Links and Resources
tip
There's a set of redirections in place to make it easier the access to some of the tools related to Playground:
- https://playground.wordpress.net/ → Playground instance
- https://playground.wordpress.net/docs → Playground Docs
- https://playground.wordpress.net/builder → Playground Blueprints Builder
- https://playground.wordpress.net/wordpress → Playground PR viewer for WordPress
- https://playground.wordpress.net/gutenberg → Playground PR viewer for Gutenberg
- https://playground.wordpress.net/proxy → Playground Proxy Service (see URLReference for more info)
Frequently sought links
Apps built with WordPress Playground
- Official demo and the showcase app – install a theme, try out a plugin, create a few pages, export what you've built
- @wp-playground/cli – a CLI tool for instant WordPress dev enviroment
- WordPress Playground for VS Code
- Live Translations: App, announcement, more details
- Interactive code block which powers the HTML Tag Processor tutorial and the Playground JS API tutorial
- Gutenberg Pull Request previewer
- Notifications plugin live demo
- GraphQL REPL
- Blocknotes – the first ever iOS app running WordPress on your phone
- Playground embedder to embed Playground examples in WordPress.org documentation using shortcodes
- Plugin demos on wp.org – a user script that adds a "demo" tab to plugin pages on WordPress.org
- WordPress Pull Request previewer
- Synchronization between two Playgrounds
- Time Travel
- WP-CLI
- PHP implementation of Blueprints
Reading materials
- Build in-browser WordPress experiences with WordPress Playground and WebAssembly
- WordPress Playground on developer.wordpress.org
- In-Browser WordPress Tech Demos: WordPress Development with WordPress Playground
- Initial announcement on make.wordpress.org
- Hackernews discussion
Videos
- Developer Hours Videos:
- Americas Region (May 23,2023)
- APAC/EMEA Region (May 24,2023)
- Creating WordPress Playground Blueprints for Testing and Demos (May 28, 2024) by Birgit Pauli-Haack & Nick Diego
- Developer Hours: Everything you need to know about WordPress Playground (Dec 17, 2024) by Nick Diego & Ryan Welcher
- Playground at State of the Word
- Playground at WCEU 2023
- Watch "WordPress Playground: the ultimate learning, testing, & teaching tool for WordPress" by Anne McCarthy
- WordPress Playground for developers by Berislav Grgicak and Jonathan Bossenger
- WordPress Playground Block code editor theme support by Jonathan Bossenger
- WordPress Playground – use WordPress without a server at WCEU 2024 by Adam Zielinski
- Code, Test, Repeat: Accelerating Development with WordPress Playground at WordCamp Larissa 2024 by Uros Tasic
- Liberating data with WordPress Playground in a Browser Extension at WordCamp Netherlands 2024 by Alex Kirk
- Beyond the Playground: WordPress as a Tool and Product Builder at WCUS 2024 by Dennis Snell
- Create a demo with Playground at WC Asia 2025 by Birgit Pauli-Haack
- Disssecting WordPress Playground at WordCamp Nepal 2025 by Sakar Upadhyaya Khatiwada
- Building Automated Test with WordPress Playground at WCEU 2025by Berislav Grgicak
- From Zero to Demo: Mastering WordPress Playground Blueprints at WCEU 2025 by Birgit Pauli-Haack
- Playground at WordCamp Gliwice (in Polish) by Adam Zielinski
- WordPress Playground at WordCamp Wrocław 2024 (in Polish) by Adam Zielinski
- WordPress Playground at WordCamp Gdynia 2025 (in Polish) by Magdalena Paciorek
- Discovering Playground, the demo tool(in Spanish) by Alex Cuadra
- WordPress Playground: Complete and functional WordPress installation(in Spanish) by Fernando García Rebolledo
- Playground: A throwaway WordPress within your browser at WordCamp Madrid 2025(in Spanish) by Álvaro Gómez Velasco
- Use WordPress with just a browser! WordPress Playground Tutorial: Basic usage of Playground (in Japanese) by Shimomura Tomoki
- WordPress Playground: How to use Blueprints by Shimomura Tomoki