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.
Thanks so much for all the advice! I'm trying to take it from a Word doc however - and haven't been able to get any of these methods to work. Would you happen to know if I need to save it down as some format on my desktop as it only offers 'Save as Picture' so I can't find a way to move it across the the post:
So, I've tried the drag & drop directly from the Word doc, but it doesn't appear in the post at all.
I tried saving it down on the computer, or copy and paste, but then it appears as a static image. The same if I upload it within the post as an image/video, or in the file upload space, also in thumbnail part.
I also tried the forum post.. but so far they all come out as static!
Could you send me the word doc directly by chance? I can’t say I’ve ever tried to snag a gif embedded in a word doc but happy to play around!
yes of course, will do - I'll send that over on email now, Thank you!
Thank you for sending! I'll let you officially put a bow on this one Parker Rose Muir but believe we are all sorted. This was due to how the gif was embedded in the word doc. Once we saved it from the source it played nicely as a gif and could be inserted into the blog post. Please let us know if you need anything else!
Thanks so much Grant Pankonien and to everyone here for their help on this! Yes now resolved and great to know we can use animated graphics / GIFs in posts also, will start using them much more now!
thanks again everyone for the quick and detailed help on this!
thanks again everyone for the quick and detailed help on this!