WP GIF Player – Play & Pause
Insert GIFs that can be played and paused into your WordPress posts and pages using shortcodes and Gutenberg blocks.
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·400 active installs·Updated 4 years agoAs of April 2026, WP GIF Player is a WordPress gif plugin with 400 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: GIF Master – Awesome GIFs with Giphy….
5/51 reviews
400active installs
8.1K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
You can select one of the three GIF player methods in the plugin options page.
GIF
This is the default method.
When a GIF is uploaded in your Media Library it will create an image thumbnail to use it as the GIF player preview and when the user clicks on the GIF player the original GIF will be loaded once.
Canvas
With this method every GIF will be loaded in your post and then converted into a playable canvas. A thumbnail image is created as well when uploading the GIF in your Media Library.
For this process we’re using the libgif.js JavaScript library by BuzzFeed.
Video (Recommended)
Every GIF file will be converted to these video formats:
- WebM
- MP4
Why videos?
It is known that GIF files sizes are bigger than a video so using a video instead of a GIF file will help your website perf…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 5.7.0 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
0.1.3
- FIX #8: add_gif_button_scripts() method running in frontend page and should run in backend
Contributors
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