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, sync with production sites, 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.
Sync with WordPress.com
Synchronize a hosted production or staging WordPress.com site with your Studio site in either direction.
Preview sites
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.
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Get more done faster with the Studio Assistant
Meet Studio Assistant, an AI helper ready to manage plugins, draft content, and even run WP-CLI commands for you—all from a user-friendly chat interface. The Assistant will suggest tailor-made recommendations for your site setup, walk you through the thinking behind them, and make them happen as soon as you give it the thumbs-up.
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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 preview 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 preview sites work?
After connecting Studio to your WordPress.com account, you can create hosted clones of your local sites. These clones, or “preview 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 preview site adds further flexibility and potential for refining your project based on feedback. Your preview 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 ten free preview sites associated with your account at any given time. Rest assured, we don’t include deleted or expired preview sites in the count!
How can I contribute to Studio?
Studio is a free and open source app, and our mission is for Studio to be the fastest and simplest way for developers to build a WordPress site. We welcome all contributions in pursuit of this mission. Think fewer buttons, not more.
Feel free to open a GitHub issue to discuss your proposed improvement. Pull requests are welcome for bug fixes and enhancements. New features will need to go through our internal vetting process before they are accepted.
To learn more about how to contribute, please read the Contributing Guidelines.
For information on setting up your development environment for contributing code, see the Code Contributions.
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