Now

Standalone command-line tool to run local sites on WordPress Playground

This is a fork of wp-now, customized for local development and testing purpose. Upstream wp-now is deprecated; this fork runs on the maintained WordPress Playground 3.x packages.

PHP versions

PHP runtimes are installed per version to keep installs small. PHP 8.2 is included by default. To use another version, install its runtime package and pass phpVersion (or --php):

npm install @php-wasm/node-8-4

Available: 7.4, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 (@php-wasm/node-<major>-<minor>).

Notes:

• The optional intl PHP extension is not supported (see php-wasm-node/README.md).
• On Windows, run the test suite with npm run test:node (Node with native TypeScript support). Bun cannot load the fs-ext native module on Windows (it is a NAN-based addon; Bun's V8 ABI shim crashes - see oven-sh/bun#4290).