Build Fast, Ship Faster with Studio
Meet Studio by WordPress.com—a fast, free way to develop locally with WordPress. Share your local sites with clients or colleagues and keep your local development process smooth and simple—with unbreakable infrastructure behind the scenes.
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A quick, lightweight, and shareable local WordPress development environment. That’s Studio.
Demo sites
Forget Ngrok-like tunnels—share interactive snapshots of your local sites with clients or colleagues, powered by WordPress.com.
Superfast WordPress installation
Regardless of how many sites you’re working on, you can create unlimited local sites in Studio.
Dependency-free building
Build lightweight and reliable local WordPress sites, powered by WordPress Playground, without the hassle of Docker, NGINX, Apache, or MySQL.
One-click admin
Spend less time wrangling passwords—open WP Admin for each site with just one click.
Open your site anywhere
Develop your sites your way. Open your site’s code in your favorite IDE, CLI, or file browser to fit your workflow.
Built by the biggest contributor to WordPress core
With 109 active contributors, we know WordPress inside and out.
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Everything you need to know
Do I need to have a WordPress.com account to use Studio?
A WordPress.com account is required only if you want to leverage the demo sites feature for showcasing your projects and gathering feedback.
How can I export a theme I created in Studio?
Themes created in Studio function in the same manner as themes created in traditional WordPress sites. Themes can be exported by clicking “Export” found within the “Options” menu in the top-right corner of the WordPress site editor. See our documentation for additional details on these steps.
How do demo sites work?
After connecting Studio to your WordPress.com account, you can create hosted clones of your local sites. These clones, or “demo sites,” are powered by WordPress.com and hosted on a temporary domain, simplifying the process of gathering feedback from anyone, anywhere.
The ability to push updates from your local site to your hosted demo site adds further flexibility and potential for refining your project based on feedback. Your demo site remains active for seven days after the last update, and you can update as many times as you’d like, ensuring you have ample time to perfect your project.
You can have up to five free demo sites associated with your account at any given time. Rest assured, we don’t include deleted or expired demo sites in the count!
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