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GIPHY

The GIPHY integration lets users browse and send animated GIFs directly from inside the message input area. The picker calls the GIPHY API on demand — no GIFs are stored on your server.

Setup#

  1. Create a GIPHY developer account and request an SDK key
  2. Open WP Admin → Better Messages → Settings → Integrations → GIFs and set Provider to GIPHY
  3. Paste your GIPHY API key and save

A GIF tab appears in the message picker once the key is configured — in 3.0 emoji, stickers and GIFs share one picker button rather than each having their own.

Production requirements#

When you move to a GIPHY production key, GIPHY requires its "Powered By GIPHY" attribution wherever its GIFs show. Since 3.0.13 Better Messages shows it for you, with nothing to set up:

  • the GIF search field reads Search GIPHY…
  • the Powered By GIPHY mark sits over the bottom right-hand corner of the GIF tab's grid
  • every GIF sent from GIPHY carries a small Powered By GIPHY watermark in its corner in place of the "GIF" tag, GIFs sent before the update included

The marks are GIPHY's own attribution files and ship inside the plugin, so nothing loads from another server. For the production key application, take the screenshots of your attribution from the GIF tab and from a conversation with a GIF in it.

Before 3.0.13

Earlier versions needed a CSS snippet to show the badge. Update to 3.0.13 or later instead of adding one.

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