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Coffee Demo

WP 6.8, PHP 8.3, WooCommerce sample

Theme QA

Twenty Twenty-Five, pretty permalinks

Plugin Repro

Gutenberg nightly, logging enabled

Frequent starts

Route-specific forms live in Start.

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WordPress Version PHP Version Language Network

Include older versions Create a multisite network

Applying these settings resets WordPress to its initial state.

/wordpress

wp-admin

wp-content

wp-includes

wp-config.php

index.php

<?php define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false);
/** Base configuration for WordPress. */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
$table_prefix = 'wp_';
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
  define( 'ABSPATH', __DIR__ . '/' );
}

blueprint.json

landing.html

assets

{
  "$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/",
  "steps": [
    { "step": "runPHPWithOptions", "options": { "code": "<?php /* create page */" } }
  ],
  "preferredVersions": { "php": "8.3", "wp": "latest" },
  "features": {}
}

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

DriverSQLite

Path.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: No such file or directory in /wordpress/wp-includes/view-transitions.php on line 2
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[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" for stylesheet "wp-block-library".
[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-content/themes/twentytwentyfive/style.min.css" for stylesheet "twentytwentyfive-style".

/hello-from-playground/

Live WordPress iframe

Booting Playground

Preparing WordPress, applying route inputs, and mounting the iframe.