Blueprint-first start

Choose, edit, and run the Blueprint before touching the site.

A single-column workspace for theme authors: gallery discovery, URL starts, current blueprint.json, saved sites, and Site Manager tools stay in one scroll.

Gallery

Blueprint catalog

Art Gallery

Portfolio site with gallery content, theme styling, and sample pages.

WebsitePersonalThemes

Coffee Shop

WooCommerce storefront with demo products, menus, and cart paths.

WooCommerceStoreThemes

Feed Reader with the Friends Plugin

Plugin-enabled feed reader using imported social web subscriptions.

ContentPlugin

Gaming News

News site blueprint with posts, menus, and media-heavy front page.

NewsWebsite

Non-profit Organization

Benefit and donation site assembled from content, pages, and theme setup.

WebsiteContent

Current Blueprint

blueprint.json

{
  "$schema": "https://playground.wordpress.net/blueprint-schema.json",
  "meta": {
    "title": "Theme author demo",
    "description": "Install theme, import content, open the homepage"
  },
  "login": true,
  "landingPage": "/hello-from-playground/",
  "preferredVersions": { "php": "8.3", "wp": "latest" },
  "features": { "networking": true },
  "steps": [
    { "step": "installTheme", "themeZipFile": { "resource": "vfs", "path": "/assets/theme.zip" } },
    { "step": "importWxr", "file": { "resource": "vfs", "path": "/content/demo.xml" } },
    { "step": "setSiteOptions", "options": { "blogname": "Theme Review Playground" } }
  ]
}

Active site

Preview and save state

Preparing WordPress · 68%

● ● ● /hello-from-playground/

My WordPress Website · Edit Site · New · Howdy, admin

Hello from WordPress Playground!

This is Playground, a WordPress that runs client-side in your browser.

Note that you are logged-in as admin!

Save Playground

Playground name

Saving 3028 / 3751 files81%

Saved Playgrounds and start sources Browser storage, rename/delete, PRs, GitHub, zip import

Unsaved PlaygroundNot saved to browser storage

Research Browser PlaygroundCreated May 21, 2026

Preview a WordPress PR

Preview Gutenberg PR or branch

Import from GitHub

Connect a GitHub account to import public plugins, themes, or wp-content directories. The token is not stored.

Import .zip

Opens the browser file chooser for a Playground export or bundle.

Site Manager Settings, file browser, database, logs, export

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

Unsaved changes reset the current Playground.

<?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( 'DB_COLLATE', '' );

Database management is an early access feature

Database driver: MySQL emulation backed by SQLite
SQLite database path: /wordpress/wp-content/database/.ht.sqlite
Size: 452 KB

Playground

No problems so far.

WordPress

No PHP notices or warnings.

PHP

error_log is empty.

Export to GitHub

Send the current Playground files to a connected GitHub account.

Download Playground

Download the current site, database, Blueprint, and files as a zip.