EmDash 1.0: the stable CMS with a secure plugin registry
Cloudflare released EmDash 1.0, a free open-source Astro-based CMS with a decentralized plugin registry, MCP server support, and agent APIs.
Cloudflare released EmDash 1.0, a stable MIT-licensed open-source CMS built on Astro and positioned as a spiritual successor to WordPress, offering editorial, media, localization, migration, and deployment workflows. It includes a decentralized plugin registry that avoids central marketplace ownership, plus API, CLI, and built-in MCP server interfaces for agents. The Cloudflare Blog migrated to EmDash as Customer Zero, handling millions of weekly pageviews and spikes up to 5,000 RPS, and the project counts 175+ contributors across 1,800+ commits with translations into 25 languages.
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