# A safe place to try anything in WordPress

- Link: https://tomas-shejbal.cz/en/wordpressito/a-safe-place-to-try-anything-in-wordpress/
- Published: 2026-02-02T10:39:19+01:00
- Author: tom

# A safe place to try anything in WordPress

Do you want to try a plugin, make a change, or just play with WordPress — without
the risk of breaking your live website?

There is a simpler way than setting up a subdomain and a development server.

![Kresba obálky hry Doom](https://tomas-shejbal.cz/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wordpressito_testovani_prostredi.
webp)

_Last changed: 2. 2. 2026_

## TasteWP – a test space ready in seconds

The service [TasteWP.com](http://tastewp.com/) gives you a clean, working copy of
WordPress in moments. It runs for a few hours — long enough to test anything you
need.

Just say yes to the terms, click "Setup", and in a short time you have a working
WordPress. You get a web address for your test site and can start right away.

If you need more time, or want to share the space with a team, you can keep it going
for a small amount of money. Otherwise, after a few hours it goes away on its own—
nothing to clean up, nothing to worry about.

## Clean up after first login

When you log in, you see the normal WordPress dashboard. There are often some plugins
already there that you do not want, so just turn them off and delete them.

Your test WordPress is now ready.

## And now for something silly: the Doom plugin

To show that you can try absolutely anything on TasteWP — including things you would
never put on your real website — let's look at the [Doom](https://github.com/jonathanbossenger/doom)
plugin.

You can get it free from GitHub as a ZIP file. What does it do? It turns your WordPress
into a place where you can play the old computer game Doom — the classic that ran
on old machines with DOS. 🙂 Yes, that old legendary shooting game.

## How to put it in and run it

You put in the plugin, turn it on, make a new page, and add a "Doom" block. After
you publish the page, a DOS copy of the game starts right away with the classic 
menu. You can pick an episode (for example Shores of Hell), set how hard you want
it, and you are off.

## Why am I showing this?

This is of course something silly that you would not put on your real website. But
that is exactly why it is great to have a test space like TasteWP.

You can try anything — plugins you are not sure about, or new things you want to
test.

An even better use is to test whether different plugins work well together.

And when you are done, you simply log out.