Client demo in Playground

The scenario

A new landing page is ready locally and the client wants to see it before it goes to staging. Sending a link to a local site doesn’t work, and a Playground that opens on the dashboard, with every plugin switched on (including the ones the site keeps off), isn’t what the client should see.

The steps

1. On the local site, Tools → Export: check the page (and what it needs: menus, the look…).
2. Details → Format: Playground, then Playground options:
   • Landing page → A page: the new landing page;
   • Themes and plugins: the site’s theme and the plugins the page uses.
3. Export, then Open in Playground on the copy in the plugin’s Copies: that’s the link to send, on playground.wordpress.net.

What the client sees

Playground builds the site in the browser and opens on the landing page — the page goes in the blueprint as /?pagename=<its path>, so it’s found whatever ID it gets there. The plugins are on or off as they are locally: a plugin the site keeps inactive is installed but stays off.

What it doesn’t

• The link opens a throwaway site: what the client changes there is lost when the tab closes.
• Premium plugins go inside the file: share it only where their licenses allow.