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22 articles · last 60 days
172+ MCP tools · 12 builders
Updated May 20, 2026, 06:02 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

10 posts
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.

Lines of code pushed through Respira
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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 · May 20, 2026

daily pulse · morning · 20 May 2026 a snapshot of WordPress + AI activity in the last 24 hours, live from 840 sites bridged to Respira. — 347 people coding their WordPress with AI today — 85% on Claude Code, 6% Cursor, 4% Codex, 3% Claud…

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LINKEDIN · May 19, 2026

daily pulse · evening · 19 May 2026 a snapshot of WordPress + AI activity in the last 24 hours, live from 840 sites bridged to Respira. — 347 people coding their WordPress with AI today — 85% on Claude Code, 6% Cursor, 4% Codex, 3% Claud…

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LINKEDIN · May 18, 2026

a real agency testing Respira on a Divi 5 staging environment, in their own words: "i've tried several MCPs currently available for WordPress, but none of them come close to the scope and professionalism of your development." — Jan Kühn,…

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LINKEDIN · May 14, 2026

Adrian Pottinger used Respira for WordPress for a week and wrote down what stuck. point 1 is the one i'd underline. "it actually reads Elementor/Divi widget content, not just raw HTML." that line is five months of adapter work compressed…

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LINKEDIN · Apr 27, 2026

No grind. No hussle. Serving people who serve people. Respira.

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LINKEDIN · Apr 19, 2026

591 WordPress sites. 1.79M lines of code. 12 page builders. 146 days in. today the Respira ecosystem gets a command line. Respira CLI for WordPress. local-first. builder-native. built for Claude Code, Cursor, and the devs who live in the…

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