Testing WordPress Playground

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Note: This post of understanding newly added WordPress Site Editor features including using blocks. This learning post is still in active development and updated regularly.

WordPress playground, a novel browser-based sandbox-like tool for creating temporary site instances, for testing themes, plugins. This feature also allows to create a site, modify it, saving and exporting as a new theme.

The WordPress documentation list the following feature of the tool:

How it works?

The WordPress Playground tools can be lunched from playground.wordpress.net. From the link, a real WordPress instance with admin access can be created without having to install PHP, MySQL, or Apache. The program runs inside the browser using a SQLite database.

I took the feature for the test, which generated a WordPress instance on my Chrome browser in less than 10 seconds.

A WordPress instance created with WordPress Playground.

This learn WordPress video tutorial How to start using WordPress Playground demonstrates how this feature works, together with how to add plugins, new themes and customize a site. The tutorial also covers how to export a theme, download an entire website and upload into a new WordPress site.

The feature can be set up a local WordPress development environment using the VisualStudio Code plugin or a CLI tool called wp-now.

What is Next?

I am still experimenting with this feature, and I will have a more in-depth post later about how to use this delightful tool.

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