Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress
A WordPress instance that's entirely hosted in your browser opens up interesting possibilities for self-hosted personal apps.
This is absolutely bonkers. If you’re on a desktop browser, it’s worth trying now.
“With my.WordPress.net, WordPress runs entirely and persistently in your browser. There’s no sign-up, no hosting plan, and no domain decision standing between you and getting started. Built on WordPress Playground, my.WordPress.net takes the same technology that powers instant WordPress demos and turns it into something permanent and personal. This isn’t a temporary environment meant to be discarded. It’s a WordPress that stays with you.”
Using WASM and local storage, an entire WordPress setup is installed in your browser, private to you. I’m curious about how nicely this plays with browser syncing — I’m a Zen user and use Firefox accounts to sync between devices, but haven’t kicked the tires yet. Because I flip between a few devices every day, that would be meaningful to me.
But still: running a web application like WordPress in a browser is a meaningful innovation. Launching it as a product instead of some kind of labs experiment tucked away somewhere also indicates that they’re confident in it. It’s interesting to think about what that might mean for other self-hosted personal applications. To-do lists? CRMs? Source management? Lots of scope for private apps that are entirely based on the web platform. What a neat thing.
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