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34 articles · last 60 days
370+ MCP tools · 19 builders
Updated Oct 18, 2026, 18:44 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.

Education dispatches

9 posts
Education
Oct 15, 2026

Connect Claude Code to WordPress: setup, first edit, and undo

Install the Respira plugin, run one claude mcp add command, give it your site URL and key, and check it with /mcp. Then make a first edit that lands on a draft copy you approve, with a snapshot to undo it. Elementor, Divi and Bricks notes, skills, a CLAUDE.md for WordPress work, and the errors people hit.

Education
Sep 16, 2026

Use the AI subscription you already pay for to work on WordPress

Your Claude or ChatGPT subscription is not an API account, which is why most WordPress AI plugins cannot use it. Here is the way round that, in plain terms.

Education
Jul 19, 2026

How to edit Elementor pages with AI safely

Make AI-assisted Elementor edits through an approved workflow: native widget edits validated against Elementor’s controls, on a duplicate, with one-click rollback. Layout control stays with you.

Education
Jul 19, 2026

How to sandbox AI WordPress edits (without a staging site)

Sandboxing AI edits usually means a staging site and a sync headache. The lighter way: per-page duplicates, approval, and rollback that sandbox each change on the live site itself.

Education
Jul 19, 2026

How to edit Divi and Bricks content with AI

Edit Divi and Bricks Builder content with AI in each builder’s native format, without switching tools or exporting. How it works, and how it stays safe.

Education
Jul 19, 2026

How to create a free WooCommerce Google Shopping feed (2026)

Build a free, spec-correct WooCommerce Google Shopping product feed with Respira ARC and Google Merchant Center. No monthly feed plugin, served as a static file from your own server, and it doubles as an AI-shopping feed.

Education
Jul 19, 2026

How to safely use AI to manage WooCommerce (and get found in ChatGPT)

AI can manage WooCommerce products, orders and pricing, and make your store visible in ChatGPT and AI shopping. Both safely: approval-gated edits, one-click rollback, and free product feeds in six formats.

Education
Jul 19, 2026

Can ChatGPT or Claude edit a live WordPress site?

Yes. ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and other assistants can read and edit a live WordPress site through Respira, an MCP bridge. What they can change, how to connect one, and how it stays safe.

Education
Jul 19, 2026

What WordPress plugin lets AI edit your site with human approval?

AI can edit a live WordPress site now, but writing straight to production breaks things. The safe pattern is draft-first, human approval in wp-admin, and one-click rollback, shown with real numbers: 2,210 draft copies, 1,427 approved, 680 rollbacks across 1,755 sites.

From the workshop

What I'm thinking out loud on LinkedIn — shipped opinions and small lessons from building Respira.
LINKEDIN · Oct 17, 2026

luis.bacay, in their own words: "run WordPress/Divi rebuilds for multiple client sites as a solo developer, and Respira is the first tool that's let me safely hand real build work to an AI agent, database-level audits, Theme Builder temp…

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LINKEDIN · Oct 15, 2026

A plugin was running on a WordPress site. It wasn't on the Plugins screen. Nobody knew to look for it. It was quietly breaking two pages before the security audit in Respira for WordPress caught it. The audit now checks for plugins hidin…

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LINKEDIN · Oct 13, 2026

the part nobody talks about: ChatGPT can write you a genuinely good landing page in two minutes, and then someone has to spend an afternoon rebuilding it by hand in Divi or Elementor. i wanted to close that gap. Respira Exhale is new in…

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LINKEDIN · Oct 12, 2026

3,213 WordPress sites connected to Respira for WordPress. 184 joined this week. AI assistants touched 23,564 pages and posts across them. The live numbers are at respira.press/live

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LINKEDIN · Oct 10, 2026

The money for a car went into Respira for WordPress this year, not into ads. Not because ads never work. Because of what the money turns into. An ad buys a click, and the click ends when the budget ends. A sprint buys something that ship…

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Two kinds of light. AI moves fast. WordPress remembers. Respira for WordPress is the bridge between them. It lets ChatGPT, Claude or any AI assistant edit your WordPress site, in the page builder you already use. Every edit lands on a dr…

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