Tim Evko is a Front-End Engineer working on responsive e-commerce for BaubleBar in Manhattan, NY. An experienced WordPress theme developer and plugin author, Tim helps lead and manage the team responsible for developing the RICG-responsive-images WordPress plugin. Tim has had the pleasure of writing for CSS-Tricks, Scotch.io, Web Design Weekly, and SitePoint, where he focuses on responsive web development, performance, and general industry related issues.
Employing the functionality under the constraints of a large CMS like WordPress, can be very difficult to do, since the growing adoption of responsive images cannot be ignored. Thankfully, with the launch of WordPress 4.4, theme developers and maintainers will find it much easier to introduce responsive image functionality into their themes. In this article, Tim Evko will take a look at how the feature works, and how you can use it to get the best support for your WordPress site.
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With Mat Marquis of the Responsive Images Community Group, Tim Evko decided to refactor a plugin that he had built several months ago, hoping that it would lead to a more useable and performant solution. After months of pull requests, conversations on Slack and help from WordPress’ core team, they’re finally ready to share what they’ve been working on! You can download and install RICG Responsive Images from WordPress’ plugin directory.
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