Scopic Play: Everything you need to know

Scopic Play is an experimental in-browser WordPress that runs without a PHP server thanks to the magic of WebAssembly. In easy words, you can run WordPress even without installing it. You will get all the features backed with WordPress 6.1.1.

Why is Scopic Play useful?

 Scopic Play is a building block that can allow you to:

• Runnable code snippets in your documentation or course
• Plugin and theme demos in a private WordPress instance where the user is already logged in as an admin
• Learn WordPress for new users & students
• Debug your WordPress codes, custom plugins & themes
• Test all the plugins downloaded from Scopic HUB
• Check out the WordPress core features bundled with the latest version

What’s so special in Scopic Play?

WordPress is famous for its “5-minute Installation” but what if we make it “No installation required”? You don’t have to install WordPress to check the core features or just a few things. Get rid of installing a demo WordPress site with Scopic HUB.

Try out WordPress or any plugins or even themes on the go. You don’t need to set up the hosting or domain to get the vanilla WordPress version. For the kickstart, you can start out with a few themes. All you have to do is simply click on <image> available on the right top of the Scopic Play browser.

Starter Themes

Check out the available themes and try out the all available core features. All these themes work smoothly with the classic editor and Guttenberg editors.

Make changes or redesign the themes and test them out here.

Starter Plugins

How about a quick start with some plugins? We have created a few bundles of plugins that provide an additional feature to your demo site,

Scopic Play forked the WordPress Playground published at https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground.

Getting started

You can run Scopic Play through any supported browser. Make sure to have working Internet.

Pricing

Scopic Play is free to use.

Minimum requirements

Windows

• Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or later
• An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that’s SSE3 capable

MAC

• OS X El Capitan 10.11 or later

Linux

• 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian 10+, openSUSE 15.2+, or Fedora Linux 32+
• An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that’s SSE3 capable

Android

• Android 6 and above.

Release Information

We started developing Scopic Play around mid-winter. New features are being added on a regular basis, but the most significant update so far arrived on 25 November 2022. Moreover, Even more, new cool features were then introduced in December 2022. The public version is going to release on 1st Jan 2023.

This experimental software may break or change without a warning. Releasing a stable API is an important future milestone that will be reached once the codebase is mature enough. We look forward to hearing from you guys, you can share feedback, new ideas, or bugs.