Introducing Pootle Playground — My Experimental WordPress Blueprint Builder

If you’ve ever had to spin up a fresh WordPress site for a client demo, a plugin test, or a tutorial, you know the grind.
Install WordPress. Add plugins. Create pages. Set the homepage. Tweak settings. Repeat.

WordPress Playground made that faster with instant WordPress in your browser, but building custom environments still meant hand-writing JSON blueprints.

So I built Pootle Playground, a visual, experimental blueprint builder for WordPress Playground.
No code. No config files. Just build, launch, and share.

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Build a Full WordPress Site Visually

With Pootle Playground, you can build a fully configured WordPress site right in your browser.

You can:

• Add pages and write Gutenberg content
• Set the homepage and posts page
• Choose page templates
• Add featured images to posts
• Create and assign navigation menus
• Install themes and plugins from WordPress.org
• Set a landing page URL so blueprints open to any page or admin screen, perfect for teaching or plugin demos

In seconds, you’ve got a ready-to-launch site with no local setup or zip files.

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Save, Share, Remix

Every blueprint you create can be:

• Saved to your collection
• Shared with the community
• Remixed and relaunched by others

There’s even upvoting, so the most useful blueprints bubble up.
It’s already starting to feel like a mini creative ecosystem for WordPress Playground.

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Under the Hood: Smart Conversion

Behind the scenes, Pootle Playground automatically translates your visual setup into the format WordPress Playground understands.
It keeps track of relationships between steps, like which page is the homepage or which menu links to which page, and then converts all of that into standard Playground commands.

So you get all the power and compatibility of WordPress Playground with a far more intuitive, visual editing experience.

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Try It

If you build, teach, or test with WordPress, give it a spin.
Create something. Break something. Share it.

👉 Try Pootle Playground

It’s early, it’s experimental, and it’s already pretty fun.