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EmDash Emerges: WordPress Rebuilt for a Sandboxed, Serverless World

Two months of AI agents grinding away, and out pops EmDash — a TypeScript CMS that sandboxes plugins like they're rogue apps. WordPress's spiritual heir just hit beta, promising to fix what 24 years broke.

EmDash admin dashboard with sandboxed plugin interface on a modern content site

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • EmDash sandboxes plugins in Dynamic Workers, fixing WP's core security flaw with capability manifests.
  • Built on Astro in TypeScript, it's serverless-native, deployable to Cloudflare or Node.
  • Aims for WP compatibility without its code, MIT-licensed to boost adoption.

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Priya Sundaram
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