Great plugin and a must have

  • (Updated review 29-12-2016)
    I’ve been using this plugin for years now and it has performed without flaws all this time. A must have plugin for any website that wants to look good on Retina devices. An single problem in which WP-rocket broke my websites after an update was solved quickly.

    If one wants an optimal solution it should be noted that one should nowadays check for overlap with themes and caching software, since they tend to contain lazyload and Retina device solutions themselves. The solution choosen by theme developers are normally less efficient than this plugin and cost bandwidth and pageload time.

    I’ve seen that recent Studiopress genesis framework child themes just use double the needed size images, and others theme’s I’ve bought even used fullsize images, which for sure is not best standard. The solution offered by this plugin is usually better for pageload and bandwidth on non-retina devices, so in those cases it is better to change the theme to just use the non-retina size thumbnails and in stead use this wp-retina 2x plugin. Otherwise you can probably better not use this plugin, since it will double the already double size images again, making an inefficient workaround even more inefficient.

    Before using this plugin I hadn’t yet thought about the problems that are solved by it, so it’s very nice that Jordy has and made a solution for us all. ?? It works great, and I was convinced of the technical quality of it after reading a great review on isaumya.com. It has proven very stable through the years I have used it on several websites. A must have and probably something that should be core WordPress functionality!

    I use it in conjunction with WP-Rocket caching plugin and that seems to function well.

    I feel more secure now about presenting my websites in the best possible manner to all users. Thank you, Jordi, for this plugin.

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Hans Schuijff.
    • This topic was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Hans Schuijff.
    • This topic was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Hans Schuijff.
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  • Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    Are you sure EWWW does that? Normally EWWW doesn’t change the size of your images, it just optimizes it.

    About the lazy-load I think you are using the one with my plugin right now. I am not sure the lazy-load of a caching plugin could override or be combined with the one in the retina plugin. But don’t worry, the one in the retina plugin is really good associated with PictureFill and is also SEO-friendly.

    About caching, my recommendation always goes to pick a very good hosting service, they handle the caching better than any plugin. I don’t use any caching plugins for my websites.

    Thanks a lot for you review ??

    Thread Starter Hans Schuijff

    (@hanswitteprins)

    Hi Jordy,

    Thank you for your swift reply on this. I don’t exactly know the technical aspects of the plugins since I’m mostly just a wordpress administrator and user not a programmer.

    After renaming a lot of the images using your other plugin, I used Filezilla to look at the actual upload files and noticed that although most images had a 150×150.jpg and a 150×150@2x version, that some images did not have a 150×150.jpg but in stead something like 150×111.jpp next to a 150×[email protected]. Since I’d only used your retina plugin and ewwww my conclusion was that ewwww must have made the 150×111.jpg in stead of the 150×150.jpg. I might be wrong about the cause, but in that cases there was not a 150×150.jpg version and somewhere I got a message about that, but I don’t remember in what plugin that was. There should be no need for a 150×111 since that is not a defined size on my website.

    I’ve used since then the plugin Regenerate Thumbnails to correct the problem, so for me there is no longer a problem here. I don’t know what circumstances created it, and imagine its not much to go on for a programmer. Sorry about that. Even without ewww, the smaller versions where created, so I imagine retina 2x perhaps makes them to? But like I understand it, ewww creates smaller versions of the Original images in al defined sizes to Optimize page load times.

    About Lazy load, As I understand you now, you’re telling me that it would be enough to use retina 2x for that reason. So I don’t need BJ Lazy Load any more. I will deactivate them. The reviews I was referring to where the once of Saumya Majumder. In his review of wp rocket (https://www.isaumya.com/wp-rocket-review-the-next-generation-of-wp-caching-plugin/) he mentions a limitation of both wp rocket and retina 2x in that issue, and I’ve read in your reactions (don’t know where) that retina 2x may have some issues with caching plugins in this subject. Perhaps I just didn’t understand enough.

    His review of the Retina plugin and also the lazy load of it, is very positive (https://www.isaumya.com/wp-retina-2x-pro-review-of-a-must-have-wordpress-image-plugin/) so he advises the combination of Retina 2x Pro and wp rocket for shared hosted websites. I quess I also still need the lazy load for videos, so that stays too.

    I understand that good hosting services, especially ones that are configured for wordpress have lots of advantages, but they mostly cost much more than I now can spend on this. At some point I may switch, and experience the advantages of that. It’s a process.

    Thank you for your help and for the plugin. I Appreciate tham both very much. I trust your knowledge and skills. Thank you! ??

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