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Fellyph Cintra 3:10 pm on August 5, 2025
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Playground Team Meeting: July 25,2025

Location: #playground Slack Channel

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 channel at wordpress.slack.com. Several improvements were implemented on the WordPress Playground Project.

Key Highlights

  • Performance Improvements: 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, #2408 and #2402.
  • Blueprint v2: 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: 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/preface.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.
  • 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, and see you in our next chat, which is scheduled for August 8th.

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Bero 11:04 am on December 16, 2024
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Playground Team Meeting Summary – December 13, 2024

The Playground team met to discuss recent updates, ongoing projects, and community questions. (Slack script) facilitated by @berislavgrgicak

Announcements

Contributor Updates

Open Floor

Thank you to all contributors for your participation! Stay tuned for updates in 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/. and on the Make WordPress blog.

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Props to @zieladam for reviewing.

Birgit Pauli-Haack 3:44 pm on November 22, 2024
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Playground Team Meeting Summary – November 22, 2024

The Playground team met to discuss recent updates, ongoing projects, and community questions. (Slack script) facilitated by Birgit Pauli-Haack

Announcements

  • New Features:
    • Playground’s WordPress PR and 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/ PR tester can now be accessed via the three-dot menu, with a modal for PR number input. @ajotka and @bpayton
    • A blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.-based Blueprints Editor, created by @ajitbohra, enables building Blueprints visually without JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML..
  • Upcoming Hallway Hangouts:

Contributor Updates

  • Blueprints Development:
  • Database Support:
  • Playground Compatibility Tester Enhancements:
    • It now tests all WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ themes and plugins for compatibility with Playground. Next step for @berislavgrgicak integrating a runner for continuous updates.
  • Data Liberation Efforts:
    • More PRs were merged and can be followed along on the tracking issue. Improvements to the next-gen importer include streaming data from WXR files, parsing markdown, downloading assets, resuming interrupted imports, and rewriting URLs. Upcoming work includes progress updates and handling complex WXR inputs.

Open Floor

  • CORS Proxy Update:
    • A new CORS proxy has been deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. on the Playground domain, with plans to move it to a dedicated domain.
    • Contributors discussed the impact of the proxy move and the need to update documentation once the domain stabilizes.

Thank you to all contributors for your participation! Stay tuned for updates in Slack and on the Make WordPress blog.

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