Design 083 - Blueprint Desk

Feed Reader with the Friends Plugin

Demo feeds, subscriptions, and compact social reading in Playground.

rsssocial webfeatured

Art Gallery

Gallery site prepared with the Vueo theme and sample artwork.

websitepersonal

Coffee Shop

WooCommerce storefront with products, cart, checkout, and custom theme.

woocommercestore

Gaming News

Spiel theme news layout with posts, menus, and image-heavy articles.

newstheme

Non-profit Organization

Donation-oriented site with pages, navigation, and benefit copy.

websiteorganization

Personal Blog

Long-form publishing demo with posts, archive navigation, and theme styling.

personalblog

Block Theme Starter

Site Editor-ready starter with theme.json and sample block templates.

gutenbergthemes

Content Playground

Fixture content for testing page, post, media, and menu behavior.

contentfixtures

Theme Preview Lab

Theme comparison setup with style variations and template parts.

themeswebsite

Full captured gallery index 43 entries from the current Blueprint gallery

Art Gallery
Coffee Shop
Feed Reader with the Friends Plugin
Gaming News
Non-profit Organization
Personal Blog
Personal Resume
Photography Portfolio
Skincare Blog
University Website
Create Block Theme
Creating a new user for the blog
Custom Post Type: Books
Demo of Twenty-Twenty-Five theme
Display Admin Notice
Enable all three Dataview Experiments in Gutenberg
Fancy Dashboard Widget
Grid Variations Experiments enabled
Gutenberg Guidelines Experiment enabled
Import Theme Starter Content
Import a standalone starter content via a blueprint step
Install WordPress language packs
Install plugin from a gist
Latest Gutenberg plugin
Loading, activating, and configuring a theme from a GitHub repository
Login as an editor
Markdown and Trac Syntax Editor
Minimal WooCommerce Setup with Sample Products, Shipping, and Payment Method
My WordPress
Playground Welcome Landing Page
Pretty permalinks
Reset data and import content (with logs)
Serve media files from another host
Set the admin color scheme
Showcase plugin
Stylish Press
Theme Tester
Use WPGraphQL to query WordPress
Use wp-cli command to add posts
Use wp-cli to add a post with image
Weather Shortcode Plugin
WooCommerce product feed
WordPress Beta

Selected blueprint

Feed Reader with the Friends Plugin

Runs from the captured gallery. Demo writers can inspect the setup steps before replacing the current temporary site.

Visible flow proof

Select catalog source: Feed Reader blueprint
Run replaces the current unsaved site after confirmation
Save destination: browser storage or local directory
Result: named saved Playground with rename and delete actions

blueprint.json editable

{
  "$schema": "https://playground.wordpress.net/blueprint-schema.json",
  "landingPage": "/hello-from-playground/",
  "preferredVersions": { "php": "8.3", "wp": "latest" },
  "steps": [
    { "step": "login" },
    { "step": "installPlugin", "pluginData": "friends.zip" },
    { "step": "runPHP", "code": "wp_insert_post(...)" }
  ]
}

Vanilla WordPress

No input required. Starts a clean logged-in WordPress site.

WordPress PR

Preview a core pull request by number or GitHub URL.

PR number or URL

Gutenberg PR or Branch

Accepts a Gutenberg PR number, URL, or branch name.

PR, URL, or branch

Import from GitHub

Imports public plugins, themes, or wp-content directories after account connection. Token is not stored.

Repository path

Blueprint URL

Runs a public blueprint JSON URL and applies its steps to a new Playground.

Blueprint URL

Import .zip

Opens a file picker. Importing a Playground zip replaces the current site contents.

Selected file

Applying settings resets an unsaved Playground. Stored Playgrounds use Save & Reload with limited options.

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

/wordpress
wp-admin
wp-content
wp-includes
index.php
wp-config.php
wp-settings.php

/wordpress/wp-config.phpeditable

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

/blueprint.jsoncurrent bundle

{
  "meta": {
    "title": "Documentation demo",
    "description": "Reusable setup for a Playground article"
  },
  "login": true,
  "steps": [
    { "step": "installPlugin", "pluginData": "friends.zip" },
    { "step": "setSiteOptions", "options": { "blogname": "Research Browser" } }
  ]
}

Database management is an early access feature

WordPress Playground emulates MySQL using SQLite.

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

Playground logs

No problems so far.

WordPress logs

No PHP notices captured.

PHP logs

No fatal errors captured.

Playground name

Saving 3028 / 3751 files Browser storage destination selected

Result: Saved Playground, created May 21, 2026, available from Saved Playgrounds.

Unsaved Playground

Not saved to browser storage

Research Browser Playground

Saved in browser storage - created May 21, 2026

Deleting a saved Playground removes the browser-backed copy. Importing a .zip replaces the current Playground state.

Showing captured gallery examples and dense category coverage

Every launch route has its own required input and consequence.

Choose a storage destination before the browser is closed.