Low Resolution fallback for Featured Image

  • Hi,

    Thanks for the plugin, really saves time.

    I’m using the Rosa theme, which uses Parallax, which relies on featured images. Since the WordPress Featured Image interface only allows you to select a source image at maximum size, I’m unable to use the plugin.

    I’m wondering if the plugin could, in addition to all the other wonderful things it does, do something special with Featured Images so we could get the same or similar functionality without having to manually create low and high res versions.

    I’d offer a suggestion on how to do this but I’m not sufficiently familiar with how the plugin works to be able to suggest something that makes much sense.

    Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.

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  • Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    Hey Ted,

    The feature image is usually not an image at full size, this depends completely on the theme. Well, if the Rosa theme is doing that, it’s too bad… ??

    Unfortunately the plugin cannot do that kind of magic, if something points to your maximum image then there is nothing we can provide more… But you can upload by yourself a 2x version of the full size image (which doesn’t make sense much and would just be a hack for your theme).

    However, if your full-size image is really big and you display it in a normal page, it might be looking retina already ?? Did you check? If the width of your page using parallax is 800px and your images has a width of 1600px at full-size then don’t worry about it, everything is retina already ??

    Thread Starter tedmaster

    (@tedmaster)

    Thanks a lot for the feedback. Indeed the images are considerably larger than the window width so I think we’re covered. My concern was that non-retina devices would see images that are far, far too big but then I thought about it for a while, and everything makes sense. Non-retina displays will simply be downloading extra information they won’t be able to do anything with, but the size will be whatever is set in the HTML.

    Thanks again. Nothing like a responsive developer!

    Ted

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