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

Apr 1, 2026Matt “TK” Taylor, Matt Kane
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
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Introduced EmDash, a new open-source, serverless CMS built on TypeScript and Astro, as a spiritual successor to WordPress. EmDash addresses WordPress's plugin security crisis by running plugins in isolated Dynamic Worker sandboxes, granting them only explicitly declared capabilities via bindings. This model allows plugins to have any license and be trusted without revealing their source code. EmDash also includes built-in support for the x402 payment standard for content access.

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