Title: Grayscale Images
Author: Jesús Amieiro
Published: <strong>Siilto 30, 2015</strong>
Last modified: Yarkomaa 29, 2023

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Grayscale Images

 By [Jesús Amieiro](https://profiles.wordpress.org/amieiro/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/grayscale-images.2.0.0.zip)

[Live Preview](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/grayscale-images/?preview=1)

 * [Details](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/grayscale-images/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/grayscale-images/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/grayscale-images/#installation)
 * [Development](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/grayscale-images/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grayscale-images/)

## Description

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

It supports these browsers:

 * [Google Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/).
 * [Mozilla Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/).
 * [Apple Safari](https://www.apple.com/safari/).
 * [Microsoft Edge](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge).
 * [Opera](https://www.opera.com/).

The banner and the icon uses [this image](https://pixabay.com/en/beach-shore-coast-ocean-evening-768421/),
released under the [CC0 Public Domain license](https://pixabay.com/en/service/terms/#usage).

## Installation

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

## FAQ

Not available.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works as a charm](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-as-a-charm-24/)󠁿

 [Fernando Tellado](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fernandot/) Yarkomaa 31, 2023

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

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/435c3d14d1f5ad8e86097cf4a509a60f689c8403cbd993e5b51c925aaf1b4d42?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-4172/)󠁿

 [victormontesdeo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/victormontesdeo/) Siilto 3, 2016

great!

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grayscale-images/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Grayscale Images” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Jesús Amieiro ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/amieiro/)

[Translate “Grayscale Images” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/grayscale-images)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/grayscale-images/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/grayscale-images/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/grayscale-images/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/grayscale-images/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * First release.

#### 2.0.0

 * 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

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0.0**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **70+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.3.8**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/grayscale-images/)
 * Tags
 * [black](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/black/)[gray](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gray/)
   [grayscale](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/grayscale/)[grey](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/grey/)
   [white](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/white/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/grayscale-images/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grayscale-images/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grayscale-images/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grayscale-images/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grayscale-images/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grayscale-images/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grayscale-images/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Jesús Amieiro ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/amieiro/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/grayscale-images/)