Title: Many items broken
Last modified: October 5, 2023

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# Many items broken

 *  [Sarah Gooding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pollyplummer/)
 * (@pollyplummer)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/many-items-broken/)
 * While I love the idea of this plugin, through testing I have found that many 
   of the tools are broken. The generator doesn’t load the plugins and theme identified,
   although it does create a new Playground site. That’s just one example. The Plugin
   and Theme Explorer features don’t work – are these just meant to be placeholders
   for now? Currently it says: “Playground [does not yet support](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/issues/85)
   connecting to the plugin directory yet. You can still upload plugins or install
   them using the [Query API](https://wordpress.github.io/wordpress-playground/query-api)(
   e.g. ?plugin=coblocks).” Is anyone else having these issues with the plugin?

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 *  Plugin Author [Marc Armengou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc4/)
 * (@marc4)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/many-items-broken/#post-17341031)
 * Oh, I just saw this. I need to see how I can enable notifications.
 * I’m not sure I understand what problem you are having with the Generator tool.
   This tool is intended to place the slugs of one or more plugins, separated by
   commas. As for themes, you can only load one theme slug per request.
 * Playground can take a long time to load “heavy” plugins and the more plugins 
   you add the longer it will take. Could this be the problem?
 * For example, enter this string inside the Plugins field “performance-lab,simple-
   social-icons,genesis-simple-share” without the quotation marks.
 * This should generate this url: [https://playground.wordpress.net/?plugin=performance-lab&plugin=simple-social-icons&plugin=genesis-simple-share&theme=&url=/wp-admin/index.php&mode=seamless&storage=none](https://playground.wordpress.net/?plugin=performance-lab&plugin=simple-social-icons&plugin=genesis-simple-share&theme=&url=/wp-admin/index.php&mode=seamless&storage=none)
 * The Plugin and Theme Explorer work for me. Are you still having problems with
   these two tools?
 *  Plugin Author [Marc Armengou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc4/)
 * (@marc4)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/many-items-broken/#post-17341158)
 * I think I have found the problem. You are using Playground to test the plugin.
 * To avoid recurrence problems “I have not facilitated” that the plugin can be 
   generated inside a Playground with the plugin, that it generates a new Playground
   with the plugin, that it generates a new Playground with the plugin, etc.
 * I have experienced all the problems you say in this situation. However, if you
   install and use the plugin on a “real site” or in a local test environment, you
   should not have any of those problems.
 * Let me know if it worked for you
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by [Marc Armengou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc4/).
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by [Marc Armengou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc4/).
 *  Plugin Author [Marc Armengou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc4/)
 * (@marc4)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/many-items-broken/#post-17341571)
 * The Plugin and Theme Explorer did not work inside a Playground environment because
   Playground did not have network access before.
 * Now you can use the &networking=yes parameter to give Playground network access
   so that it can load both the plugin directory and the theme directory.
 * For example, with this configuration you will be able to use those two tools 
   inside a Playground environment:
 * [https://playground.wordpress.net/?plugin=toys-for-playground&url=/wp-admin/admin.php?page=toys-playground&mode=seamless&networking=yes](https://playground.wordpress.net/?plugin=toys-for-playground&url=/wp-admin/admin.php?page=toys-playground&mode=seamless&networking=yes)
 * However, I believe that problems are generated due to the “scopes” that Playground
   creates. I will continue to investigate this and how to solve the problems these
   same error in the Cloner and Generator tools.
 * Just remember that the plugin does not give problems on real sites and in local
   test environments. Only, ironically, within a Playground environment.
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by [Marc Armengou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc4/).

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 * Last reply from: [Marc Armengou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc4/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/many-items-broken/#post-17341571)
 * Status: not resolved