Welcome back to this series on GIFs in WordPress. Animated GIF content is a quick and relatively easy way to add life to your content, and in Part 1, we discussed ways to add GIFs to your WordPress site, as well as steps you can take to ensure that the GIFs display and animate properly.<\/p>\n
In this second part, we will look at all the ways these GIFs can cause commonly encountered issues for you and how we can handle them.<\/p>\n
GIPHY is a GIF provider, as you might be well aware if you have used online GIFs for pretty much anything. You might not know, however, that GIPHY also provides software for free use that can help you create GIFs.<\/p>\n
The thing with GIPHY (jiffy!) is, the rules come into play when you decide to use the GIFs for anything other than personal social media use.<\/p>\n
The basic idea is that if you didn\u2019t create that particular GIF, you don\u2019t own it. And if you don\u2019t own it, the content comes under the purview of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) of the United States \u2013 which pretty much just means that for commercial purposes, you can\u2019t use copyrighted material or any intellectual property that doesn\u2019t belong to you \u2013 which includes GIFs.<\/p>\n
So while GIPHY does provide you with embed links that allow you to easily use the GIF content on your website, you would be better off researching the source of the GIF to ensure you\u2019re even allowed to use it on the website.<\/p>\n
This is yet another way of sourcing GIF content and a convenient one at that. Right-click on the GIF you like and copy it. You can go ahead and paste it into your WordPress edit mode.<\/p>\n
While we use words like \u2018copying\u2019 and \u2018pasting\u2019, do remember that you\u2019re not actually copying the file, but a link to it. So your page will source the GIF from that link, and load it from there, instead of having a copy in your Media Library. This means that you have no control over how long the GIF will be available, and if the owner does anything at all, like remove it or update the link, you\u2019ll be stuck with one of those dreaded empty placeholders. So you\u2019ll have to keep an eye out for that possibility.<\/p>\n
GIFs that stop moving are among the most common niggles in the GIF world. When a GIF that used to work perfectly fine stops moving, it could be due to a few different reasons. Some GIF creating tools might set a limit on how many times the GIF will loop its animation. So if the creator hadn\u2019t explicitly set the GIF to an infinite loop, you may face this issue.<\/p>\n
Another scenario is where your own code or the browser you\u2019re using has interfered with the GIF displaying properly. To troubleshoot this by loading the GIF on a different device or browser and verify that they\u2019re not the cause.<\/p>\n
Now that you\u2019ve figured out what might be causing the issues, you can set about fixing the problem. Remember to verify that all GIFs in WordPress are set to \u2018Full Size\u2019 as we mentioned in Part 1.<\/p>\n
For a GIF that has been pasted in from the internet, check that the original file URL is still online and that the URL hasn\u2019t been changed or redirected.<\/p>\n
A word from the wise, the best option to avoid any GIF trouble is to create your own GIFs to avoid copyright problems, and upload them securely to your own Media Library to ensure constant availability.<\/p>\n
This concludes this two-part series on GIFs in WordPress, and we hope you\u2019re well on your way to making your website, and the Internet, more animated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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