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Calypso is the new WordPress.com front-end – a beautiful redesign of the WordPress dashboard using a single-page web application, powered by the WordPress.com REST API. Calypso is built for reading, writing, and managing all of your WordPress sites in one place.

It’s built with JavaScript – a very lightnode plusexpress server,React.js,Flux,wpcom.js, and many other wonderful libraries on the front-end.

You can read more about Calypso atdeveloper.wordpress.com/calypso.

You can try out the user-side of Calypso onWordPress.com (a lot of the logged-in area is Calypso; if in doubt, view source), you can poke around the code here on GitHub, or you can install it and run it locally. The latter is the most fun.

1. Make sure you havegit,node, andnpm installed.
2. Clone this repository locally.
3. Add127.0.0.1 calypso.localhost to your local hosts file.
4. Executemake run from the root directory of the repository.
5. Opencalypso.localhost:3000 in your browser.

Need more detailed installation instructions?We have them.

If Calypso sparks your interest, don’t hesitate to send a pull request, send a suggestion, file a bug, or just ask a question. We promise we’ll be nice. Just don’t forget to check out ourCONTRIBUTING doc – it includes few technical details that will make the process a lot smoother.

Need to report a security vulnerability? Go tohttps://automattic.com/security/ or directly to our security bug bounty sitehttps://hackerone.com/automattic.

We support the latest two versions of all major browsers, except IE, where we currently only support 11 and Edge. (seeBrowse Happy for current latest versions).

If you have any problems running Calypso,please see most common issues.

Calypso is licensed underGNU General Public License v2 (or later).