V3 Design 010 - WordPress Playground Quiet Console

Launch Playground

Start fresh, resume saved work, import a zip, or browse the blueprint gallery.

Start a new Playground

Vanilla WordPress

Boot the latest stable WordPress with the default theme.

WordPress PR

Run a WordPress core pull request by number or URL.

Gutenberg PR or branch

Try a Gutenberg pull request, release branch, or experiment build.

From GitHub

Load a theme or plugin from a repository.

Blueprint URL

Paste any blueprint JSON URL and boot it directly.

Import .zip

Restore a previously exported Playground archive.

Choose playground-export.zip or drop it here

Start from a Blueprint

Art Gallery

Vueo theme gallery.

WebsitePersonal

Coffee Shop

WooCommerce storefront.

WooCommerce

Feed Reader

Friends plugin demo.

rss

Gaming News

Spiel theme news site.

News

Non-profit

Koinonia theme site.

Website

Showing all 43 blueprints

Art Gallery

An art gallery created with the Vueo theme.

WebsitePersonal

Coffee Shop

A stylish WooCommerce coffee shop storefront.

WooCommerceStore

Feed Reader with the Friends Plugin

Read feeds in Playground via Friends.

rsssocial web

Gaming News

A gaming news site created with Spiel.

WebsiteNews

Non-profit Organization

A non-profit site created with Koinonia.

Organization

Personal Blog

A personal blog with the Substrata theme.

Blog

Personal Resume

A resume site with the Readymade theme.

Personal

Photography Portfolio

A portfolio created with the Grammer theme.

Photography

Skincare Blog

A skincare blog created with Piel.

NewsBlog

University Website

A university website created with Kentwood.

Education

Create Block Theme

Install Create Block Theme and edit right away.

Editor

WordPress Beta

Test the latest WordPress Beta or RC.

Testing

Your Playgrounds

Unsaved Playground

Not saved to browser storage. Changes are lost on refresh.

Coffee Shop Demo

Saved locally. WordPress 6.8, PHP 8.3.

Gutenberg PR 64218

Saved locally. Branch test with logs.

Theme Tester

Saved locally. Twenty Twenty-Five variants.

Unsaved Playground

Site Manager. Changes here affect the active iframe.

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

WordPress Version Include older versions PHP Version Language Allow network access Create a multisite network

Apply & Reset is destructive. It reboots PHP and wipes the current WordPress database, uploads, and theme edits unless you save first.

/wordpress

wp-admin

wp-content

themes/twentytwentyfive

wp-includes

wp-config.php

index.php

readme.html

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

/* Playground keeps this file editable for debugging. */
if ( ! defined( "ABSPATH" ) ) {
    define( "ABSPATH", __DIR__ . "/" );
}
require_once ABSPATH . "wp-settings.php";

blueprint.json

assets

plugins

theme.zip

{
  "$schema": "https://playground.wordpress.net/blueprint-schema.json",
  "meta": {
    "title": "Playground Welcome Landing Page",
    "description": "Landing page for WordPress Playground"
  },
  "login": true,
  "landingPage": "/hello-from-playground/",
  "preferredVersions": {
    "php": "8.3",
    "wp": "latest"
  },
  "steps": [
    { "step": "runPHP", "code": "<?php update_option( \"blogname\", \"My WordPress Website\" );" }
  ]
}

Database management is an early access feature.
WordPress Playground emulates MySQL using SQLite. Report issues on the GitHub issue tracker.

Database driver

MySQL emulation backed by SQLite

SQLite database path

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

Table	Rows	Size
wp_posts	12	96 KB
wp_options	184	220 KB
wp_users	1	12 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 in /wordpress/wp-includes/view-transitions.php on line 2

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

[21-May-2026 10:18:20 UTC] Playground: blueprint step runPHP completed in 119ms

[21-May-2026 10:18:19 UTC] Playground: mounted OPFS filesystem for Unsaved Playground

Quiet event history

Visual controls stay primary. This trail explains consequences after each action.

10:18 UTC

WordPress iframe loaded at /hello-from-playground/.navigate /hello-from-playground/

10:17 UTC

Unsaved session created. Save writes the current filesystem to browser storage.storage: OPFS pending

10:16 UTC

Blueprint completed and logged into Site Manager Logs.blueprint: Playground Welcome Landing Page

Booting Playground

Running selected route and preparing the iframe.

Done - Download WordPress core

Done - Mount SQLite database

Now - Apply blueprint steps

Next - Navigate iframe to landing page

Saved to browser storage. This Playground now appears in Your Playgrounds.

Start from a Blueprint

Showing all 43 blueprints

Your Playgrounds

Quiet event history

Playground settings

Apply settings and reset Playground?

Booting Playground