V3 Design 004 - First-touch Settings

Booting Playground72%

Done: downloaded WordPress core

Done: mounted SQLite database

Now: applying blueprint steps

Next: opening the live preview

Live Preview

Live Preview stays the default home. Use the full-size control when you want to interact with WordPress without the manager chrome.

Unsaved Playground. Changes are still only in this browser session.

Current session

Address/hello-from-playground/

RuntimeWordPress 7.0, PHP 8.3, English (United States)

StorageNot saved to browser storage

Start routes reveal the input they need instead of hiding form steps behind generic tiles.

Input

Featured blueprints

Browse the full blueprint library with the current category set and searchable titles, descriptions, and tags.

Unsaved Playground
Not saved to browser storage. Changes will be lost on refresh.

This is an Unsaved Playground. Your changes will be lost on page refresh.

Runtime

WordPress VersionChanging version requires a reset.

Include older versions Include older releases

PHP VersionChanging PHP reboots the runtime.

Language

Network

Allow network access Enabled

Create a multisite network Disabled

Destructive action. Applying these settings resets the WordPress site to its initial state.

/wordpress

wp-admin

wp-content

themes/twentytwentyfive

wp-includes

index.php

wp-config.php

wp-load.php

/wordpress/wp-config.php

<?php
define( 'DB_NAME', 'database_name_here' );
define( 'DB_USER', 'username_here' );
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here' );
define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );
define( 'DB_CHARSET', 'utf8mb4' );

define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );

require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php';

blueprint.json

assets/welcome.html

plugins/demo.php

/blueprint.json

{
  "$schema": "https://playground.wordpress.net/blueprint-schema.json",
  "meta": {
    "title": "Playground Welcome Landing Page",
    "description": "Landing page for the WordPress Playground",
    "categories": [ "meta" ]
  },
  "login": true,
  "landingPage": "/hello-from-playground/",
  "steps": [
    {
      "step": "runPHPWithOptions",
      "options": {
        "code": "<?php /* create welcome page */"
      }
    }
  ],
  "preferredVersions": {
    "php": "8.3",
    "wp": "latest"
  }
}

Database management is an early access feature. WordPress Playground emulates MySQL using SQLite. Help shape it by reporting issues on the GitHub issue tracker.

Database driverMySQL emulation backed by SQLite

SQLite database path/wordpress/wp-content/database/.ht.sqlite

Size452 KB

[21-May-2026 10:18:21 UTC] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(/wordpress/wp-admin/css/view-transitions.min.css): Failed to open stream.

[21-May-2026 10:18:20 UTC] PHP Notice: Function wp_maybe_inline_styles was called incorrectly. Unable to read stylesheet path.

[21-May-2026 10:18:20 UTC] PHP Notice: block-library/common.min.css could not be inlined for stylesheet wp-block-library.

[21-May-2026 10:18:19 UTC] PHP Warning: view-transitions.php on line 2.

Additional actions are separated from first-touch controls but remain available from the manager header and this output pane.