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 eliminates the need to install additional tools. This innovative solution changes the game for WordPress development, testing, learning, and showcasing.
During this talk, we will 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.
Finally, we will investigate the underlying technologies of WordPress Playground, explaining how it uses WebAssembly to run WordPress and blurring the lines between the backend and frontend. By understanding this transformative technology, you will discover new opportunities to enhance your development workflow, making WordPress Playground an indispensable tool in your development arsenal.