People are often surprised that the first prototype of WordPress Playground came together in just a week. It is so very tempting to wear my serious face and add something like oh, you know, that’s just experience and a few tricks from robust chaos theory. Some experience was involved, sure, but mostly tricks and chaos.…
People often ask me why did you build WordPress Playground? Well, here’s the story: One time I wrote an entry-level introduction to the Gutenberg data layer, and I noticed it was everything but entry-level. It starts with an innocent-looking tar pit of setup instructions where you’re asked to: If you’ve ever been to a WordPress Contributor…