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29 articles · last 60 days
340+ MCP tools · 17 builders
Updated Sep 16, 2026, 21:29 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.

Essay dispatches

6 posts
Essay
Aug 24, 2026

The approve button is gone. What replaces it.

Anthropic measured it: humans clicking approval prompts caught 13.6% of dangerous commands, falling to 5% after fifty prompts. Auto mode, Guardian and always-on cloud agents are the industry removing a button that was not working. What safety means for a WordPress site once nobody is watching.

Essay
Aug 19, 2026

WordPress.com shipped Guidelines. What site memory looks like when you self-host.

WordPress.com gave sites a persistent AI memory, core is building wp_knowledge, and self-hosted sites have had Resonance since 3 August. What the three share, why memory that travels with the site beats memory that belongs to one assistant, and the one thing a memory cannot do by being read.

Essay
Jun 8, 2026

AI can edit your live site now. Can it take it back?

The agentic WordPress tools are racing on speed and skipping recovery. What I think we should hold ourselves to, and exactly what I've built.

Essay
May 20, 2026

WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” shipped today. The substrate just changed.

Abilities API, AI Client, and Connectors all landed in core today. Inhale: MCP Abilities is the free WordPress.org settings page that replaces the documented PHP filter, shipped in time for 7.0.

Essay
Apr 20, 2026

WordPress 7.0 is delayed. here's what agencies using AI should actually do during the window.

WordPress 7.0 was delayed on March 31. Agencies using AI tools on client sites have a narrow window. Here is what actually ships with 7.0, what does not, and what to do now.

Essay
Apr 2, 2026

Pricing, philosophy, and the first 100

Respira moves to subscription pricing with Maker, Builder, and Studio. A letter to the first 100 people who believed before the product was ready.

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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From the workshop

What I'm thinking out loud on LinkedIn — shipped opinions and small lessons from building Respira.
LINKEDIN · Sep 16, 2026

Close the laptop mid-run. The report still arrives. Respira AER cloud runs hand off to a background worker the moment you step away. When the run finishes, an email lands with a link to anything still waiting on your approval. A run that…

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LINKEDIN · Sep 16, 2026

Resisted the temptation to launch another AI chat. Built a workspace for your WordPress sites instead. Respira AER is the new workspace inside Respira for WordPress: pick one WordPress site or several, say what needs doing, and it plans,…

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LINKEDIN · Sep 16, 2026

A chat box answers questions. A workspace does the work. Respira for WordPress lets Claude, ChatGPT and other AI agents edit a live WordPress site safely. Respira AER, new this week, is the workspace where that work is planned, approved…

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LINKEDIN · Sep 16, 2026

Eight service pages. One call-to-action. Change it once. That is what Divi's Library was built for, and until now getting an AI assistant to actually use it meant hand-holding every step. Respira for WordPress 8.8.1 closes that gap. An A…

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LINKEDIN · Sep 15, 2026

Agencies running AI against client WordPress sites often hit the same blind spot: which client is actually expensive. Earn is the answer. Respira for WordPress logs every AI turn with its own token count and dollar cost, broken down by s…

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LINKEDIN · Sep 15, 2026

Four kinds of seat. One account. No overlap. Respira for WordPress now has a full team layer built in. Editors work across sites. Clients see only their own. Members, packs, usage, and the audit trail all live on one page, so granting so…

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