Hello - does anyone know how I can enable a member to include a GIF in one of their posts, please? I've tried every which way I can think of, in the blog and forum, but they all seem to come out as static images instead of GIFs.
Thank you!
Hello - does anyone know how I can enable a member to include a GIF in one of their posts, please? I've tried every which way I can think of, in the blog and forum, but they all seem to come out as static images instead of GIFs.
Thank you!
Parker Rose Muir I've had similar issues with gifs in the past. You might want to read through Zoom works on images but not gifs for some additional information and context.
How is the member "including" the gif? Is it being copied from another site (such as https://giphy.com/) using a standard copy/paste? If so, the static image will be copied. Alternatively, if you take the URL of the image and insert that like a file, it should work as expected (minus the zoom settings per the post I mentioned above).
I tried this in this reply, using https://giphy.com/gifs/community-donald-glover-zPOErRpLtHWbm (the first result for "Community" in Giphy ). When I copy the image and paste it (which isn't working on this reply for some reason, but I tried in Outlook too), only the static image is copied:
But grabbing the image's url:
allows you to insert it on the post
and save the post/reply, showing the gif:
Edit: In v12 (which I haven't upgraded to yet), I believe I've seen other communities have an embeddable for giphy to make this easier for members.
The relevancy of that gif... Using my "normal" way of posting gifs seems to work as well:
I searched for a gif just using google images. Right click on the gif. Click "Copy image"
then I come paste it here and all is well. Wonder if this is a allowed file type setting not turned on (since I am an Admin here).
Here is a drag/dropped version from my computer. I saved the image to my computer, then just drag/dropped it over into this reply.
Also if you're using giphy.com you should be able to just click the "share" button and click Copy GIF link
then just come to a post/reply and click paste, it will automatically show the gif:
Also if you're using giphy.com you should be able to just click the "share" button and click Copy GIF link
then just come to a post/reply and click paste, it will automatically show the gif: