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6 min readWhere WordPress Playground stops working
Playground runs WordPress in your browser with no server at all. Here is exactly where that architecture runs out: networking, the database, email, persistence, and sharing.
5 min readMount a throwaway WordPress site as a folder on your Mac
Editing a remote WordPress site through an SFTP client is a bad loop. Here is how to mount a disposable WordPress install as a real folder, open it in your editor, and why sshfs on macOS is no longer the way to do it.
6 min readWhat shipped in July 2026
GitHub pull request previews, SSH and SFTP into a disposable site, an email log, a debug-log viewer, Blueprints, and a one-click reset. A month of SandyWP releases, grouped by what they let you actually do.
7 min readA real WordPress preview for every pull request
Reviewing a WordPress plugin PR usually means checking out the branch locally. Here are the two ways to get a live preview URL on the pull request instead, and when each one is the right call.
1 min readSandyWP is launched
Real WordPress sandboxes in about seven seconds disposable by default, shareable with one link. Here is what is in the box on day one.