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At WordCamp US last week, we unveiled a completely reimagined WordPress Studio desktop app, rebuilt from the ground up around Studio Code, our AI WordPress expert. |
With this new Studio desktop experience, you can describe what you want to the expert WordPress agent, watch it come together in a live preview, point at anything that’s off, and ship it to production when it’s ready, all in one window.
You’re left with a full WordPress build you own and can maintain, not throwaway code. |
Today, it’s available in beta for everyone to try. |
How to access the beta and what to expect |
You can try this new desktop UI in just four steps: |
And if you’re a brand-new Studio user — welcome! You’ll see the new agentic UI as default, so there’s no need to opt into the beta. |
The Studio interface has been reimagined to focus on agentic development, with three panels next to each other in a single window: |
- Your Sites on the left
- A chat with Studio Code in the middle
- A live preview of your site on the right
Switch on the new UI without losing a thing |
If you’re an existing Studio user, you won’t lose your current sites when you switch the new experience on; every local site from the old experience carries over automatically. Nothing to migrate, re-import, or rebuild. |
Pick a site to jump back into it, start or stop it, or open its settings. |
Chat with Studio Code to make it happen |
The agent in the middle panel is Studio Code, our coding agent built for WordPress that knows blocks, themes, and WP-CLI natively. |
In fact, this is what WordPress developer Olivier Gobet said about his experience building with Studio Code: |
I’ve been building WordPress sites for almost 20 years, and Studio Code has genuinely changed the way I work. For the first time in a long while, I feel like I’m no longer limited by the technical barriers of implementation. Instead of asking myself, “Is this possible?“, I can focus on, “What do I want to build?” |
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You describe what you want in plain language, and Studio Code builds it on a real local WordPress install where you can build, vibe, and experiment. Chat history is stored so you can easily stop and restart a work in progress, and you can always spin up a new chat for each site when you want to start fresh: |
If you want to give Studio Code standing instructions it follows on every task, set them under Settings → AI. |
That same screen is where you can also toggle agentic features off entirely if you’d rather build WordPress the classic way. |
Watch it build in real time |
Changes render live in the in-app preview as Studio Code works. You see the site take shape with every ask, so there’s no switching between browser and UI to check whether an edit landed. |
It’s a working preview of your local site, too: click any link to move to other pages, just as a visitor would, and watch them update as Studio Code makes changes. You can even access the admin dashboard to manage posts, pages, products, and everything else you’re used to. |
One of your favorite tools is still available, too, just in a different spot. Use the Annotate button to send specific, targeted requests to Studio Code. |
Click the elements you want changed, stack up your notes, submit them with one click, and Studio Code makes every edit in one pass. It’s the client-feedback loop, built into the tool, and it’s a natural fit for your workflow of reviewing, marking up, and revising a site fast. |
Build locally, ship when you’re ready |
The core functionality of Studio remains too: you’re able to spin up a real, local WordPress site in seconds by clicking the + button in the toolbar. |
Because everything you build happens locally, you can try things, break things, and start over with zero risk to a live site. Nothing goes live until you say so. |
When it’s ready, you ship to fast, managed hosting on a paid WordPress.com or Pressable plan in a few clicks with Studio Sync. |
What you build in Studio is real WordPress: portable, dependable and yours to maintain. |
Meet the new WordPress Studio |
Give the new Studio desktop beta a real workout. Point it at an actual project, a brief, some images, a vibe, and see how far it gets, where it shines, and where it falls short. |
During this beta period, you’ll get a one-time credit gift from us to try it out. Once you hit your limit, top-ups are available for just $10. |
And we want to know how it goes. Open a GitHub issue with your feedback, bug reports, and ideas. Your input shapes what comes next. |
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