Reply with GIFs (GIPHY)

Comments can let your visitors search GIPHY (opens new window) and attach a GIF to any comment or reply — handy for more casual, social discussions.

Setup

1. Create a GIPHY API key from the GIPHY Developers dashboard (opens new window).
2. In the control panel, go to Comments → Settings → Comments Form and find the GIPHY section.
3. Turn on Reply with GIFs.
4. Enter your GIPHY API Key. You can paste the key directly, or reference an environment variable (e.g. $GIPHY_API_KEY) — recommended, so the key stays out of your project config.
5. Optionally adjust the GIF Content Rating (g, pg, pg-13, r) and GIF Results Limit.

Once enabled, a GIF button appears on the comment form (and on every reply form). Visitors can search GIPHY, pick a GIF, and it’ll be shown alongside their comment. A comment can be GIF-only — no text is required when a GIF is attached.

How it works

• GIF search is proxied through the plugin’s own controller action (comments/comments/giphy-search), so your API key is never exposed to the browser.
• The chosen GIF’s URL is validated to be a GIPHY-hosted URL before it’s stored against the comment, preventing arbitrary URLs/markup from being saved.
• The GIF URL is stored in the gifUrl attribute of the comment element, and is available in Twig as comment.gifUrl and via GraphQL as gifUrl.

Settings reference