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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.
Respira CLI for WordPress v0.1.0
A new open-source WordPress CLI built for Claude Code, Cursor, and AI coding agents. 29 commands. Builder-native. MIT licensed.
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26 postsRespira 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.
Flatsome UX Builder: AI-assisted editing for the #1 WooCommerce theme
Full support for Flatsome UX Builder. Extract, inject, element-level editing, build_page, and snapshots.
Respira Commerce vs other WooCommerce MCPs: honest comparison
Six WooCommerce MCP servers exist today, including the official one. Respira Commerce is the layer above them.
100 strangers trusted me with their websites
What I learned selling software for 5 months
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.
What happened in March — and what changes today
100 launch licenses claimed. New pricing live. Elemental series shipped. Bricks deep intelligence. 172 MCP tools.
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.
How to let AI edit your WordPress site (without breaking it)
Compare Respira, WordPress.com MCP, Elementor AI, CodeWP, Divi AI, and AI Engine across page builder support, safety, rollback, and MCP compatibility.
AI tools for WordPress agencies: what actually works in 2026
Multi-site management, client site safety, page builder coverage, team access controls, and audit logging for WordPress agencies.
The freelance developer's guide to AI-powered WordPress development
How freelancers use Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex with Respira to build client sites faster.
How to use AI to fix WordPress accessibility issues
Automated WCAG scanning, AI-powered fixes, and a practical workflow for delivering accessible WordPress sites.
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.
Your AI Isn’t Broken. Your Prompt Is.
If your prompts are “make my homepage better”, I have something to tell you
WordPress and AI just entered a new phase. Officially.
For 20y, WordPress has been edited through interfaces, and now two teams shipped products that make conversation the interface.
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.
WordPress.com Officially Ships AI Write Tools: What About Self-Hosted Sites That Don't Use Gutenberg?
WordPress.com launched 19 AI write tools for hosted Gutenberg sites. For the 60%+ of WordPress that's self-hosted with page builders, here's the alternative: Respira with 103 tools across 12 builders.
The Refund That Made Everything Better
What happens when your first refund request becomes your best product feedback
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.
Respira 3.3: API v2 fidelity rollout
Include-gated fidelity contracts, snapshots with diff/restore, stale-base approval protection, duplicate-first safety.
Respira for WordPress 3.0: What we shipped this month ...and some unexpected news
What we shipped this month, what’s unexpectedly starting to happen around Respira, and how to grab launch pricing before it flips.
Respira for WordPress vs Elementor AI: Complete Comparison (2026)
Elementor AI vs Respira: Compare safety, pricing, and features. Respira works with 11+ builders and never touches live pages. See which AI WordPress tool is right for you.
Respira vs CodeWP: Which AI WordPress Tool is Right for You? (2026)
CodeWP generates code, Respira edits pages safely. Compare features, pricing, and use cases to choose the right AI WordPress tool for your needs - developers vs agencies.
We're Building This Together: Respira Updates & What's Next
983 pages edited. 28,045 lines of code written. 14 early adopters trusting me with their WordPress sites.
WordPress Just Got an AI Layer. Here's What Actually Works (and What's Still Missing)
A practical guide to every WordPress MCP integration available right now — Claude Connector, Abilities API, MCP Adapter, and the page builder gap nobody's talking about
Why Your AI Assistant Can't Actually Edit Your WordPress Site (And What I Did About It)
Build-in-public update from respira.press
What I shipped this month — and some unexpected news
February 2025 update: about page, Divi 5 support, WebMCP for Chrome, ADA scanner, Community, WooCommerce add-on.
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From the workshop
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…
"Last week I tested Respira (https://www.respira.press/), a tool that allows you to work directly on your WordPress website via Claude. I was working on my own website, or rather a copy of my own website. Together with Claude, we thought…
Been testing Respira for WordPress — it connects AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor) to WordPress through MCP. The key insight: it snapshots every page before making changes, so you can review diffs and roll back. Works with Elementor,…
Three things I like about Respira for WordPress after a week of use: 1. It actually reads Elementor/Divi widget content — not just raw HTML 2. Snapshots every page before AI touches it 3. SEO analysis built in (Yoast + Rank Math) Connect…
Respira Lite is almost ready to be submitted to WordPress Plugin Directory. It's a fully functional version of the full plugin, supporting 4 major page builders with full intelligence and providing up to 110 MCP write operations/month fo…
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