Title: Animated webp oddness
Last modified: August 14, 2026

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# Animated webp oddness

 *  Resolved [Topher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/topher1kenobe/)
 * (@topher1kenobe)
 * [3 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/animated-webp-oddness/)
 * I have an animated gif. If I upload it, Cimo converts it and flattens it. So 
   I pivot and convert to an animated webp and then upload. In the editor this looks
   fine, the animation is there. On the front end it’s flat, no animation. This 
   feels like it shouldn’t be Cimo’s fault, since obviously there’s animation, I
   can see it in the editor. But I can’t think of what else it would be. Ideally
   it would simply convert the gif properly.

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 *  Plugin Support [Charmela Malala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charmela/)
 * (@charmela)
 * [4 days, 10 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/animated-webp-oddness/#post-19009124)
 * Hi [@topher1kenobe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/topher1kenobe/) ,
 * Thanks for the report! We’ll check if we can add support for converting animated
   GIFs to animated WebP when uploading them.

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 * Last reply from: [Charmela Malala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charmela/)
 * Last activity: [4 days, 10 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/animated-webp-oddness/#post-19009124)
 * Status: resolved