What is Placeholders?

Quickly adding and visualizing standard ad placements during WordPress site design and prototyping. It is catalogued under App builders & workflow automation on PulseGate.

Who is Placeholders for?

Placeholders is a B2B product built for wordPress site designers and developers.

Is Placeholders free?

Yes — Placeholders is free to use.

Is Placeholders still active?

Unverified. Placeholders has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.

What projects are similar to Placeholders?

Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Image Placeholders, Placeholder Manager, and Premium Blocks.

Who develops Placeholders?

Placeholders is developed by Jake Spurlock.

When did Placeholders launch?

Placeholders first shipped in 2025.

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Placeholders

Name: Placeholders
Author: Jake Spurlock

wordpress.orgApp builders & workflow automation

Placeholders is a free WordPress plugin that adds 14 customizable Gutenberg blocks for standard advertising sizes. It helps designers and developers wireframe, prototype, and reserve space for future ad placements in WordPress sites, supporting responsive layouts and minimal styling.

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Overview

5 features

Placeholders sits in PulseGate's App builders & workflow automation category. Quickly adding and visualizing standard ad placements during WordPress site design and prototyping. Placeholders is a B2B product aimed at wordPress site designers and developers. Placeholders is free to use. It runs on the web.

It is developed by Jake Spurlock, and it first shipped in 2025. Among its 5 catalogued features are customizable blocks, ad size presets, and wireframing support. The interface is available in English and Latvian.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.

Customizable blocks
Ad size presets
Wireframing support
Responsive design
Minimal styling

Built with & integrations

Runs on

BrowserCloud-managed

Trust & compliance

Verified signals

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Indexing history

What PulseGate has recorded for this listing

Indexed29 Jun · 15:02 UTC
Listing verified against its public source
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Frequently asked questions about Placeholders

What is Placeholders?: Quickly adding and visualizing standard ad placements during WordPress site design and prototyping. It is catalogued under App builders & workflow automation on PulseGate.
Who is Placeholders for?: Placeholders is a B2B product built for wordPress site designers and developers.
Is Placeholders free?: Yes — Placeholders is free to use.
What platforms does Placeholders run on?: Placeholders runs on the web.
Is Placeholders still active?: Unverified. Placeholders has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
What projects are similar to Placeholders?: Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Image Placeholders, Placeholder Manager, and Premium Blocks.Image Placeholders Placeholder Manager Premium Blocks
Who develops Placeholders?: Placeholders is developed by Jake Spurlock.
When did Placeholders launch?: Placeholders first shipped in 2025.

At a glance

Pricing: Free
Platforms: Web
Languages: English, Latvian
Built for: WordPress site designers and developers
Model: B2B
Solves: Quickly adding and visualizing standard ad placements during WordPress site design and prototyping.

Registered as

WordPress.org: placeholders

Developer

Jake Spurlock

Index record

Indexed: 29 Jun 2026
Lifecycle: Alive
Last seen: 29 Jun 2026

Identity audit (12)

Slug: placeholders-wordpress-org
Lifecycle last checked: 8 Aug 2026
Verification state: Indexed for public listing
Listing state: Listed: yes
Index status: Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot: 29 Jun 2026
Timeline basis: Indexed-at chronology. This listing's first-seen date was written by the catalog backfill, not observed here, so it is not treated as a sighting.
Name from: Derived from the project's own page and URL.
Category from: Recorded source: taxonomy-pass-b.
Summary from: Written by a language model from public pages.
Languages from: Detected by a language model, checked against the page's own declaration.
Canonical URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/placeholders

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