The annoying GIF optimizer
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I’m accustomed to using GIFs for ‘educational’ animations. Often I indicate that an action has a start and end by inserting long intervals at start and finish. This technique always displays properly in other platforms, but WP insists on making the end frame the same as the intermediate frames. Even when I try to fool the optimizer with a sequence of short still frames, it still chops off the end but not the start. In the following post I set up the GIF in three different ways to show what happens.
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Hi there, it looks like you are hotlinking those images from somewhere else. When you hotlink an image, the WordPress.com CDN caches it and there’s no way to turn that caching off.
Does this behavior also happen on GIFs that you’ve uploaded directly to your WordPress.com website?
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I also want to mention that if you have any paid upgrade plan on your WordPress.com website, you don’t need to post to the community forums. As a part of your plan, you have direct access to WordPress.com support when you post to the contact form at https://wordpress.com/help/contact
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