May 28, 2024 — WordPress Playground offers a powerful way to experiment with WordPress environments instantaneously. In this session, we dove into the world of WordPress Playground blueprints, exploring how they can be used to create dynamic, disposable WordPress instances.

We started with a brief overview of WordPress Playground, ensuring you have a solid understanding of its capabilities. Then, we looked at the details of blueprint creation and usage, providing hands-on examples and practical tips. When watching the recording, you will learn how to:

– Set up your first Playground environment.
– Create custom blueprints that include specific plugins, themes, and content.
– Use blueprints for testing, which includes enabling experimental features in Gutenberg.
– Use WP-CLI commands with Playground to add posts and attachments.
– Leverage blueprints for teaching and demonstrations.
– And much more!

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November 21, 2023 — WordPress is known for its famous 5-minute install. We’ll explore the WordPress Playground and how you can use it to spin up sites in less than 5 seconds!

What is WordPress Playground? WordPress Playground makes WordPress instantly accessible for users, learners, extenders, and contributors.

Topics we’ll explore:
– Understanding Web Assembly, the technology behind Playground
– How to use the Playground to test themes, plugins, and PHP versions quickly
– How to save Playground configurations so other people can use them easily
– Using the VS Code integration for a local version of the Playground

October 15, 2023 — WordPress Playground is an innovative tool that lets you run WordPress directly in your web browser, within Visual Studio Code, or as a standalone local environment. This innovative solution changes the game for WordPress development, testing, learning, and showcasing.

Learn how to leverage the unique capabilities of WordPress Playground by running some examples:

– Showcase your plugin or theme on your homepage with admin access on the frontend without registration and without the possibility of getting hacked.

– Build an entire website and preview it in Visual Studio Code.

– Run WordPress with NodeJS and use it as a local environment.

– Test your code on different WordPress and PHP versions.

– New applications built on top of WordPress Playground.

May 24, 2023 — In this presentation Adam Zielinski, a member of the development team that created WordPress Playground, introduces this exciting new implementation and also demonstrates it. He explains the technologies that make the magic happen, and runs through a variety of scenarios and use cases.