Doesn't show preview

also, how do I centre them as the code doesn’t seem to pick up alignment?
thanks

Hi,
for the center problem, that’s actually a bug on our side we didn’t know about. Thank you for pointing that out, we can hopefully solve this with the next release.

It appears that you have disabled wp gif player, so we where not able to reconstruct the main issue. Should you turn it back on, drop a line and a link and we will have a look on what seems to be the problem.

Thanks

Can confirm that it does not show the preview. Setting up a new site, here is a link: https://douglasgaskell.com/test-page/

On another note, a QOL improvement might have the players size automatically set to the .GIF’s dimensions if it is less than the max allowable player size.

Hey there,

@douglasg14b It seems like the preview image doesn’t exist under the specified path on your server. If you click on the link you posted and press F12 (in chrome at least), you will see the developer console. In there I can see the following messages:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
firstAttack11_still_tmp.jpeg:1
GET https://douglasgaskell.com/wp-content/uploads/video/firstAttack11_still_tmp.jpeg 404 (Not Found)

This means that it’s a dead link. Are you sure the preview is being created properly?
To make sure you can check your uploads folder to see if the preview – ending in _still_tmp.jpeg – exists in there. (https://douglasgaskell.com/wp-content/uploads/video/firstAttack11_still_tmp.jpeg)

If it doesn’t exist, please try to upload the gif via the Add Gif Button in your editor again, and check whether that creates the preview file.

@epaccs as cudaja said, you seem to have disabled the gif palyer, so it’s hard for me to help with your issue. But in your case i can see that the preview image was created (https://www.e-paccs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/megagoodgifopt_still_tmp.jpeg). So the bug seems to be somewhere else.

As for the centering.. try adding the following styles to the div:

display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

Might be a useful feature that could be implemented directly in the shortcode at some point.

Thank you for the reply.

I uploaded a .GIF via the Add Gif button and the preview worked. However it seems the preview is not generated when selecting an already uploaded gif.

Another issue I noticed was the featured image was being set to the .gif preview image. Even after removing the featured image and updating the page it would come back. Past deleting the image from it’s directory the only way I was able to remove the featured image was to disable the plugin or remove the shortcode.

Hi sorry for not responding sooner.

I have reactivated and solved the issue, but its still a bug that you could maybe resolve in next release. The previews of my gifs aren’t being created for some reason. It makes the file but it remains an invalid file in the Media section.

I resolved this by just making my own preview of the gif, saving it as the same file name in MS Paint then uploading it and deleting the invalid previous tmp file. It then worked fine

Thanks for the support, keep up the good work!

Well I thought I had resolved it… but now my gifs aren’t showing at all once I change the height and width… ??

https://www.e-paccs.co.uk/home/running-your-gsf-report/

sorry to spam the thread, got gifs working again but only at default resolution, which is way too large.

Also the loading circle doesn’t centre, it appears in the bottom left off the gif nearly.

Gif Player does only accept it’s own resize settings at the moment.
When you add a gif via the Add GIF button, a shortcut appears in your editor, it looks like this

[WPGP gif_id="28" width="600"]

Set the value of width to your preferred size, i.e.

[WPGP gif_id="28" width="350"]

Do not add “px” or some other units behind the value.
Be aware, as stated in the instructions, you can only set values from 150 – 600 in steps of 50, so: 150, 200, 250, … 600.

That should do the trick and if not, keep spamming! ??

doh, values of 50 is where i was going wrong ?? I even remember reading that in the plugin description now. Sorry!

Thanks for your help and i look forward to future updates! great work

Thanks!

Hey douglasg14b,

as for the uploading: it only works if you upload the gifs via the “Add Gif” Button, because only then a preview image for a gif is being created.

Did you check out the settings for preview images? You can find them under Settings -> WP Gif Player in the WP Dashboard Menu. There you have a few options for preview images. One is to not set one at all.

Hope that helps!

Same problem i’m facing. “not showing thumbnails of gif” i checked settings but still not working.