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Upload an animated GIF to WordPress and the thumbnail, medium and large copies it generates come back as a single still frame. The original still animates; every size WordPress made from it does not.
This plugin generates those subsizes with the animation intact, so a GIF stays a GIF wherever your theme happens to display it.
Features
- Every subsize WordPress generates from a GIF keeps its animation.
- Works on upload, so there is nothing to configure and nothing to run.
- Uses Imagick where your host provides it, and falls back to a built-in method where it does not.
The Pro version goes further. It applies crop, scale, rotate and flip to a GIF from the media edit screen with every frame intact, builds a new GIF out of images you already have, adds image or text watermarks, and lets you decide whether a GIF plays on load, on hover or on click.
Pro Features
- Create GIF from images.
- Add image and text watermarks to gifs.
- Control the GIF play action [ hover – click ].
- Apply all the edits operations on gif in the media edit page without losing the animation [ crop – rotate – flip – scale ].
- Optimize GIF loading by using first frame image at page load.
- Regenerate animated-subsizes.
Other Plugins for the Same Job
The ones that pair with working on images.
WP GIF Editor — the Pro version of this plugin. Crop, scale, rotate and flip GIFs with every frame intact, watermark them, build a GIF from images, and load the first frame first so a heavy GIF does not hold up the page.
Image Sizes Controller — switch off the image sizes your theme registers but never displays. Worth doing here, because every size you keep is another animated copy of every GIF.
WP Image Converter — convert a library that is already full of JPEGs and PNGs to modern formats in bulk, keeping the originals.
WP Images Watermark — put an image or text watermark on what you upload, automatically or on the images you pick.
Installation
- Upload the plugin to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Start uploading GIF images from media and subsizes will keep the animation.
- The GIF Editor settings live under Media in the admin menu.
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Why do my animated GIFs stop moving in WordPress?
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Because you are almost certainly not looking at the GIF you uploaded. WordPress
keeps your original, then generates a thumbnail, medium and large copy of every
image, and the tool it uses to do that reads only the first frame of a GIF. Your
theme displays one of those generated copies, so what you see is a still image.
The original is untouched and still animates.This plugin generates those copies with every frame intact, so whichever size
your theme picks is still animated. -
Do I have to re-upload the GIFs already in my library?
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Yes, for those existing files. The plugin works at upload time, so anything
added before you activated it still has still-frame subsizes. Re-uploading a GIF
regenerates them properly. The Pro version can regenerate animated subsizes for
images you already have, without re-uploading. -
Does it need Imagick?
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No. It uses Imagick when your host provides it, because that is the faster path,
and falls back to a built-in method when it does not. You do not have to
configure which one is used. -
Will this make my pages slower?
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An animated GIF is a large file, and keeping it animated at every size keeps it
large. That is the trade. Two things help: reduce how many image sizes your
theme registers, so there are fewer copies in the first place, and load the
first frame as a still image until the page has finished loading, which is a Pro
feature. -
Does it work with GIFs in the block editor and page builders?
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Yes. The plugin changes how the image sizes are generated, not how they are
displayed, so anything that renders a WordPress image works normally.
Reviews
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“WP GIF Uploader – Animated GIF Upload and Thumbnails” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.5
- Added: prompts on the media screens that read your own library – how many GIFs you have, how many are over 1 MB, and how many animated copies each upload turns into. Dismissible, and quiet for a month once dismissed.
- Fixed: five strings were tagged with a text domain the plugin does not register, so they could never be translated.
- Fixed: the Pro notice on the attachment screen now escapes its output.
- Fixed: the Plugin URI in this readme pointed at a page that no longer exists.
- Changed: tested up to WordPress 7.1.
- Changed: Requires PHP is now 7.0, matching the rest of our plugins. It said 5.4 in this readme and 5.6 in the plugin, and 5.6 has been unsupported since 2018.
- Added: a Frequently Asked Questions section, answering why GIFs stop animating in WordPress.
- Changed: added the short description, which was missing, and replaced the list of thirteen other plugins with four that are actually related.
1.0.4
- Tested up to WordPress 6.9.
1.0.3
- Added: Imagick support for generating GIF subsizes.
1.0.2
- Compatibility updates.