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20 articles · last 60 days
320+ MCP tools · 17 builders
Updated Aug 9, 2026, 22:50 UTC

I ship in public. Every release shows up here with its audit trail, every comparison with receipts, every essay with the specific thing I learned. No revolutionary, no supercharged — just the breath WordPress has been holding.

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10 posts
Community
Jul 15, 2026

Teams is live. You and your first member are free forever.

Invite your people, scope what each person can touch, see every change with a name on it, and pay only for the months a seat actually works. Fair billing, plainly.

Community
Jun 8, 2026

The gold rush and the undo button

A note on the strange moment WordPress is having, and what I hope we do with it

Community
Apr 4, 2026

100 strangers trusted me with their websites

What I learned selling software for 5 months

Community
Mar 23, 2026

Your AI Isn’t Broken. Your Prompt Is.

If your prompts are “make my homepage better”, I have something to tell you

Community
Mar 21, 2026

WordPress and AI just entered a new phase. Officially.

For 20y, WordPress has been edited through interfaces, and now two teams shipped products that make conversation the interface.

Community
Mar 12, 2026

The Refund That Made Everything Better

What happens when your first refund request becomes your best product feedback

Community
Feb 28, 2026

Respira for WordPress 3.0: What we shipped this month ...and some unexpected news

What we shipped this month, what’s unexpectedly starting to happen around Respira, and how to grab launch pricing before it flips.

Community
Feb 21, 2026

We're Building This Together: Respira Updates & What's Next

983 pages edited. 28,045 lines of code written. 14 early adopters trusting me with their WordPress sites.

Community
Feb 10, 2026

WordPress Just Got an AI Layer. Here's What Actually Works (and What's Still Missing)

A practical guide to every WordPress MCP integration available right now — Claude Connector, Abilities API, MCP Adapter, and the page builder gap nobody's talking about

Community
Dec 2, 2025

Why Your AI Assistant Can't Actually Edit Your WordPress Site (And What I Did About It)

Build-in-public update from respira.press

The community · building in public

You're not the only one talking to WordPress.

The Respira community is where agency owners debug Divi migrations at 11pm, where vibe coders swap prompts that actually ship, and where the roadmap gets written out loud. Breathe with us.

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Live from the Respira ecosystem · updates as the agent ships

From the workshop

What I'm thinking out loud on LinkedIn — shipped opinions and small lessons from building Respira.
LINKEDIN · Aug 5, 2026

A useful AI security tool should know where its authority ends. Respira can prove WordPress versions, official core checksums, users, plugins, cron and bounded filesystem/database indicators. It can implement supported fixes after approv…

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LINKEDIN · Aug 4, 2026

Managing one WordPress site through an AI assistant is straightforward. Managing twelve is where the setup either holds or falls apart. Respira for WordPress connects each client site once. After that, every AI assistant you use sees all…

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LINKEDIN · Aug 4, 2026

The hardest part of working with an AI assistant on your site isn't the tool. It's knowing what to ask for. Respira for WordPress ships 37 ready-to-run skills to solve exactly that. Each one is a proven workflow your AI assistant can loa…

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LINKEDIN · Jul 29, 2026

Respira 8.1 introduces Safety & Security: a fleet-wide WordPress vulnerability fixing center. It does more than compare version numbers. Respira gathers bounded, read-only evidence, matches it against reviewed advisories without model gu…

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LINKEDIN · Jul 28, 2026

Agencies have been asking for this since the early days: a way to share a Respira for WordPress account with a colleague without handing over API keys or rebuilding access from scratch. Teams is live. Invite a member, share your connecte…

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LINKEDIN · Jul 27, 2026

Until now, Respira for WordPress worked with twelve page builders. The one editor that ships inside WordPress itself was the gap. Respira 8.0 (Canopy) closes it. Block templates, template parts, synced and unsynced patterns, site navigat…

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