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One door, three rooms

Launch, resume, inspect, reset, export. The widget is the only persistent door.

Route-specific inputs stay in the Sites widget, so starting, importing, and blueprint discovery never split into separate launchers.

Plain session

Vanilla WordPress

Core patch

WordPress PR

Editor branch

Gutenberg PR or branch

Theme or plugin

From GitHub

Remote JSON

Blueprint URL

Existing work

Import .zip

Drop exported playground zip or browse files

Featured blueprints

Unsaved Playground is not saved to browser storage. Save before refresh to keep this exact site.

Unsaved Playground

Active now, not saved to browser storage

Coffee shop checkout test

WP 6.8 / PHP 8.3 / saved yesterday

Museum theme lab

Blueprint bundle / 4 files edited

Core PR reproduction

wordpress-develop PR #8123

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

WordPress Version

PHP Version

Language

Include older versions Allow network access Create a multisite network

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

/wordpress

wp-admin

wp-content

wp-includes

index.php

wp-config.php

readme.html

1<?php define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false);2/** Base configuration for WordPress. */3define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');4define('DB_USER', 'username_here');5define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');6$table_prefix = 'wp_';

blueprint.json

assets

welcome.php

1{2  "$schema": "https://playground.wordpress.net/blueprint-schema.json",3  "meta": { "title": "Playground Welcome Landing Page" },4  "login": true,5  "landingPage": "/hello-from-playground/",6  "steps": [7    { "step": "runPHPWithOptions", "options": { "code": "<?php /* welcome */" } }8  ]9}

Database management is an early access feature. WordPress Playground emulates MySQL using SQLite.

SQLitedriver

452 KBsize

36tables

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

[21-May-2026 10:18:21 UTC] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(/wordpress/wp-admin/css/view-transitions.min.css): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory 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 the "path" key with value "/wordpress/wp-includes/css/dist/block-library/common.min.css".

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

Export has one home in this design. It is not duplicated in a top kebab or a separate Site Manager action menu.

Export to GitHub as PR

Export a WordPress theme, plugin, or wp-content directory to a GitHub repository as a pull request.

Download current playground

Package the active Playground as a .zip file for import later from the Sites widget.

W My WordPress Website Edit Site 0 + New Edit Page Howdy, admin

Hello from WordPress Playground!

This is Playground, a WordPress that runs client-side in your browser. It is perfect for training, demonstrating plugins and themes, and for testing purposes.

Note that you are logged-in as admin! Thus, you can modify this site as you like: edit content, install plugins and play around.

To start over, simply reload the page!

Discover the mission behind Playground

Smart resize is visible. Click the site to give it more room. Open the widget again for the Sites, Manager, and Export map.

Booting Playground

Applying route settings, mounting WordPress, and restoring the selected blueprint.

Destructive reset

Apply settings and reset this Playground?

This wipes the current WordPress site and reboots it with the selected WordPress, PHP, language, network, and multisite settings.

Type RESET to confirm