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:
ight 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).
That's odd, it seems to be different per site (and maybe OS since it looks like you're on a PC Grant Pankonien ?). I just tried it here too with a gif from google and no issues:
But when I copy the first one I tried from Giphy and paste it, the image doesn't stay in this post:
It seems inconsistent to me (but might not be the fault of the platform)
ight 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).
That's odd, it seems to be different per site (and maybe OS since it looks like you're on a PC Grant Pankonien ?). I just tried it here too with a gif from google and no issues:
But when I copy the first one I tried from Giphy and paste it, the image doesn't stay in this post:
It seems inconsistent to me (but might not be the fault of the platform)
Yeah I've found it's pretty inconsistent depending *where* you get your gif from. Even on Giphy if you just right click and copy/paste, it doesn't work - but once I clicked "Share" and then "Copy Gif Link" it was just fine. It's wonky on my iphone as well - sometimes gifs work, but sometimes they just don't. Clearly I'm outing myself as an avid gif user, but that's ok.
Here is my test using your original gif after clicking the Share button on Giphy then copying gif link:
Again - I clicked Share:
then 
Came here and just did good ole fashioned Ctrl + V. and it worked.
You are correct sir that I am on a PC - I haven't figured out how to build my own Macs quite yet!
