WordPress Plugin RICG Responsive Images
January 27, 2015Browser support for native responsive images via the srcset-Attribute is getting better and better and it’s time for WordPress to provide a native solution. Luckily there’s a bunch of very smart people, including some from the Responsive Images Community Group itself, working on it as a Feature Plugin, which i’m sure will land in core some day.
I just stumbled upon the plugin and have yet to try it myself, but it looks very promising. If you’d like to contribute to the Plugin head over to the GitHub Repo.
Basically, responsive images allow the browser to choose the best image from a list. This plugin works by including all available image sizes for each image upload. Whenever WordPress outputs the image through the media uploader, or whenever a featured image is generated, those sizes will be included in the image tag via the srcset attribute.