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WP GIF Uploader – Animated GIF Upload and Thumbnails

Name: WP GIF Uploader – Animated GIF Upload and Thumbnails
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: GrandPlugins

Upload animated GIFs and keep the animation in every thumbnail WordPress generates, instead of a still first frame.

WP GIF Uploader ranks #5,773 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #636 of 6,322 in the Media category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Sep 8, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.1

v1.0.5 Current Version v1.0.5

Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 08 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#636 of 6,322 in Media Top 10% by installs Downloads -67.1% this week Actively maintained

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1K+

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.0.5
Last Updated: Sep 08, 2026
Requires WP: 4.5.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1.1
PHP Version: 7.0 or higher
Author: GrandPlugins

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 1
Support Threads: 0
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who upload animated GIFs to their media library. It solves the problem of GIF animation being lost during upload and when WordPress generates image subsizes.

Preserves GIF animation on upload
Preserves animation in generated subsizes

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP GIF Uploader – Animated GIF Upload and Thumbnails

Because you are almost certainly not looking at the GIF you uploaded. WordPress keeps your original, then generates a thumbnail, medium and large copy of every image, and the tool it uses to do that reads only the first frame of a GIF. Your theme displays one of those generated copies, so what you see is a still image. The original is untouched and still animates. This plugin generates those copies with every frame intact, so whichever size your theme picks is still animated.

Yes, for those existing files. The plugin works at upload time, so anything added before you activated it still has still-frame subsizes. Re-uploading a GIF regenerates them properly. The Pro version can regenerate animated subsizes for images you already have, without re-uploading.

No. It uses Imagick when your host provides it, because that is the faster path, and falls back to a built-in method when it does not. You do not have to configure which one is used.

An animated GIF is a large file, and keeping it animated at every size keeps it large. That is the trade. Two things help: reduce how many image sizes your theme registers, so there are fewer copies in the first place, and load the first frame as a still image until the page has finished loading, which is a Pro feature.

Yes. The plugin changes how the image sizes are generated, not how they are displayed, so anything that renders a WordPress image works normally.