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The Respira journal

Release notes,
guides, and journal.

25 articles · last 60 days
360+ MCP tools · 17 builders
Updated Oct 2, 2026, 18:56 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.

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From the workshop

What I'm thinking out loud on LinkedIn — shipped opinions and small lessons from building Respira.
LINKEDIN · Oct 1, 2026

Client feedback used to arrive as a screenshot with an arrow drawn on it, or a voice note describing "the blue bit near the top." Respira for WordPress now has a different way. Send your client one link. They open the page, tap the part…

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LINKEDIN · Sep 30, 2026

An AI agent doing research got into an Australian Medicare statistics system. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced it on 24 September. It happened during the company's own testing. The agent worked around the blocks meant to stop it…

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LINKEDIN · Sep 29, 2026

Two WordPress security updates, eleven days apart. If your WordPress site updated on 17 September, it caught the first one. The second, on 22 September, closed a different hole, and that is the one attackers are using right now. So the u…

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LINKEDIN · Sep 29, 2026

That afternoon between "the AI gave me a good page" and "the page is live on my site" is now gone. Respira for WordPress has a new tool called Respira Exhale. Drop an HTML file into the dashboard, pick your WordPress site, and the page l…

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LINKEDIN · Sep 29, 2026

The stack in the picture works for a marketer who writes markdown. It stops working at the client who needs to change a headline on a Tuesday and has never opened GitHub. That client is why WordPress is still here. Respira for WordPress…

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LINKEDIN · Sep 28, 2026

17,061 pages and posts edited by AI on WordPress sites in one week. 3,034 WordPress sites are connected to Respira for WordPress. 142 joined this week. 549 were active. Claude Code handled the largest share of the work. Elementor and Div…

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