How to Add Animated GIFs in WordPress (The RIGHT Way)

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GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) can help grab your visitors' attention and increase engagement on your blog posts. However, when you add an animated GIF in WordPress, it may lose the animation and appear as a simple static image.

We have had this problem before on our own blog, so we decided to solve the problem and share our results.

In this article, we will show you step by step how to properly add animated GIFs in WordPress.

How to add animated GIFs in WordPress
Why are WordPress GIFs not working properly?
Sometimes GIF animations in WordPress become static list of uruguay cell phone number images because it automatically generates multiple sizes of the image, but only starting from the first frame of the animation.

Why is that?

Whenever you add an image to your WordPress site using the Media Uploader, WordPress automatically creates multiple copies of that image in different sizes.

There are 4 standard WordPress image sizes , including thumbnail, medium, large and full size.

Image size in WordPress
However, when new image sizes are created for animated GIFs, WordPress only saves the first image of the GIF file.

So if you insert any of these generated image sizes into your post or page, they will be static images, so WordPress GIFs will not work.