WordPress Studio
Free desktop app for creating and managing local WordPress sites and for building and testing plugins and themes.
developer.wordpress.com/studio/repositorydocs
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.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-28: links
developer.wordpress.com/studio/ - 2026-10-28: links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/Automattic/studio - 2026-10-28: links, Categories, Runs as, Install with, License model
raw.githubusercontent.com/Automattic/studio/trunk/README.md - 2026-10-28: Maintainer
wordpress.com/tos/ - 2026-10-28: License
raw.githubusercontent.com/Automattic/studio/trunk/package.json - 2026-10-28: First release, Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/Automattic/studio/releases?per_page=100 - 2026-10-28: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/Automattic/studio/contributors?per_page=1