This plugin creates the image files required by Retina devices (or any high DPI devices) and displays them to your visitors accordingly. Your website will look beautiful and crisp on all devices. The retina images will be generated for you automatically (you can also do it manually) and served to your visitors. You will be able to control everything from a nice dashboard.
As of WordPress 4.4 , responsive image support has been added to the core. The plugin has never supported responsive images (only retina), so this is good news. The plugin already supports this new WordPress and adds retina images to the src set. It also gives you options to control what WP 4.4 is doing (and also to remove the new image size that was added and may be redundant).
Check out the tutorial , FAQ and official support forum .
I originally built WP Retina 2x for my own use, and of course I use it on my two main sites. Want to see what it does and how my sites look on Retina? Visit them at:
I recommend WP Engine and SiteGround , both of which are very good WordPress hosting services with fast and serious support. If they’re too expensive for you, I recommend HostGator . They don’t offer the best performance, but they’re cheap and have surprisingly good support.
WP Retina 2x does not optimize your images. But if you are interested in optimizing your images, I have a page about Image Optimization plugins here: Image Optimization for WordPress .