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Responsive Opt-Out allows visitors of your site to switch between the flexible and fixed width layout.

This simple setup creates a body class called “responsive” and “fixed-width” both are added to the body class of your Theme. These two classes are used to define whether or not visitor wants a “responsive” environment.

Here is a demo site that I have created using Responsive:

Demo

This the code you use for the switch buttons.

<a href="#" onclick="return FixedWidth();" class="fixed-width-link">Fixed Width</a>
<a href="#" onclick="return Responsive()" class="responsive-link">Reponsive</a>

This CSS would display the right button in the right view.

.responsive .fixed-width-link {
	display: block!important;
}
.responsive .responsive-link {
	display: none!important;
}
.fixed-width .fixed-width-link {
	display: none!important;
}
.fixed-width .responsive-link {
	display: block!important;
}

Here I was working in a child theme so was unable to edit the parent media queries but was still able to get a good result resting the css in the media queries.

The basic fixed width CSS needed for Responsive would be:

/* =Fixed Width
-------------------------------------------------------- */
.fixed-width #container,
.fixed-width #footer {
	width: 960px!important;
}

.fixed-width .grid, 
.fixed-width .grid-right,
.fixed-width .menu ul, 
.fixed-width .menu li, 
.fixed-width .footer-menu li, 
.fixed-width .sub-header-menu li {
	float: left!important;
}

.fixed-width .top-menu {
	float: right!important;
}

.fixed-width #logo {
	float: left!important;
}

.fixed-width .tinynav {
	display: none!important;
}

.fixed-width .sb-holder {
	display: none!important;
}

.fixed-width .menu {
	display: block!important;
}

.fixed-width #featured p {
	font-size: 18px!important;
	line-height: 27px!important;
}

.fixed-width .featured-title {
	font-size: 60px!important;
}

.fixed-width .featured-subtitle {
	font-size: 2.25em!important;
}

.fixed-width .call-to-action a.button {
	font-size: 24px!important;
	padding: 15px 35px!important;
}

.top-widget {
	float: right!important;
}

.fixed-width .top-widget area,
.fixed-width .top-widget select,
.fixed-width .top-widget textarea,
.fixed-width .top-widget input[type="text"], 
.fixed-width .top-widget input[type="password"] {
	width: auto!important;
}

.fixed-width .widget-title,
.fixed-width .widget-title-home h3 {
	font-size: 24px!important;
	height: 23px!important;
	line-height: 23px!important;
	text-align: left!important;
}

.fixed-width .main-nav #responsive_current_menu_item {
	display: none!important;
}

.fixed-width .main-nav .menu {
	top: 0;
}

.fixed-width .main-nav .menu a {
	font-weight: 700!important;
}

.fixed-width .main-nav .menu li a {
	color: #fff;
	border: none;
}

.fixed-width .main-nav .menu li.current_page_item,
.fixed-width .menu .current_page_item a,
.fixed-width .menu .current-menu-item a,
.fixed-width .main-nav .menu li {
	background-color: transparent;
}

.js .fixed-width .main-nav .menu li a:hover,
.js .fixed-width .main-nav .menu li li a:hover {
	background-color: #808080;
	background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,from(#808080),to(#363636));
	background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#808080,#363636);
	background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#808080,#363636);
	background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#808080,#363636);
	background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top,#808080,#363636);
	background-image: linear-gradient(top,#808080,#363636);
	color: #fff;
	filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#808080,endColorstr=#363636);
}

Download

You can also find the plugin on github.

Extra

I would be interested to see how many visitor use the button. You can track the number of click of the buttons with the use of Google analytic events. The results can be viewed in the Google Analytic dashboard. The html for these buttons will look like this.

<a href="#" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Click', 'Responsive Opt-Out', 'Fixed Width']); return FixedWidth();" class="fixed-width-link">Fixed Width</a>

<a href="#" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Click', 'Responsive Opt-Out', 'Responsive']); return Responsive()" class="responsive-link">Reponsive</a>

Thank you Andrew for supporting this plugin.