Issues uploading gif animation
By John Bongiovanni on Saturday, 11 February 2017
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I saw the post and response about gif animation not working if the image is resized, as it will be if it's uploaded through EasyBlog (it used to work in some earlier release ...). So I uploaded the image using FTP into the user's media folder.

Two problems:

1. The image doesn't appear when I go to select the image from the user's media. It is there, as I can get it into the post by editing the HTML to reference the filename (without changing the folder). Clearing cache (Joomla and browser) doesn't fix it.

2. The gif animation plays in the blog post, but it plays constantly. Is there a way I can get it to play when the user clicks it? Maybe some HTML edit? I notice that blog posts with gif animation that I made using an earlier version of EasyBlog will do this.

TIA.
Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.


I saw the post and response about gif animation not working if the image is resized, as it will be if it's uploaded through EasyBlog (it used to work in some earlier release ...). So I uploaded the image using FTP into the user's media folder.

1. The image doesn't appear when I go to select the image from the user's media. It is there, as I can get it into the post by editing the HTML to reference the filename (without changing the folder). Clearing cache (Joomla and browser) doesn't fix it.

I believe if you manually upload those image file through your FTP server, it will not work when you browse the image from the composer page because those image didn't go through the Easyblog media manager to process it.

2. The gif animation plays in the blog post, but it plays constantly. Is there a way I can get it to play when the user clicks it? Maybe some HTML edit? I notice that blog posts with gif animation that I made using an earlier version of EasyBlog will do this.

For those GIF image format only work if you using WYSIWYG editor e.g. Tiny-MCE or JCE editor at this point of time.
You can check my video here : http://screen.stackideas.com/Screencast_12-08_11-02-2017.mp4

And currently that was not possible to click that image on the blog post content only show the GIF image.
Arlex Wong
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Saturday, 11 February 2017 12:13
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Thanks for the quick reply on the weekend. I do use the JCE editor, so how do I embed the gif file or a video like yours into a blog post?
John Bongiovanni
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Wednesday, 15 February 2017 23:46
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You can take a look of my attached screenshot below.

Hope this help.
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 16 February 2017 11:40
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I get it. You just use the editor's insert image instead of EasyBlog's media manager. Makes sense. Thanks very much.
John Bongiovanni
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Thursday, 16 February 2017 17:07
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Hi there,

You are most welcome. Glad to hear that your issue has been resolved now.

As a gentle reminder, kindly start a new thread if you have any other issue in the future so it will be easier for us to manage your inquiry. I will lock and mark this thread as resolved.
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 16 February 2017 18:43
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