bgrgicak
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1 week ago Having access to the Playground documentation and some other useful links directly sounds like a great way to discover features. Imagine if we had a What's New section that lists features and examples.
Initially, I was worried that this would be a case where we would modify how WordPress works out of the box. But, if we do this as a custom theme and make it the default theme and store the content in the theme instead of the database, users can still switch to any other theme like Twenty Twenty-Four and get the default WordPress experience without our content.
This also got me thinking about the Add Site form. What if that form had a theme selector? The selector could offer the Playground theme, and default WordPress themes out of the box.
If you select a theme, your selection could be stored and used automatically in the future. If this behavior isn't obvious we could offer the user to save the Add Site settings as default, similarly to how you can check that a new credit card should be used as the default in the future.
We could even store all themes the user used to load Playground and add them to the list, so if for example you test with Storefront a lot, it would appear in that dropdown and you could use it as the default. The same concept could work with plugins, except that it would need to be a multi-select.
adamziel
Right now, if you go to playground.wordpress.net you can experience a fresh WordPress. This is a great tech demo, but you need someone to explain it to you. We also have https://wordpress.org/playground to explain it. Then there are developer docs at https://wordpress.github.io/wordpress-playground/developers/
What if we combined this all on playground.wordpress.net by loading a WordPress with all of that content? Some sample screenshots:
It would be great if updating the website could be done by modifying the site and then creating a PR to submit that modification. This could encourage documentation contributions (since it's so easy to edit that you just use WordPress inside Playground) and showcase that you can issue PRs directly from Playground.
The embedded WordPress would include:
It should be possible to link sub-pages on playground.wordpress.net. Say you dig down into the docs, you should be able to share the link and they should then arrive on that subpage (i.e. expose the current URL inside playground using a hash in the playground.wordpress.net URL).