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mabujo/featured-image-sharpen-up
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1.0.1(10y ago)017GPL-2.0+PHP

Since Dec 17Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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Featured Image Sharpen Up
=========================

[](#featured-image-sharpen-up)

Featured Image Sharpen Up makes a tiny version of your featured post image and places it in the head of the page. As you scroll down the page, some JavaScript lazy loads the featured images in the background and replaces the tiny images as the full images are loaded.

You may have seen a similar effect used for images on medium.com.

Created on WordPress 4.4, but should work on earlier versions. Tested working on all Twenty Sixteen, Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Twelve and Twenty Eleven themes. Should work on other themes, but may need CSS adjustments, depending on theme handling of featured images.

Uses jQuery.Lazy(); () and Hugh Lashbrooke's plugin template ()

Plugin page : [Featured Image Sharpen Up plugin @ mabujo](https://mabujo.com/blog/featured-image-sharpen-up-wordpress-plugin/)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Installing "Featured Image Sharpen Up" can be done either by searching for "Featured Image Sharpen Up" via the "Plugins > Add New" screen in your WordPress dashboard, or by using the following steps:

1. Download the plugin via WordPress.org
2. Upload the ZIP file through the 'Plugins > Add New > Upload' screen in your WordPress dashboard
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

You can also download from GitHub :  or composer.

###  Health Score

27

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LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~20 days

Total

2

Last Release

3828d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f68e2df6c0ad5d50574b1d368eaf5e8948f8d8dccb4bbe4c7194bdd92f7de137?d=identicon)[mabujo](/maintainers/mabujo)

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Top Contributors

[![mabujo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/898266?v=4)](https://github.com/mabujo "mabujo (14 commits)")

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Tags

wordpresssvgimagespage-speedlazy load

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