First introduced in April as the WordPress Core Dev Environment Toolkit, the WordPress Contributor Toolkit is an experimental desktop app that guides first-time contributors through setting up a full wordpress-develop environment. Git, Node.js, and npm are still involved under the hood, but the app provides and runs them for you. You do not have to install Git, Node.js, npm, or Docker on your machine.

WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.0 is now available for Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux.

The first releases concentrated on getting a newcomer from a fresh computer to a running WordPress development site. Version 1.0 carries that

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