How to get animated gifs to work in Craft CMS

Oscar de la Hera Gomez
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In order to allow Craft CMS to use animated gifs, set transformGifs to false in general.php

A screenshot of VSCode showing how to apply transform gifs in the general.php file.

Unfortunately, Craft CMS cleanses and transforms gifs which removes their animations when uploading gifs. To fix this, open your general.php and add the following line:

'transformGifs' => false

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