Are there themes that use different media for mobiles?

  • Resolved OM2

    (@om2)


    3 years ago

    I haven’t looked extensively or anything…
    But I haven’t come across themes that optimise for mobiles when it comes to media – images & videos.

    I would have thought it was always good policy to have 2 images.

    For example… a front page slideshow…
    I will upload 1920 x 400 images (just made that up) for each image.
    On the mobile version… yes the CSS changes to optimise for mobile…
    But it still uses the big image.

    Is there any reason why this is?

    Lazy coding?
    Or hard to do and maintain on WP?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    WordPress creates derivative images from any you upload. If needed, you can tell WP to create others, too.

    When you insert an image into something, WP produces a “srcset” tag that presents the browser with a list of image files and sizes so the browser can pick the one that best fits the available space.

    There’s no need to upload multiple sizes.

    Thread Starter OM2

    (@om2)

    Aha ??
    That makes perfect sense

    The themes I’ve tried I’m sure are lazy
    These I bought for around $60 each
    A lovely slideshow – that was HEAVY
    When I asked the authors, they said it was the same image as use in desktop

    But… that would sound lazy I think – if WP create these images anyway… then why not use the smaller ones for mobile!

    I’ll need to do more investigation.

    Thanks for helping. ????

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