Grayscale Images

Description

This plugin converts all images to grayscale and show the colored image on hover.

It supports these browsers:

The banner and the icon uses this image, released under the CC0 Public Domain license.

Installation

You can either use the automatic plugin installer or your FTP program to upload the “grayscale-images” directory to your wp-content/plugins directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
That’s all folks.

Faq

Not available.

Reviews

By eastsideluemmel on May 28, 2026

I'm using it and it works (with warning for the new wp-update 🙁

Please don't let it die!!!

The plugin does perfectly what it promises. A very nice feature for photography and portfolio websites.

By victormontesdeo on September 3, 2016

great!

Changelog

Test the compatibility with WordPress 7.0.
Prevent direct access to the plugin file.
Use the plugin version instead of the file modification time to version the stylesheet.
Rename the stylesheet handle to “grayscale-images” to avoid collisions with other plugins or themes.

Update the “Tested up” data.
Remove support to old browsers, as main browsers support CSS3 filters:
- https://caniuse.com/css-filters
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter-function/grayscale