WordPress EmDash - A WordPress inspired CMS built on Astro - April fools prank or what?

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Cloudflare built a new CMS, in beta now. It’s written entirely in TypeScript. It is serverless, but you can run it on your own hardware or any platform you choose. Plugins are securely sandboxed and can run in their own isolate, via Dynamic Workers, solving the fundamental security problem with the WordPress plugin architecture. And under the hood, EmDash is powered by Astro, the fastest web framework for content-driven websites.

Test it at https://emdashcms.com

GitHub https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash

Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

 

[Outlaw]

What in the fuuuuuuuuuck

I need this

 

[Enlightened]

Joost posted his thoughts on it, very interesting that its AI-native from the get go, feels like the future.

EmDash: a CMS built for 2026 | Joost.blog

Cloudflare launched EmDash, a CMS designed for AI-native development. Agent-first tooling, sandboxed plugins, edge deployment. Analysis from Joost de Valk.

joost.blog

 

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Cloudflare is aiming to replace 24 years of WordPress reign with a new open-source CMS which was built in two months with the help of AI agents. Plugin security is a headline pitch. Just use Workers, the company’s computing platform, to isolate plugins.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

 

[Dopious]

Aready posted here.

WordPress - EmDash - A WordPress inspired CMS built on Astro - April fools prank or what?

Cloudflare built a new CMS, in beta now. It’s written entirely in TypeScript. It is serverless, but you can run it on your own hardware or any platform you choose. Plugins are securely sandboxed and can run in their own isolate, via Dynamic Workers, solving the fundamental security problem with...

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[ggmopa]

Another Interesting critique on this - https://www.searchenginejournal.com...es-emdash-cant-compete-with-wordpress/571053/

 

[Dopious]

EmDash: First thoughts and takeaways for WordPress - Brian Coords

Cloudflare launched its big WordPress competitor. What can WordPress learn from where Astro's CMS is heading?

www.briancoords.com

 

[Outlaw]

beat this: http://localhost:4321

 

[Outlaw]

Antigravity and MCP connections really do love EmDash... Can't wait til the dataset's get a bit of weight into them, just need to create Stripe payment links then I've crafted something I couldn't seem to get done with Astro, Next, or WP...