy load.