Do you want to add animated GIFs to your WordPress site? Giphy makes it easy to find, find and share animated GIFs on the web, in text messages, and on social media.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to easily add animated GIFs from Giphy to WordPress using Giphypress.
Pros and Cons of Using Animated GIFs in WordPress
You must have seen animated GIFs used on popular websites like BuzzFeed, List25, Reddit, etc. GIFs allow you to add animated reactions, funny trivia and more.
The reason why GIFs are so popular is because they are fun and very engaging. They allow you to increase the time that users spend on your site. Articles with Gif are also more likely to be shared and go viral.
The downside to animated GIFs is that they can slow down your site, and it can take a long time to create.
That's where Giphy comes in.
Giphy is a popular website that allows you to find and share animated GIFs. It has thousands of GIF images stored in categories and sorted by hashtags.
If you are on a accommodation Shared WordPress, so serving your GIFs through Giphy will save your bandwidth. This will also have an impact on the loading speed of your site.
With that said, let's take a look at the method that will allow you to easily add GIFs from Giphy to WordPress using Giphypress.
How to Add Gif of Giphy on WordPress Articles
The first thing you need to do is install and activate the Giphypress plugin. For more details see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress Plugin.
After its activation, you need to create a new post or page. On the post editor, you'll notice a new button titled " GIPHY GIF Search ».
Clicking on the button will bring up the Giphy search in a pop-up window. You will see recent and "trending" GIFs with menu and search bar at the bottom.
You can browse or search for GIF to find one for your article.
Once you find a GIF, click on it to enlarge it. Now you can click on the "Embed into post" button to add the GIF in your article.
Giphypress will now integrate GIF as an iframe in your article. You can save it and update your article and even preview it.
That's it for this tutorial. I hope it will allow you to view GIFs quickly on your WordPress blog.
