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• Phoronix Michael Larabel on x

  Cloudflare Announces EmDash As Open-Source “Spiritual Successor” To WordPress

• @dillon_mulroy Dillon Mulroy on x

  the team has been cooking on this for months and its now ready for the world - excited for y'all to try it!

• @mattietk Matt ‘TK’ Taylor on x

  @gabedenys We're not super into April fools jokes. It's real. Check the GitHub (and give us a star!) https://github.com/...

• @syedbalkhi Syed Balkhi on x

  I find the EmDash project and reactions around it fascinating on so many fronts. 1) The UX of WordPress that many folks in our community want to change seems to be quite functional IMO and now a company like Cloudflare when had the option to build from scratch still opted for

• @oliversild Oliver Sild on x

  Was not in my bingo card. Cloudflare is going after WordPress users with Astro + EmDash. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

• @dok2001 Dane Knecht on x

  Announcing: EmDash, the WordPress spiritual successor built for the modern web. TypeScript. Serverless. MIT licensed. x402 for agent-era monetization. MCP server built in. Deploy to Cloudflare or anywhere Node.js runs. Imports your existing WordPress site in minutes. npm [image]

• @cloudflare @cloudflare on x

  Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

• @learnwithmattc @learnwithmattc on x

  Cloudflare did the next most obvious thing after acquiring Astro... they built a CMS for it. The post calls it the “spiritual successor of WordPress”. But I have to ask... is the future really Astro + TinyMCE? Really? How they narrowly scope plugins is excellent though. [image]

• @youyuxi Evan You on x

  🤯 and it's built on @vite_js

• @thecraighewitt Craig Hewitt on x

  Still not sure if this is April Fools or not. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ... Amazing name either way

• @jonschr Jon Schroeder on x

  What if I told you there was a new CMS that includes the bad WordPress interface from 2015, the tinymce editor, and that it also won't work with normal WordPress plugins. How excited are we, people?

• @johnspurlock John Spurlock on x

  I really like Cloudflare, but god do they have ‘foot-in-mouth’ disease when it comes to positioning. Just release something great, don't call it “the spiritual successor to WordPress” - something an over-excited product-manager-brain-in-a-jar might say https://blog.cloudflare.com…

• @kevinkern Kevin Kern on x

  everytime I hear wordpress, I need to think about this. [image]

• @jonathan_wilke Jonathan Wilke on x

  if you started from scratch, couldn't you at least have created a better design than wordpress ?

• @metasal @metasal on x

  wow! first they just copy pasta @nextjs with OpenNext and now they just 100% copy pasta @WordPress with Emdash??? you can just take others work amazing tek! 0 focks given [video]

• @yaeloss Yaël Ossowski on x

  Wow, cloudflare has been COOKING. emdash looks beautiful https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

• @ritakozlov Rita Kozlov on x

  bet cloudflare launching a wordpress successor wasn't on your 2026 bingo card but! it's wild how much (40%!!!) of the web is still wordpress. we decided it was time for a makeover. so... enter emdash — familiar look and feel, open-source (MIT), built on typescript + astro [image]

• @metasal @metasal on x

  congrats @CloudflareDev for finally succeeding @WordPress and with @x402 support out of the box lfg! [image]

• @mattietk Matt ‘TK’ Taylor on x

  It's my first @Cloudflare blog, and it's a big one. We're rebuilding WordPress as if it were built today. It's end to end TypeScript, works as an Astro plugin, and has secure plugin execution in dynamic workers. It's called EmDash, try it now ⤵️ https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

• r/brdev r on reddit

  Cloudflare lança EmDash — sucessor espiritual do WordPress

• r/webdev r on reddit

  Cloudflare releases EmDash — an AI developed spiritual successor to WordPress

• r/WPDrama r on reddit

  Cloudflare releases open-source “spiritual successor to WordPress”: sandboxed plugins, Astro themes, MCP server

• r/Wordpress r on reddit

  EmDash by Cloudflare — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

• r/CloudFlare r on reddit

  Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

• @appfactory Peter Pistorius on x

  This is awesome. Gonna port my wife's last remaining Wordpress site over. I'm pretty sure the KPI for the developer platform is number of deployments.

• @mehulmpt Mehul Mohan on x

  I tried emdash - a “spiritual successor” to WordPress by Cloudflare released today (not April fool). There is a lot to discuss here, from the security model they are choosing, to the super rough first-look UI (it's their very first release, so I'll give a pass) Video out now! [im…

• @jbenton Joshua Benton on x

  Stone cold to call something the “spiritual successor” to something that's still alive

• @nick_prince12 @nick_prince12 on x

  holy shit cloudflare just launched a next gen cms with x402 on base built in we've entered the agentic era

• @ericlbarnes Eric L. Barnes on x

  Where does Polymarket put the odds on a Matt freakout over this?

• @yudhanjaya Yudhanjaya Wijeratne on x

  I'm always impressed that WordPress has survived for 24 years now. I've managed so many WordPress sites that the very thought of it fills me with fear and loathing - but it was surprisingly brilliant software.

• @getifyx @getifyx on x

  fun fact: I owned (squatted but intended to maybe use) the “emdash” npm package name... until yesterday when asked for it. ;-)

• @mattround.com Matt Round on bluesky

  This is interesting, and a lot of firms offering bog-standard LAMP hosting are going to be spending today pondering how it affects their future blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordp...

• @tomfrankly Thomas Frank on x

  Assuming it isn't an April Fools joke, I'm excited about this! Among open-source CMS options, I haven't been able to find any that offer a writing experience as good as WP's Gutenberg. For all the problems WordPress has, Gutenberg gives you a really nice place to write. Media