WordPress Ideas » Topic: Adaptive images for responsive design

RavanH on "Adaptive images for responsive design"

RavanH — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 21:31:27 +0000

Hi Ron, better create a new topic on the adaptive images support forum.

This is a really old thread and unrelated to your issue.

Ron5 on "Adaptive images for responsive design"

Ron5 — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 21:27:15 +0000

I want to use the adaptive images plugin for a website on IIS. The plugin info talks about manual configuration. What is this about?

Writing a tag for

{ rewrite \.(?:jpe?g|gif|png)$ /wp-content/plugins/adaptive-images/adaptive-images-script.php; }

in web.config?

RavanH on "Adaptive images for responsive design"

RavanH — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:34:58 +0000

Hi ajaxfan87, you might like what's coming in 4.4 ... read further down https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-4-4/ for example :)

RavanH on "Adaptive images for responsive design"

RavanH — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:57:35 +0000

Old discussion but still very relevant... At this time, there seem to be (maybe I missed a few) two plugins that aim to make image file size adaptive:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/new-nine-adaptive-images/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/pb-responsive-images

Both very different approaches: The first uses javascript plus PHP plus .htaccess rules (as suggested by @siteoptimo) to feed appropriate image versions. The second seems to (I have not tested) implement http://www.w3.org/TR/html-picture-element/ which at this point is only a draft.

As these approaches are very different, I agree with @Ipstenu that it is better to leave it up to plugins for now and wait until there is some consensus. Or at least until the picture element is out of draft and properly supported my common browsers.

As for WordPress users voting with their feet, looking at the download numbers of both plugins it seems there still is not much attention for the subject. Which I feel is unwarranted because it addresses one of the biggest downsides of responsive design.

Shapeshifter 3 on "Adaptive images for responsive design"

Shapeshifter 3 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:14:31 +0000

I agree with eagerbob!

eagerbob on "Adaptive images for responsive design"

eagerbob — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:03:40 +0000

I think serving adaptive images out of the box is a great idea.
It is just not right to make a responsive/fluid layout and then send the visitors huge images which are then resized by the browser.

Whether this should be a core function or a theme thing is a question for more technical people to answer, but there is no question that this is a functionality that users are going to want very soon.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Adaptive images for responsive design"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:26:05 +0000

robflate - please use wordpress.org/support for help.

robflate on "Adaptive images for responsive design"

robflate — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:01:21 +0000

siteoptimo, any chance of some tips on how to get this to work on wordpress or what your server setup is.

All I get is broken image icons on my site.

Server environment;

Dreamhost
Apache 2.2.17-2
PHP 5.2 FastCGI
mod_security on

siteoptimo on "Adaptive images for responsive design"

siteoptimo — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:18:37 +0000

No offence thanushka, but this isn't exactly the way I have it in mind.

I'm talking about adaptive, not responsive images. When loading images on smaller devices, the big filesize image shouldn't be loaded, but a smaller version (mobile first thinking).

thanushka on "Adaptive images for responsive design"

thanushka — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:27:15 +0000

A tutorial for anyone who prefer to do this without a plugin: http://www.blissfulinterfaces.com/making-wordpress-images-responsive