Source: Make WordPress: Playground

wp-env is one of the alternatives to run a WordPress Environment; by default, it uses Docker. What if you could run a full WordPress development environment without installing Docker? With the new experimental Playground runtime for wp-env, you can. One command. Zero Docker. Full WordPress: This launches a complete WordPress environment in seconds using Node.js.…

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Facilitator: @fellyph The Playground team held its weekly meeting on January 23, 2026, in the  #playground SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel. Here’s a summary of the discussion. Announcements PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source…

WordPress Playground no longer supports PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php 7.2 and 7.3. The minimum PHP version is now 7.4. Your existing Blueprints will continue to work. If a Blueprint…

This post summarizes the first Playground team meeting of 2026, held on January 9, 2026, in the  #playground SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel. Announcements UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface – the layout of the page the user interacts with.…

PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php WASM now supports individual packages for each PHP version from 7.4 through 8.5. All old code still works, but if you want to save bandwidth,…

The Playground team listened to your feedback and rolled out three UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface – the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. improvements this month: one-click saving for playground instances, quick access to frequently visited…

The github-proxy.com was created previously to Blueprints, load branches, pull requests, and commits on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the…

This post summarizes the Playground meeting held on December 12, 2025, in the  #playground SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel Announcements WordPress 6.9 was released, and Playground supported testers and developers throughout the release process. At State of the Word 2025 on December…

A lot happened for Playground this year! Let’s review what changed and why it matters for your work: 99+% of WordPress Plugins Supported in Playground Nearly every pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new…