WordPress Playground roadmap

This issue exists to communicate the long-term roadmap of the WordPress Playground project and keep it open for comments and discussions. Your feedback and contributions are crucial to help shape the direction.

The roadmap will continue to evolve and is meant to make a direct connection between specific issues and Pull Requests to the larger direction presented in the Playground vision. This is why everyone's work on Playground matters. Feel free to use it as a resource to find guidance and highly impactful work.

This roadmap provides a high-level overview of important areas in Playground. Specific next tasks are being considered on the project board.

Areas

• Tracking: Solid Platform #1555
• Tracking: Great User and Developer experience #1554
• Tracking: WordPress-powered Apps #1558
• Tracking: Communication #1564
• Sync Protocol #797

WordPress onboarding

• WordPress Playground Block playground-tools#94

WordPress Contribution tools

Let's amplify the contributions to WordPress with streamlined, zero-setup workflows.

• Blueprints community space (issue TBD)
• Theme contribution workflow #794
• Documentation contribution workflow #795
• Translations contribution workflow #758
• Import WordPress ➔ Playground #799
• Offline mode (PWA) #133
• Blueprints Recorder #539

WordPress Reliability

Let's stay on top of performance and reliability benchmarks.

• Fully functional plugin previews on wp.org #662
• Plugin previews in wp-admin #798
• Post a Playground preview link on every PR wordpress-develop#5526

Playground reliability

Let's stay on top of performance and reliability benchmarks.

• WordPress feature parity #764
• PHP feature parity #763
• SQLite feature parity #762
• Reliable webapp #767
• Support popular PHP libraries and tools #766
• Measure performance on a dated hardware #774

Distributed WordPress

Let's position WordPress as the decentralized engine of the web, whether we're speaking about websites, mobile apps, or even a synchronized storage backend for regular desktop apps.

• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60375
• Sync Protocol #797
• Run on Cloudflare Workers #69
• Mobile apps devtools #796
• Static site generator #707

Playground adoption and community growth

Let's grow the Playground ecosystem and foster the community to catalyze a new generation of innovative WordPress tooling.

• Communicate new features #768
• VScode.dev plugin playground-tools#8
• Fix theme demo blueprints#39
• Language switcher #199
• Playground Documentation overhaul #772
• Simple PHP class structure #514
• Slack meeting on #meta-playground #526
• Release cadence #777