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rarst/holder
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Quick and flexible placeholders, created right in browser.

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Holder image placeholders for WordPress
=======================================

[](#holder-image-placeholders-for-wordpress)

This is WordPress plugin for convenient use of [holder.js](http://imsky.github.com/holder/) library by [Ivan Malopinsky](http://imsky.co/).

Holder generates customizable placeholder images right in browser, using JavaScript. You can use it both in templates (via template tag) and content (via shortcode).

Example usage:

```
holder( array( 'height' => '50', 'width' => '50', 'theme' => 'industrial' ) );
```

```
Image [holder height="50" width="100" text="thumbnail"] in content

```

```
holder_add_theme( 'wordpress', 'd54e21', '464646' );
```

Installation
============

[](#installation)

Plugin is a [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) package and can be installed via:

```
composer create-project rarst/holder --no-dev

```

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

### 2.0

[](#20)

- Composer package and autoload
- class renamed and namespaced
- general cleanup and rewrite

### 1.1

[](#11)

- *(dependency update)* holder.js v1.8
- *(enhancement)* implemented `font` argument for font family of text

### 1.0.2

[](#102)

- *(docs)* added Ivan Malopinsky account to contributors
- *(enhancement)* added default text support for custom themes

### 1.0.1

[](#101)

- *(docs)* fixed wrong function name in examples

### 1.0

[](#10)

- Initial public release.

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4439d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/689ddc4f33541ac4a001d247e560f8805d219a95e7e42a16e0d22b9409f385cb?d=identicon)[Rarst](/maintainers/Rarst)

---

Top Contributors

[![Rarst](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/737584?v=4)](https://github.com/Rarst "Rarst (34 commits)")

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Tags

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