MichaelMangum

RESOLVED

I was having issues because of a Coming Soon plugin I had. Once I deleted the Coming Soon plugin I could then go through the reset settings instructions, and it worked. Nevermind 🙂

Good news! Perhaps it can be shared with anyone else that may have the same concern I had. I installed a new plugin called Simple Image Sizes and it did exactly what I had hoped it would do. Not only did it enable me to create new thumbnail sizes (the sizes that SHOULD have been included with the theme in the first place) in the context of the Settings –> Media area of the Dashboard, but it also created an option to “Show version in post insertion?” for ALL of the other size options that WERE included in the theme, but did not come up in the dropdown menu when inserting into post/page. All the different size options were not available in the post/page media insert dropdown menu without that option in the Simple Image Sizes plugin.

So that solves another problem I was having (that for the life of me I could NOT get an answer from the developer). Additionally, the way Simple Image Sizes works WP Retina 2X works WITH it, and creates retina versions for the new thumbnail sizes I created with Simple Image Sizes plugin.

I’m excited to go back to the developer and say “don’t worry, I figured it out, no thanks to you”, lol. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a GREAT theme, but the theme documenation/tutorials are terrible, as is the support. Anyway, just thought I’d pass that along.

Last thing. I don’t have a Macbook Pro w/ retina, so I can’t test if it’s actually serving the “@2x” version for retina devices. Would you mind just taking a quick look at the page source to see if it’s serving properly? I just activated the “Rewrite HTML” method of the plugin as well. If you do have a second to look, my site is currently on a temporary domain: http://69.89.31.129/~uplandd2/ and the 2 images in question (the ones I think I was able to resolve) are halfway down the home page, just above the headings “Available Properties” and “Build Updates”. If you’re busy, no worries.

I’ll be sure to donate! Thanks again!

Thanks very much for your help. I really like the plugin, I’m just having headaches over how the theme works with it. I’ll keep it in mind. Thanks again!

That’s fine. Just thought I’d check first.

My issue, I’m just trying to figure out exactly how this theme works still. I know how the browser/code works for retina devices, and I know how to just do everything manually in the backend, but I know if I can figure out how this plugin works with the theme it’ll simplify the process for me.

In my theme, the plugin generates retina-ready versions of several different sizes. There’s the standard thumbnail/medium/large etc. with every WP, and then the plugin also generates other versions “large-blog” “medium-blog” and the list goes on (exactly which other versions within my theme not important to my question). But within my theme there are also other user-uploaded images that do not fit the label of what versions the plugin states it creates retina-ready for. I.e. I listed “large-blog” and “medium-blog” as being versions that show up in the plugin settings (I’ll include a screenshot of what I mean in case there’s still confusion there), but there is a section in the theme, for example, called Content Boxes (created with a shortcode) and there is no “Content-Boxes” version within the plugin options.

(Have I lost ya?)

It’s difficult to explain what the problem is in text 🙂

Say for example I have an image that is large enough for ALL possible uses on my website, both retina and “regular” and I upload it not through FTP but via Media Library. Let’s say I also have the “auto generate for all Media Library uploads” option ticked in the plugin settings. The plugin will generate @2x for all the versions, but how exactly do I utilize them within the theme? Again, I can always just go in and upload via FTP two different versions, then inside the HTML reference the permalink for the image and have @2x right next to it, but I’m not seeing how the plugin integrates with the theme. It’s frustrating because I’m no dummy with WP and HTML, but I can’t seem to figure this out.

I’ll supply login info if you want.