'It’s a WordPress that stays with you': WordPress can now run within your browser, letting you build private websites not on the public web

• WordPress Playground lets you build fully local, non-published websites
• Sites are limited to 100MB and are stored locally, per-device
• You can still use WordPress plugins

WordPress has announced the launch of my.WordPress.net – a new service that lets the website builder run entirely within a web browser, meaning you can create a totally private website-style interface without it ever appearing on the public internet.

It's build on WordPress Playground, a project that lets WordPress run locally, so users won't need to choose a hosting provider or register a domain.

Because these new types of site run locally within the browser storage, they'll be device-specific and cannot be accessible from your other devices.

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