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We are excited to announce a significant update to the WordPress Playground that completely improves the developer experience: a brand-new Blueprint Editor. While the ability to edit Blueprints has existed previously, this update brings a polished, cohesive interface that combines a powerful code editor directly with the file browser. This new functionality is designed to…

A new experimental Database pane is now live on playground.wordpress.net, featuring: Following the recent additions of the File Browser and the Blueprint Editor, it is now possible to browse and modify the Playground SQLite database even with tools designed to be used with MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a…

The Playground team held its weekly meeting on November 28, 2025. Here’s a summary of the announcements, contributor updates, and discussions. Facilitator: @fellyph Announcements Xdebug support is now available Debugging 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…

Facilitator: @fellyph Announcements The Playground team shipped several notable features recently: New capabilities: Documentation updates: Translations: New pages in Japanese, Bengali, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Gujarati, and Luganda—including first pages in Italian and Luganda. Community: 46 contributors now hold the Playground badge. Learn how to claim yours. Contributor updates Open floor Props: @fellyph, @akirk, @bph, @Yannickdecat,…

WordPress Playground now loads GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ development branches directly in your browser. Test the latest trunk…

Have you ever faced a moment where your application won’t run, and you need to understand the steps that led to the failure? Xdebug is the perfect tool for this, but debugging a PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web…

The WordPress Playground CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. version 3.0.20 is live! This update introduces powerful new 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…

The CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team will release WordPress 6.9 in early December. Before that happens, the project is in the testing phase, and the Core Team needs you! The #core-test team is currently focused on testing the latest Release Candidate (RC)…

WordPress Playground now includes a File Browser that brings your entire development workflow into the browser. Create, edit, and test files directly from your browser, no more zipping and uploading. Additionally, UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface – the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’…

Location: #playground Slack Channel The Playground team held their weekly meeting on October 24, 2025. Here’s a summary of what was discussed. Announcements The team highlighted two important posts: The project merged 30 pull requests covering documentation, translation, the Playground web instance, PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose…