The company that created the open-source publishing program said on Wednesday that WordPress’s publishing software may now operate fully within the web browser. The WordPress software allows users to create a website and start publishing without acquiring a domain, setting up a hosting plan, or joining up through a new service called my.WordPress.net. Rather, the new approach makes WordPress available as a permanent, personal publishing platform by utilizing the same technology that supports WordPress demonstrations.
Running WordPress in this manner has a significant drawback: the websites hosted on my.WordPress.net are by default private and inaccessible from the public internet.
According to a blog post launching the new service, “they aren’t optimized for traffic, discovery, or presentation, and they don’t need to be.” “Instead, WordPress turns into a private space where ideas can exist before they are ready to be shared, or where they may never be shared at all.”
With their data stored in the browser’s storage, the websites made with this service are restricted to your web browser. This implies that you are unable to visit the website using a different device. However, if you ever choose to make your website public, you can transfer it to a dedicated WordPress host.
This presents WordPress as a personal workplace for tasks like writing in secret, journaling, drafting, research, learning, or creating tools for one’s own usage. For the latter, my.WordPress.net has an App Catalog with a range of products made with WordPress plug-ins, such as an AI Workspace, a bookmarking tool, a personal CRM, and a personal RSS reader.
According to the post, WordPress Playground, an open-source project that enables one-click WordPress installation on any device and connects with OpenAI and CLI apps to create new tools, powers my.WordPress.net. As a result, you may utilize an AI assistant to alter my.WordPress.net, to do things like tweak a plug-in or construct a new one.
Additionally, you may query the assistant about facts saved in WordPress that it remembers, turning WordPress into an AI-accessible personal knowledge base.
The article warns that the service will take longer to activate the first time you use it and suggests that backups be saved on a frequent basis. Because of its starting storage capacity of about 100MB, it is more suitable for use cases and smaller, personal programs.
You can reset the website by clicking a button if you ever wish to remove your present work. Alternatively, you can create fresh, transient instances that reset themselves upon browser refreshes.
The service’s introduction comes after a WordPress AI team was established last year with the goal of introducing new AI products for the developer community. Last year, WordPress.com, a commercial hosting provider, introduced an AI website builder that allows you to create a website with an interface akin to that of an AI chatbot.