A proposal for "image sets" - how to deal with differing aspect ratios between sets and their automated creation about wp-tevko-responsive-images HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks for the detailed explanation @rpkoller. If I'm understanding correctly, it sounds like you're proposing an API that could be used by theme authors to expose a UI in the admin for managing sets of images, which could then be used for building responsive image sets.

1. Do I have the basic idea right?
2. Could a theme author use current WordPress functions to provide this functionality or would this require modifications to core?

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1. Roughly yes. Showing off and make ALL sets accessible inside the admin interface as soon they are defined inside the functions.php i've ruled out until now since i've thought that things should kept simple in the front end. In my initial proposal only the default set ( the initial sizes or the changed ones should have been shown). But for the further tweaking it would be handy and convenient if also the other defined sets would show up. Might be confusing if only the default set would show up in the backend and the rest does not even if you it set up inside the functions.php. But on the other hand i have to admit, for the regular enduser, it might be confusing too if a theme author has set several sets and the user now sees those sets instead of the regular three sizes he or she is used to. But i think it would be useful nevertheless as soon as any set is registered that it is displayed inside the media preferences anyway - would be a more consequent move.
   And it wouldn't be just managing and defining sizes alongside the display in the media preferences. You would also need a select box for the image set in the media edit screen that you are able to assign a set of sizes to a single image. And in the end WordPress has to replace the default size for an image with the appropriate sizes necessary reflecting the set image set (or update).
2. With the current WP functions you are only able to create the described "default set" half ways, which means unset the default three sizes and replace them with a set of image sizes you need. Which means you need to merge all sizes necessary for all sets into one. Which leads to the problem of too many unnecessary images i initially descibed. And also the size changes aren't reflected back to the media preferences. And anyway WordPress doesn't KNOW different image sets at all so far.

So to sum things up,a bit of underlying functionality is already there but i suppose there would be the need of a few modifications and extensions to the core. But in my humble opionen it would be more than benificial to have flexible responsive images managing functionality aside the orchestration with the present state of the plugin.

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What we cant do is add an image interface to the wordpress admin. I think that will only make the plugin more complicated while leading us further away from our original goal: default responsive images that work invisibly.

Whatever solution we come up with, it will have to be admin-less, while allowing theme developers to customize and improve as needed. We won't be able to cover every possible use case and that's okay

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@tevko yep would be fine with me too. The only necessary ui element in my suggested scenario would be the select element inside the media edit screen ( as soon as more than one image set would be defined inside the functions.php) so that the user can apply an image to another image set. That would be the most unobtrusive way i could imagine.

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Hey @rpkoller , while you've very interesting issue, we've determined it to be just a bit outside of the scope what we're trying to achieve with this plugin. Please continue to contribute, as we value your ideas and insight. For the time being however, we're going to close this and move on to more pressing issues

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