animated GIF support for featured media

[aschweigert]

right now it just shows a static piece of the GIF (probably smart for performance reasons), is there a way we can support actual animation in featured images in some limited/sane way?

[rclations]

Resizing gifs is a known issue in WP Core - https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28474 Single post view does show the animated gif properly - it's the other views (most notably, homepage) where the image is automatically resized.

Before we go further on this ticket, I'd like to learn how other themes handle this -

Next steps:

• Review the following themes to see how they handle animated gifs on single page views & archive pages, post the results back here.
  • https://wordpress.org/themes/make/
  • https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyseventeen/

[benlk]

Let's wait for Core's support here.