Founder notes.

A few words from the person
building Respira for WordPress.

What shipped. What I’m learning. What you’re building. Letters from behind the scenes, whenever there’s something worth sharing.

Mihai DragomirescuFounder, respira.press

Mihai in a moss-green Respira hoodie, building MCP, CLI, AER, Exhale, Murmur, Earn, the WordPress plugin and SDK, with the free Inhale and Arc plugins, beside his wife, daughter and son

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Founder notes, No. 01: a free WordPress vulnerability check, and an AI that can't approve itself

The first weekly Founder notes: a free 20-second vulnerability check for any WordPress site, why your AI can no longer approve its own work, six builders measured, and Grok.

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Earlier notes

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  1. Murmur: your client taps the spot on the WordPress page and says what to change

    Murmur is a link to your WordPress page that a client opens with no login. They tap the spot and leave a note, the note reaches your dashboard and your inbox, and your AI makes the change on a copy you approve. With a 56-second video, and the new link a client keeps for change requests.

  2. Good things grow together.

    A community story, a live WordPress meetup, and an invitation to support Respira on DevHunt and share what you are building.

  3. Respira at the AI + WordPress Help Desk, Tuesday 6 October

    An invitation to a free online meetup on Tuesday 6 October: a live demo by Bryan Rambow, an agency owner who uses Respira every day, your questions, and three licences given away at the end.

  4. A plugin that was running and not in the plugin list

    One hidden plugin took a company's legal pages offline. What it looked like, what the security scan checks since Respira for WordPress 9.1.10, and how to scan every site in two minutes.

  5. 20 million lines of code, and a thank you

    The counter passed 20 million lines of code. A thank-you, the trailer with the new security scan, and what people using Respira wrote.

  6. Respira Exhale is here: drop an HTML file, get a page in your builder

    Respira Exhale, the HTML to WordPress converter: an HTML file becomes a real page in the page builder your site already uses.

  7. Jev in Respira AER: a second model checks every change your AI makes

    Respira AER now runs Jev, a small decision model from TypeSafe, next to the AI you already use, to check that every change landed.

  8. Respira AER is out: one workspace for every WordPress site you run

    Respira AER becomes the workspace in your dashboard, Murmur brings the people who review changes into the loop, and Respira for WordPress 9.0 adds the security work.

  9. Five things Respira does now that it could not when you signed up

    For people who made an account and never connected a site: five things that did not exist then, each with a line to paste to your AI.

  10. Your clients see your studio, and you can quote the jobs you used to turn down

    White label: your studio name, logo and support address on the plugin your clients open, plus the earn calculator and activity reports.

  11. What August turned into

    Five things that shipped in August: the security scan, Art Direction, Figma three ways in, white label and Resonance.

  12. Last day for the €45 code

    The MIHAI45 birthday code on its last day, and what it came to on the plan most people start on. The offer has ended.

  13. The car I told you about

    The family car I worked nine months for was destroyed while parked, by a drunk driver. Nobody was hurt. A short, personal note.

  14. €45 off ends Sunday, and how to actually use it

    I turned 45 and put €45 off a first annual plan behind a code, then explained where to type it. The offer has ended.

  15. Stop re-explaining your site to your AI

    Resonance, a memory for your WordPress site that your AI reads before it works, design tokens that cannot drift, and the rest of that week in one letter.

  16. Four useful things, and one personal milestone

    A week without meetings: a new Safety and Security center, Full Site Editing support and more, plus a personal milestone.

  17. Respira 8.0 Canopy: plugin, MCP server and WooCommerce add-on

    Respira now speaks the WordPress Site Editor too: block templates, synced patterns, navigation menus and design tokens, on the same staged-safety rules.

  18. Make your store readable to AI shoppers

    Respira ARC, free on WordPress.org: product feeds in six formats and a store summary file, so AI assistants can read and recommend a WooCommerce store.

  19. 243 days ago I was fed up with myself

    A personal letter, 243 days after I decided something had to change, about building Respira and what it is for.

  20. Bring your team. Pay only for the months they work.

    Teams on every paid plan: invite people by email, set their access per site, give clients a seat that shows only their own sites.

  21. One connection. Every site. Switch by name.

    The MCP setup, rebuilt in 7.5: connect every WordPress site in one go and tell your AI which one you mean by name.

  22. Respira for WordPress 7.4 Clearing

    Every supported page builder taken apart, closing each place where Respira wrote data the builder ignored while still reporting success.

  23. Plugin 7.2: connect by browser sign-in

    Claude Desktop, claude.ai, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor and Codex can add a WordPress site as a connector by URL, with a browser sign-in.

  24. Roots: the biggest Respira release since launch

    Respira 7.1 Roots: a rebuilt admin, Playbooks and more, the biggest release since launch, with no breaking changes.

  25. WordPress 7.0 shipped, and Inhale fills its one small gap

    WordPress 7.0 made AI part of core. Inhale, automatic bug reports, MCP 6.18.1, Earn and the affiliate programme.

  26. Two questions, and a small idea, from the Netherlands

    A personal letter written on a family trip, with two questions for the people using Respira.

  27. Plugin 6.3: the Elementor conversion validator

    Seven rendering rules check every HTML to Elementor conversion and fix the errors they find, plus Divi patches up to 6.3.5.

  28. Plugin 6.2: deep Oxygen support

    Oxygen Builder support in depth: 49 components catalogued with their properties, defaults and nesting rules.

  29. Plugin 6.0: Flatsome becomes builder number 12

    Full support for the Flatsome UX Builder, the most popular WooCommerce theme.

  30. Respira 5.2 "Elemental": element-level editing and HTML to builder

    Element-level editing, HTML prototypes turned into native page builder content, and 65 new tools.

  31. Release 5.0 Haven: every AI edit now has an undo button

    Snapshots of the builder data before every edit, because WordPress revisions only keep the title, content and excerpt.

  32. Launch lessons, broken checkout, and what is next

    Checkout was down for about 48 hours and is fixed, what version 4.2 brought, and what comes next.

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