Retina ready is a brand name used by Apple for screens that have a higher pixel density than their previous models. The terms are used for several Apple products, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iPad Mini, iPad Air and iMac. Here, in this post we have collected some of the useful free WordPress retina ready plugins for your WordPress blogs.
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Max Mega Menu
WordPress Mega Menu Plugin. Create widgetized mega menus using the built in visual mega menu builder. Drag & drop Mega Menu builder, Display WordPress Widgets in your menu, Built in theme editor with 100+ customization options, Supports Flyout (traditional) or Mega Menu sub-menu styles, Hover Intent or click event to open menus, Fade or Slide transitions, Add icons to menu items, ‘Hide Text’ and ‘Disable Link’ options per menu item, Align menu items to the left or right of the menu bar and more.
Social Media Feather
WordPress Social Media Feather is a super lightweight free social media WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and painlessly add social sharing and following features to all your posts, pages and custom post types. The plugin supports adding of social buttons for sharing or following (that is, social buttons that link to your social network profiles pages). The social media buttons can be easily and automatically be added to all your posts, pages or any other custom post types.
Cryptex HD – E-Mail Address Protection
The Cryptex plugin for WordPress is used to display email addresses – that are normally expressed in plain text – as an image automatically. It works with emails, telephone numbers, postal addresses or any other text-content. This will stop harvesters and crawlers from gathering sensitive data from your website. Fully customizable appearance: you can configure font-family, font-size and font-color – everything looks like your theme style. Also useable to protect postal-addresses, telephone-numbers, names and other sensitive information.
Easy Responsive Shortcodes
This plugin provides a full set of easy-to-use shortcodes for creating columns, buttons, tabs, icons, and much more. It’s been designed especially for use in responsive themes, but should work fine in any theme, whether responsive or not. It’s also fully Retina-display ready, and search engine optimized. The plugin is designed to be fast, easy, and lightweight, and does not bring along any massive frameworks like Bootstrap that slow down your site.
BJ Lazy Load
Lazy loading makes your site load faster and saves bandwidth. This plugin replaces all your post images, post thumbnails, gravatar images and content iframes with a placeholder and loads the content as it gets close to enter the browser window when the visitor scrolls the page. Also works with text widgets. You can also lazy load other images and iframes in your theme, by using a simple function.
Lazy Retina
Lazy Retina boost your website performance and reduce the traffic because images outside of viewport (visible part of web page) won’t be loaded until the user scrolls to them. This lazy technique works with jQuery or zepto.js. The Lazy Retina plugin automatically adds retina sizes to every (custom) image size.
StagTools
StagTools powers your WordPress website with some regularly needed shortcodes including buttons, columns, alerts, font icons etc. It also includes several widgets and custom post types (only for Codestag Themes).
WP Webapp
WP Webapp is a WordPress plugin that allows you to turn any WordPress website into a mobile web app. This plugin easily adds webapp functionality to your WordPress site. This allows you to add a home screen icon so users can bookmark your site on their mobile device and access it like a native app. You can also set a SPLASH screen which will show up when a user opens your site from the home screen icon.
Perso Slider
Beautiful images and videos slider, responsive and retina, autoplay, touch devices, youtube, vimeo, keek, instagram support, compatible with all major browsers. Unlimited amount of images and videos to be added to the slider. Custom wrap width and wrap height. YouTube and Vimeo and Keek support. Instagram images support. Easy to use and without options page, 2 shortcodes only.
WP Retina 2x
This plugin creates the image files required by the Retina (High DPI) devices and displays them to your visitors accordingly. Your website will look beautiful and crisp on every device! The retina images will be generated for you automatically – though you can also do it manually – and served to the retina devices. It supports different methods to serve the images to your visitors, for instance: PictureFill (future HTML standard + its JS polyfill), Retina.js (JS only), IMG Rewrite (on-the-fly HTML rewrite) and Retina-Images (server handler).
SrcSet Responsive Images for WordPress
SrcSet responsive images for WordPress allows you to assign a SrcSet group to an image size within WordPress (e.g. medium or large). Any image within a post or page using that image size will have the SrcSet group’s attribute applied to it resulting in responsive images using the srcset attribute. This allows for less overhead when loading a website, improving load times, and reducing the amount of bandwidth visitors have to consume to view the site.
Array Toolkit
If your theme supports portfolio items, the Toolkit adds a Portfolio custom post type. Once enabled, you will see a Portfolio Items menu item, which you can use to create your portfolio. If your theme supports custom galleries, the Toolkit adds custom image gallery support. Once enabled, you can create custom, editable and rearrangable image galleries using the new 3.5 Media Manager.
Smart Icons For WordPress
Smart Icons For WordPress plugin brings to you 479 SVG icons from Font Awesome. Users can include these icons to posts, pages or custom post types with just a click of a button above WordPress editor. CSS effects like radius and shadow to customize the icons. Supports for last two versions of all the major browsers. Doesn’t dependent on TinyMCE 4 editor API, use any editor of your choice.
HiDPI Gravatars
Automatically replaces the standard resolution Gravatars with HiDPI (Retina) Gravatars using HTML (when supported) or Javascript (as needed). You need this plugin if you want blog comments to look crisp and clear on Retina, HD, and similar devices! You need this plugin if you want compatibility with all web browsers. The HiDPI features added in WordPress 4.2 are not compatible with older browsers, unless you have this plugin activated.
Suppamenu – WordPress Mega Menu
An excellent responsive, Customizable, Powerful and User-Friendly WordPress Mega Menus plugin, That Allows you to create unlimited mega menus with different sub-menus types. Build Multi-Functional Menus from your pages, posts, categories, custom post types. Suppa is WPML Ready, in case you want to run multiple languages at once! Suppa comes with more than 10 skin, you can choose from these skins or you can create your own skin from the admin panel and save it.
