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# Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress
- URL: https://werd.io/your-browser-becomes-your-wordpress/
- Published: 2026-03-12T13:41:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-12T13:41:01.000Z
- Description: A WordPress instance that's entirely hosted in your browser opens up interesting possibilities for self-hosted personal apps.
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Technology, Notable links

\[[Brandon Payton at WordPress](https://wordpress.org/news/2026/03/announcing-my-wordpress/)\]

This is absolutely bonkers. If you’re on a desktop browser, [it’s worth trying now](https://my.wordpress.net/).

> “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](https://wordpress.org/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.

\[[Link](https://wordpress.org/news/2026/03/announcing-my-wordpress/)\]