# WordPress Studio

Free desktop app for creating and managing local WordPress sites and for building and testing plugins and themes.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/wordpress-studio/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- home: https://developer.wordpress.com/studio/
- repository: https://github.com/Automattic/studio
- docs: https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/developer-tools/studio/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Automattic Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2024
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: dev-tool
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: not applicable
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: local
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: download

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: GPL-2.0-or-later

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-21

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 547
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: unknown
- contributors: 76
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://developer.wordpress.com/studio/ (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/Automattic/studio (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Automattic/studio/trunk/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://wordpress.com/tos/ (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Automattic/studio/trunk/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/Automattic/studio (read 2026-10-28)
- runsAs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Automattic/studio/trunk/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Automattic/studio/trunk/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Automattic/studio/trunk/package.json (read 2026-10-28)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Automattic/studio/trunk/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/Automattic/studio/releases?per_page=100 (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/Automattic/studio/releases?per_page=100 (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/Automattic/studio/releases?per_page=100 (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/Automattic/studio (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/Automattic/studio/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

WordPress Studio is a desktop app for creating and managing WordPress sites on the developer's machine, and for building and testing plugins and themes there. It can import a WordPress site to work on locally, sync a site with WordPress.com or Pressable, and share cloud-hosted preview links. The Studio CLI exposes some of its features outside the app. The app is installed from a download for macOS, Windows or Linux, and Automattic Inc. maintains it.

## Worth knowing

Sync and preview depend on WordPress.com: Preview Sites are hosted in the cloud and expire after seven days without updates. The README calls the app free and open source, and the repository is GPL licensed.

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