WordPress Animated GIFs

Using an animated GIF in a WordPress post/page or as the featured image of a post/page might be a problem.

 

The Problem

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The issue is that the animated GIF loses it’s animation and becomes static. The reason for this is because WordPress doesn’t take the original animated GIF when you choose the featured image or insert an image, it uses a resized version which has been processed.

 

The Solution

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For inserting images into posts/pages, simply choose “Full Size” which will insert the original, animated GIF.

When using an animated GIF for the featured image of a post/page, you shouldn’t set the featured image and make the animated GIF the first image in the post/page which will allow most WordPress themes to pick it up as the featured image automatically and use the original.

Please note that if your theme doesn’t automatically detect the first image as the featured image, there are several plugins which can do this for you such as Automatic Featured Image Posts and Autoset Featured Image for example.

 

The Result

Here is a quick preview of what the post excerpt looks like with the animated GIF featured image:

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Comments
  1. Marcus on May 14, 2015

    Thank you!! That finally resolved my problem!!
    And without any strange plug-ins!! 🙂

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