SubZtep

This plugin finds every GIF animation in your posts and replace it to a preview image. Doesn’t matter the GIF embedded from another website or use WordPress’s static thumbnail. It automatically generates the preview image from the first frame of the animation and save it to the post’s media directory with <code>-gap.jpg</code> suffix.
Posts show the pregenareted small size jpeg file first, your visitors don’t need to wait for download the huge animation. Play animation after they click on the image or after your whole page has downloaded. It depends on your setting:
<ul>
<li>You are able to stop animations everywhere</li>
<li>Or start animation automatically only inside a post</li>
<li>Or start the moves everywhere by default, use this plugin for lazyload</li>
</ul>
There are additional settings:
<ul>
<li>Pretty smooth effect between your preview and animation</li>
<li>Start animations with your mouse</li>
<li>Work with metadata and preview</li>
<li>Disable on certain images with <code>nogap</code> class</li>
</ul>
Don’t worry, delete this plugin will remove all settings from your database. Generated preview images gonna stay there, you can use them everywhere until you delete them manually.
On GitHub: 
https://github.com/SubZtep/gif-animation-preview

GIF Animation Preview

Works as advertising, and the code is really tight, too. Nicely done.



Fantastic plugin

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Replace GIF animations to a static preview image

GrandPlugins

The plugin handles the GIF upload process without losing the GIF animation in the uploaded gif and all generated subsizes.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Upload the GIF to your wordpress without losing the animation in the GIF subsizes.</li>
</ul>
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If you want more options, in Pro Version offers applying all edit operations like [ croping, scaling, rotating, flipping ] on GIFs without losing the animation. 
The plugin offers an option to create a GIF from images including other GIFs and also adding watermarks [ image watermarks – text watermarks ] to GIFs. 
you can control the GIF play action in your posts to be autoplay or on hover or on click.
<h3>Pro Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create GIF from images.</li>
<li>Add image and text watermarks to gifs.</li>
<li>Control the GIF play action [ hover – click ].</li>
<li>Apply all the edits operations on gif in the media edit page without losing the animation [ crop – rotate – flip – scale ].</li>
<li>Optimize GIF loading by using first frame image at page load.</li>
<li>Regenerate animated-subsizes.</li>
</ul>
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WP GIF Uploader

The plugin handles the GIF upload process without losing the GIF animation in the uploaded gif and all generated subsizes.

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