Title: Playground Team Meeting: July 25,2025
Author: Fellyph Cintra
Published: August 5, 2025

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fellyph/) [Fellyph Cintra](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fellyph/)
3:10 pm _on_ August 5, 2025     
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# Playground Team Meeting: July 25,2025

Location: [#playground Slack Channel](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C04EWKGDJ0K)

The bi-weekly WordPress Playground team meeting on July 25, 2025, focused on recent
developments and project updates. A significant number of new features and improvements
were announced. The meeting was held on the [#playground](https://make.wordpress.org/playground/tag/playground/)
channel at wordpress.slack.com. Several improvements were implemented on the WordPress
Playground Project.

### Key Highlights

 * **[Performance Improvements](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/pull/2400):**
   OPCache is now enabled by default. This is a significant change that will significantly
   improve performance.
 * **Xdebug Support:** A lot of work has been done to improve Xdebug support, including
   a new `—experimental-devtools` option in the Playground CLICLI Command Line Interface.
   Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. and
   a mock `@php-wasm/xdebug-bridge` package. [#2411](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/pull/2411),
   [#2408](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/pull/2408) and [#2402](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/pull/2402).
 * **[Blueprint v2](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/pull/2394):**
   The team is getting Blueprint v2 ready, with a focus on improving error messages
   and handling relative paths and Blueprints v2 support was added to Playground
   CLI via the `--experimental-blueprints-v2-runner` flag.
 * **CLI Enhancements:** New flags have been added to the Playground CLI, along 
   with better error reporting.
 * **[PHP 8.3](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/pull/2371):** 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](https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php)
   8.3 is now the default version for playground.wordpress.net and Playground CLI.
 * **Localization:** Translations have been added for Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese.
 * **Contributor Badge:** The team is discussing criteria for earning a contributor
   badge.

### Recent Contributions

 * **bpayton** has been working on fixes for mounted symlinks in the CLI, multi-
   worker performance testing, and other small fixes.
 * **zaerl** will be working on a pull request to address issue [#2124](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2124).
 * **Fellyph Cintra** is developing a new landing page for the web instance, documenting
   new features, and addressing PWA configuration issues.

For more information, join our [#playground Slack Channel](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C04EWKGDJ0K),
and see you in our next chat, which is scheduled for August 8th.

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