LassoCut for WordPress: remove image backgrounds

What happens to WordPress plugins that call remove.bg on 1 December

WordPress plugins that call the remove.bg API stop returning results on 1 December 2026, when that API stops accepting requests (announced in early September 2026). This includes wc-remove-bg, a WooCommerce plugin with about 200 active installs that has had no maintainer update since 2020, and any custom theme or plugin code that posts to api.remove.bg directly. See the shutdown guide for every date and source.

Switch to LassoCut in 3 steps

1. Deactivate the old plugin (wc-remove-bg or another) and install LassoCut from WordPress.org (link above).
2. Open Settings → LassoCut and click Connect with LassoCut once.
3. Use Remove background in the Media Library or WooCommerce, the same way you did before.

Install

1. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New, search for LassoCut, click Install Now then Activate. (Or Upload Plugin with the .zip file.)
2. Open Settings → LassoCut and click Connect with LassoCut: sign in with GitHub or Google in the new tab and approve, and the key is filled in for you (or paste one from your account). The page shows your credits.
3. Choose the size (full resolution, preview, or the largest your credits allow) and the background: empty for a transparent PNG, or a colour such as ffffff for a JPG on white.

Use

• Media Library (list view): click Remove background under an image, or select several and use the bulk action (10 at a time).
• WooCommerce → Products: select products and use Remove background from main image. The cut-out becomes the product image.

Marketplace presets (plugin 1.2.0): in Settings → LassoCut, the Ready for and Shadow settings frame each result to a marketplace's image rules, with an optional cast shadow. They apply to the Media Library and WooCommerce bulk actions; the default is None, so nothing changes until you pick one. About marketplace presets.

The result is a new image named …-removebg.png next to the original, with the same alt text. Nothing is overwritten.

To process new products automatically instead of clicking, use the n8n workflow for WooCommerce: it gives each new product a white-background main image and skips products already done.

Coming from wc-remove-bg or another remove.bg plugin

Deactivate it, install LassoCut and add your LassoCut key. Images already processed stay in your library. remove.bg credits cannot be used on LassoCut. wc-remove-bg users: the plugin has had no maintainer update since 2020 and has no shutdown notice of its own, so nothing will warn you when it stops on 1 December 2026.

If your theme or custom code calls the remove.bg API directly, change the base URL to https://api.lassocut.com/v1.0/ and use your LassoCut key: see the API migration guide.

Error messages

LassoCut shows the API's own message as an admin notice at the top of the page. What each one means and what to do:

Bulk actions stop at the first image whose error means every later one will fail the same way (no key, no credits, an invalid key), so you don't spend credits on a run that can't succeed.

Questions