July 24, 2026 — Let’s explore WordPress Playground, see how the WordPress community uses it today, and where it will take WordPress in the future. WordPress Playground allows us to start a new WordPress site in one click. Each site can be customized with a Blueprint to work and look exactly how you want it. Today, Playground allows WordPress to run in the browser and Node.js. WordPress will even keep working while you are offline. In the future, we want to enable the community to run WordPress on even more platforms like mobile apps and form distributed networks.

June 7, 2025 — The goal of this workshop is to show how easy it is to start testing WordPress projects and enable participants to implement tests in their own projects.
In the workshop we will write integration and end-to-end tests for a typical WordPress plugin.

We will run tests using WordPress Playground, so they can run inside the WordPress context, each test can run on a differently configured site, and we can test the project using both PHP and HTTP requests.

To start we will fork a plugin from GitHub and learn how to run it locally using the Playground CLI. After that, we will implement integration and end-to-end tests for our plugin using Playground.

Once we have all tests working we will add a GitHub action to run these tests on every commit in GitHub.

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December 16, 2024 — WordPress Playground is a platform that lets you run WordPress instantly on any device without a web host. Anyone can use it to build, experiment, and test anything related to WordPress.

In this online workshop, core WordPress Playground developer Berislav Grgicak joins developer educator Jonathan Bossenger to share insights into how developers can leverage WordPress Playground.

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