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Adding an audio player to your WordPress site is only half the job. We compared 6 popular audio player plugins for podcasts, music sites, and online courses, walked through setup step by step, and shared some ideas for pairing your player with accordion, tabs, and button blocks to build a page section that actually holds attention.

Take a look if you're planning audio content for your site.

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6 Best WordPress Audio Player Plugins Compared (2026) - bBlocks We compare 6 WordPress audio player plugins for podcasts, music, and courses, then learn how to turn a plain embed into a page that keeps people around.

Are your Lottie animations hurting your WordPress site speed?

A lot of site owners add beautiful animations to their pages and then watch their PageSpeed scores tank. The frustrating part is that Lottie files are supposed to be lightweight. And they are, when set up correctly.

Here is what usually goes wrong:

Most plugins load the Lottie script on every single page, even pages with zero animations. Files get uploaded straight from After Effects without any cleanup. Animations autoplay above the fold while the page is still trying to load. No lazy loading, so everything fires at once on page load.

The fix is not complicated. Clean your JSON files before uploading. Enable lazy loading. Use scroll-triggered playback where you can. And pick a plugin that only loads scripts when an animation is actually on the page.

We put together a full step-by-step guide covering everything, including how each mistake affects your Core Web Vitals and exactly what to do about it.

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