The Respira journal

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23 articles · last 60 days
320+ MCP tools · 17 builders
Updated Aug 18, 2026, 15:58 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.

Release dispatches

15 posts
Release
Aug 13, 2026

Art Direction: the designer's vision, kept faithful by every AI

One saved design direction per site: palette, fonts, spacing and the don’ts, written into the builder’s own token stores, enforced on every AI build, and verified against the real rendered page with screenshots attached. With a live pane showing the actual page converge as the agent works. Free on every paid plan.

Release
Aug 12, 2026

White Label: your studio's name on every client site

Your studio's name, logo, accent and support address on the plugin your clients open in wp-admin, with Respira gone from the plugins list and the front end. Display-only, fully reversible, set once and synced to every site. From €200 a year, and the early-adopter roadmap is public.

Release
Aug 3, 2026

Your AI forgets your site every session. Resonance remembers.

Every Respira site now carries a persistent memory for AI agents: conventions the agent honors in every session, and rules the plugin enforces at the write path. It also reads the Knowledge experiment WordPress core is building toward, on real production sites today.

Release
Jul 26, 2026

Respira 8.0 Canopy brings Full Site Editing to AI assistants

Canopy adds native WordPress Full Site Editing, now usually called the Site Editor, alongside sixteen page builders: block templates, synced patterns, navigation and design tokens. It also fixes two bugs found by auditing the safety layer itself.

Release
Jul 17, 2026

WooCommerce Add-on v3.2: your store becomes agent-ready. 87 tools.

Agent-Ready Commerce ships in the add-on: feeds in six formats, llms.txt, a readiness score that becomes a fix loop, attributed cart links, write tools for Subscriptions, Bookings and Memberships, and STAGGS product configurator editing, tested against the real extensions.

Release
May 8, 2026

Respira for WordPress 7.0 Bloom: every adapter to deeper-intelligence parity

Every page-builder adapter promoted to deeper-intelligence parity. Five cross-cutting invariants every adapter inherits (render-validation gate, universal write-trace, Variables CRUD shape, source-driven catalog auto-scan, per-property typed validators) plus per-builder Phase B slices that close the v6.10.x family-bug arcs. 1076 standalone test assertions, 0 failures.

Release
May 5, 2026

Respira 6.11.0 Self-Heal: every customer-reported bug, fixed

14 customer bugs. 7 GitHub issues. 5 cross-cutting audits. The release the platform should have shipped weeks ago.

Release
Apr 20, 2026

Respira 6.6.0: 54 Advanced Custom Fields tools

54 ACF tools covering field reads and writes, field group management, ACF Pro repeaters, flexible content, galleries, options pages, relationships, and bulk updates. Every write snapshot-backed and dry-run previewable. Works on approximately 2 million WordPress sites that use ACF today.

Release
Apr 19, 2026

Respira CLI for WordPress v0.1.0

A new open-source WordPress CLI built for Claude Code, Cursor, and AI coding agents. 34 commands. Builder-native. MIT licensed.

Release
Apr 9, 2026

Respira 6.0 Storefront: Brings AI to WooCommerce | Flatsome

Flatsome UX Builder as Builder #12. 15 new WooCommerce Commerce tools with storefront design intelligence. Context-aware MCP tool filtering.

Release
Mar 30, 2026

Respira 5.4: Bricks Deep Intelligence

7 new Bricks tools. Cross-site element search, ACSS integration, page health checks, design system export, query loop discovery.

Release
Mar 27, 2026

Respira 5.2 Elemental: AI that speaks your builder’s language

65 new tools. Element-level editing targets individual widgets without downloading the page. build_page creates complete pages in one call.

Release
Mar 20, 2026

Respira 5.0 Haven: Every AI edit now has an undo button

Automatic version history on every edit, a new Changes mode that preserves URLs, and storage management you can trust.

Release
Mar 12, 2026

Respira 4.2.0: The refund that made everything better

Three pain points from Respira's first refund request became compact MCP responses, working copy consolidation, and real multi-site setup.

Release
Mar 4, 2026

Respira 3.3: API v2 fidelity rollout

Include-gated fidelity contracts, snapshots with diff/restore, stale-base approval protection, duplicate-first safety.

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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From the workshop

What I'm thinking out loud on LinkedIn — shipped opinions and small lessons from building Respira.
LINKEDIN · Aug 14, 2026

a designer hands over a beautiful site. six months later the palette has nine greys in it, three of them off by two hex digits, and nobody can say which one is correct. that used to happen slowly, by way of a dozen small human decisions.…

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LINKEDIN · Aug 12, 2026

I’ve been unusually quiet here for the past nine months because I’ve been unusually busy. I’ve been building Respira for WordPress. Here is what that work now enables for people who own WordPress sites—or make their living building and m…

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LINKEDIN · Aug 11, 2026

Global headers and footers are the hardest part of a Divi site to touch. One change, every page. Respira for WordPress now handles them. An AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT can open any Divi Theme Builder template, rewrite the global…

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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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