Cloudflare has launched EmDash, an open-source MIT-licensed CMS built on Astro 6.0 and TypeScript, positioned as a modern successor to WordPress. The key innovation is plugin security: each plugin runs in an isolated Cloudflare Dynamic Worker sandbox with explicitly declared capabilities via bindings, eliminating the
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What WordPress has accomplishedSolving the WordPress plugin security crisisSolving plugin security means solving marketplace lock-inEvery EmDash site has x402 support built in — charge for access to contentSolving scale-to-zero for WordPress hosting platformsModern frontend theming and architecture via AstroAn AI Native CMS — MCP, CLI, and Skills for EmDashPluggable authentication, with Passkeys by defaultImport your WordPress sites to EmDashTry itSort: