November 09, 2023  SEONews
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From 5-Minute Install To Instant Spin-Up — Smashing Magazine


WordPress Playground began as an experiment to see what a self-hosted WordPress experience might look like without the requirement of having to actually install WordPress. A year later, the experiment has evolved into a full-fledged project that not only abstracts installation but opens up WordPress to a slew of new opportunities. Ganesh Dahal demonstrates how WordPress Playground works and gets deep into how it might be used.

Many things have changed in WordPress over the years, but installation has largely remained the same: download WordPress, drop it on a server, create a database, sprinkle in some configuration, and presto, we have a WordPress site. This process was once lovingly referred to as the “famous five-minute install,” although that moniker seems to have faded with time, particularly as many hosting providers offer a more streamlined experience.

But what if WordPress didn’t require any setup at all? As in, you tap a link, and WordPress spins up a site for you right there, on demand? That’s probably difficult to imagine, considering WordPress runs on top of PHP, MySQL databases, and Apache. It’s not the most portable system.

That’s the aim of WordPress Playground, which got its first public boost when Matt Mullenweg introduced it during State of Word 2022.

In that clip, Matt describes WordPress Playground as a “virtual machine,” and it’s an apt description because all of the standard requirements for running WordPress — PHP, web server, database, and so on...



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