if animated GIF featured photos are impossible in wordpress, how do I have one?

  • consultant0service

    (@consultant0service)


    5 years ago

    Doing searches, it seems like everybody on the internet says it’s impossible to have an animated GIF as a featured photo with WordPress. Well, I have one. Somehow I got a working animated GIF (thumbnail size) as the featured photo for a post.

    Animated GIF featured photo:
    https://www.newworldorbit.com/category/dispatchesfromorbit/page/2/

    Scroll to bottom of page. You’ll see it and it’s really cool.

    If I change the date on the post to today, it top-posts and the featured photo is displayed medium size and it’s also a working animated GIF

    Is this some glitch in the theme? I mean, I want to use animated GIFs as featured photos, I just can’t figure out how to do it again. And then too, everybody tells me it’s impossible.

    I don’t know what I did to get it working on there. It was a couple years ago.
    Can somebody view source on that page and see how I did it? Or something? I’d be willing to work with somebody on this, send screen shots, copy out sections of code, whatever it takes.

    I’m using the mesocolumn theme, but the latest post for that theme is eight or nine months old, and most of them are from two or three years ago. I’m not sure anybody is using that forum.

    I’m viewing the pages in the current version of Firefox 73.0.1 (64-bit)
    The website is on a shared server at godaddy.
    I’m running a PC on Windows 10 Pro, though I can’t see that would make any difference.

    I’d really like some help. Thank you in advance.

    Nick

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author BlueGlass

    (@blueglassinteractive)

    @consultant0service probably wrong forum…

    Thread Starter consultant0service

    (@consultant0service)

    Hi there, BlueGlass:

    Thanks for taking the time to comment @blueglassinteractive

    In the Welcome to the www.remarpro.com support forums page

    Welcome to the www.remarpro.com support forums

    under Asking For Support, there’s this statement:

    “Post your question in the appropriate forum, but don’t worry if you’re unsure about which one to use, we’ll help you regardless, and may even move it to the right forum for you if there’s a better place for it.”

    The www.remarpro.com site is so bewildering to me, I don’t even know what forum I posted that question to. So if somebody is in the “we’ll help you regardless, and may even move it” mode, maybe I could get some help putting this in the correct forum.

    Thanks in advance:

    Nick

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