Fellyph Cintra 4:24 pm on October 24, 2025  

WordPress Playground Meeting Summary: October 24, 2025

Location: #playground Slack Channel

The Playground team held their weekly meeting on October 24, 2025. Here’s a summary of what was discussed.

Announcements

The team highlighted two important posts:

The project merged 30 pull requests covering documentation, translation, the Playground web instance, 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. WASM, CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress., SQLite, and Blueprints.

Recent Updates by Area

  • Translations: 10 pull requests added new pages in Japanese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Props to @shimomura tomoki, @Béryl, @amieiro, and @nilovelez.
  • Documentation: Deprecated references were removed, and new talks were added to resource pages. Thanks to @Yannick for reviews.
  • Web Instance: Several improvements shipped thanks to @zieladam and @bpayton:
    • Ability to define names for saved playgrounds
    • Improved deployment for self-hosted Playground
    • SidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. icon moved to the right side with more meaningful iconography
  • CLI: Enhanced debug output – the --verbosity=debug flag now prints temporary directories and mount points for better troubleshooting.
  • PHP-WASM: Documentation added explaining the rationale for php.ini values in wordpress/src/boot.ts.

Contributor Updates

  • @janjakes is focused on SQLite improvements:
    • Increasing MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. compatibility (CHECK constraints, dynamic DB_NAME, column info, INSERT INTO…SET syntax, INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables)
    • Adding support for MySQL admin tools like phpMyAdmin and Adminer
  • @fellyph worked on the project overview post, PHP-WASM documentation examples, Xdebug content, and CLI page updates.
  • @Yannick is implementing step debugging with PHP.wasm and Playground CLI in PHPStorm and VSCode, with support from @bpayton and @zieladam.

Open Floor

The team congratulated @Muryam Sultana on her talk at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Islamabad and encouraged others interested in speaking at meetups or WordCamps to reach out.

For more information, join our #playground Slack Channel, and see you in our next chat.