Space Lightplay
A standard video embed loads a full player — scripts, iframes, trackers — the moment the page opens, even if nobody presses Play. Space Lightplay shows a crisp poster instead and loads the player only when the visitor wants it. Your pages stay fast, and nothing is sent to YouTube or Vimeo before it
About this tool.
A standard video embed loads a full player — scripts, iframes, trackers — the moment the page opens, even if nobody presses Play. Space Lightplay shows a crisp poster instead and loads the player only when the visitor wants it. Your pages stay fast, and nothing is sent to YouTube or Vimeo before it has to be.
The plugin adds two blocks that work with YouTube (including Shorts), Vimeo (including unlisted videos) and videos from your Media Library .
Space Lightplay — the video block
A poster with a play button that turns into the player on click.
- Open in lightbox — play the video in a full-screen dialog over the page.
- Autoplay when in view — starts muted when the video scrolls into view and pauses when it leaves. Optionally tries to play with sound.
- Start and end time — play just a part of the video. The fields know the video’s length, so values can’t go past its end, and replays keep the same segment.
- End screen — show a call to action, links or the next video when playback ends, built from regular blocks, with an optional Replay button.
- One at a time — starting one video pauses the others on the page.
Space Lightplay Background — the background video block
Like the core Cover block, but it also works with YouTube and Vimeo — Cover only supports self-hosted video.
- Muted, looping, no controls — a clean background behind any blocks you add on top.
- Plays only while in view.
- Optional “poster only” on phones: nothing is loaded on small screens, saving your visitors’ mobile data.
- Overlay colour or gradient with opacity, content alignment, minimum height, padding and text colour — all native editor controls.
Switch freely between blocks
Convert Video ⇄ Background from the block toolbar. Nothing gets lost on the way: settings the other block doesn’t have are kept for converting back, and your content moves with the block. A notice explains what happened and offers Undo.
Core blocks work too: YouTube and Vimeo Embed blocks convert to Space Lightplay and back, and for Media Library videos the Video block ⇄ core Video and the Background block ⇄ core Cover. Settings the core block has no place for (such as the play button design) are not carried over.
