# Founder notes · respira.press > Letters from Mihai, founder of Respira for WordPress. What shipped, what we are learning, and what people are building. Read every note and get the next one. Source: https://www.respira.press/newsletter --- ## The next note, in your inbox. One letter when something worth reading has shipped, written by the person who built it. No schedule, no sequence, and one click to leave. ## The latest note 10 November 2026 [ Founder notes, No. 04: put your name next to WordPress A two-minute video for everyone who builds on WordPress, and one ask: put your name next to it. You get a card with your name and your years, a place on the list and a badge for your site. Read the note ! ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/founder-notes-2026-11-10) ## Earlier notes All here, whenever you need them. 1. [ 4 November 2026 Founder notes, No. 03: your AI now asks you in the chatRespira 9.3.8 asks you in the chat before it changes plugins, menus and templates, and finishes 33 of 42 jobs on an open benchmark, the same as a password. What else shipped in 9.3.7 to 9.3.9, and what opens on day 365: Respira Code for WordPress. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/founder-notes-2026-11-04) 2. [ 31 October 2026 Make it so. The October releases.The October releases of Respira, in memoriam Sir Patrick Stewart: why, what shipped this month, the plugin release that carries his name, and a small crew badge every Respira account can claim. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/make-it-so) 3. [ 17 October 2026 Founder notes, No. 02: a letter from the Kogi, and what Respira already shared with itA letter about artificial intelligence from the Kággaba people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, what Respira already shared with it, and what was added: manifesto 1.1, how Respira decides, three new agent values, and four questions every write now answers. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/founder-notes-2026-10-17) 4. [ 16 October 2026 Your Claude Max or Team plan now pays for Respira AERSince 7 October a Claude Max plan adds $100 or $200 of API credit a month, and a Team plan up to $500, to a linked console organization. A key from that organization runs Respira AER on it. The four claim steps, and what it pays for. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/claude-max-credits) 5. [ 15 October 2026 Your clients can now send photos with their Murmur notesFor Studio and Founder: a client leaving a Murmur note can attach up to three photos, the review bar takes a picture of the spot, and a resolved note shows a done receipt. The notes land in a new inbox with Forward to AER. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/murmur-photos-studio) 6. [ 15 October 2026 Client feedback on the WordPress page, now with photosMurmur, client feedback on the WordPress page, now takes photos from a computer or a phone camera, a picture of the spot and a done receipt, on Studio and Founder. On Builder, Murmur keeps working as it does. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/murmur-photos) 7. [ 11 October 2026 Founder notes, No. 01: a free WordPress vulnerability check, and an AI that can't approve itselfThe 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/founder-notes-2026-10-11) 8. [ 7 October 2026 Murmur: your client taps the spot on the WordPress page and says what to changeMurmur 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/murmur-client-feedback) 9. [ 6 October 2026 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/devhunt-community) 10. [ 4 October 2026 Respira at the AI + WordPress Help Desk, Tuesday 6 OctoberAn 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/help-desk-october-2026) 11. [ 2 October 2026 A plugin that was running and not in the plugin listOne 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/hidden-plugin) 12. [ 30 September 2026 20 million lines of code, and a thank youThe counter passed 20 million lines of code. A thank-you, the trailer with the new security scan, and what people using Respira wrote. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/20-million) 13. [ 27 September 2026 Respira Exhale is here: drop an HTML file, get a page in your builderRespira Exhale, the HTML to WordPress converter: an HTML file becomes a real page in the page builder your site already uses. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/exhale-launch) 14. [ 19 September 2026 Jev in Respira AER: a second model checks every change your AI makesRespira AER now runs Jev, a small decision model from TypeSafe, next to the AI you already use, to check that every change landed. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/aer-jev) 15. [ 16 September 2026 Respira AER is out: one workspace for every WordPress site you runRespira 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/aer-launch) 16. [ 27 August 2026 Five things Respira does now that it could not when you signed upFor 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/five-things) 17. [ 20 August 2026 Your clients see your studio, and you can quote the jobs you used to turn downWhite label: your studio name, logo and support address on the plugin your clients open, plus the earn calculator and activity reports. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/white-label) 18. [ 15 August 2026 What August turned intoFive things that shipped in August: the security scan, Art Direction, Figma three ways in, white label and Resonance. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/august-2026) 19. [ 9 August 2026 Last day for the €45 codeThe MIHAI45 birthday code on its last day, and what it came to on the plan most people start on. The offer has ended. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/last-day-45) 20. [ 8 August 2026 The car I told you aboutThe family car I worked nine months for was destroyed while parked, by a drunk driver. Nobody was hurt. A short, personal note. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/only-the-car) 21. [ 6 August 2026 €45 off ends Sunday, and how to actually use itI turned 45 and put €45 off a first annual plan behind a code, then explained where to type it. The offer has ended. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/mihai-45) 22. [ 5 August 2026 Stop re-explaining your site to your AIResonance, 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/resonance-45) 23. [ 29 July 2026 Four useful things, and one personal milestoneA week without meetings: a new Safety and Security center, Full Site Editing support and more, plus a personal milestone. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/four-useful-things) 24. [ 27 July 2026 Respira 8.0 Canopy: plugin, MCP server and WooCommerce add-onRespira now speaks the WordPress Site Editor too: block templates, synced patterns, navigation menus and design tokens, on the same staged-safety rules. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/canopy-8-0) 25. [ 20 July 2026 Make your store readable to AI shoppersRespira 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/arc-launch) 26. [ 17 July 2026 243 days ago I was fed up with myselfA personal letter, 243 days after I decided something had to change, about building Respira and what it is for. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/243-days) 27. [ 15 July 2026 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/teams-launch) 28. [ 28 June 2026 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. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/one-connection) 29. [ 11 June 2026 Respira for WordPress 7.4 ClearingEvery supported page builder taken apart, closing each place where Respira wrote data the builder ignored while still reporting success. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/clearing-7-4) 30. [ 6 June 2026 Plugin 7.2: connect by browser sign-inClaude Desktop, claude.ai, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor and Codex can add a WordPress site as a connector by URL, with a browser sign-in. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/plugin-7-2) 31. [ 2 June 2026 Roots: the biggest Respira release since launchRespira 7.1 Roots: a rebuilt admin, Playbooks and more, the biggest release since launch, with no breaking changes. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/roots-7-1) 32. [ 21 May 2026 WordPress 7.0 shipped, and Inhale fills its one small gapWordPress 7.0 made AI part of core. Inhale, automatic bug reports, MCP 6.18.1, Earn and the affiliate programme. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/wordpress-7-0) 33. [ 26 April 2026 Two questions, and a small idea, from the NetherlandsA personal letter written on a family trip, with two questions for the people using Respira. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/from-the-netherlands) 34. [ 16 April 2026 Plugin 6.3: the Elementor conversion validatorSeven rendering rules check every HTML to Elementor conversion and fix the errors they find, plus Divi patches up to 6.3.5. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/plugin-6-3) 35. [ 14 April 2026 Plugin 6.2: deep Oxygen supportOxygen Builder support in depth: 49 components catalogued with their properties, defaults and nesting rules. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/plugin-6-2) 36. [ 10 April 2026 Plugin 6.0: Flatsome becomes builder number 12Full support for the Flatsome UX Builder, the most popular WooCommerce theme. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/plugin-6-0) 37. [ 27 March 2026 Respira 5.2 "Elemental": element-level editing and HTML to builderElement-level editing, HTML prototypes turned into native page builder content, and 65 new tools. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/elemental-5-2) 38. [ 22 March 2026 Release 5.0 Haven: every AI edit now has an undo buttonSnapshots of the builder data before every edit, because WordPress revisions only keep the title, content and excerpt. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/haven-5-0) 39. [ 13 March 2026 Launch lessons, broken checkout, and what is nextCheckout was down for about 48 hours and is fixed, what version 4.2 brought, and what comes next. ](https://www.respira.press/newsletter/launch-lessons) ## A little further behind the scenes. Longer reads on respira.love, about building Respira and what AI is doing to WordPress. - [8 June 2026The gold rush and the undo button](https://respira.love/p/the-gold-rush-and-the-undo-button) - [10 May 2026Self-Heal, Bloom, Cowork, and the Twenty-Seven Percent](https://respira.love/p/self-heal-bloom-cowork-and-the-twenty) - [4 April 2026100 strangers trusted me with their websites](https://respira.love/p/100-strangers-trusted-me-with-their) - [23 March 2026Your AI Isn’t Broken. Your Prompt Is.](https://respira.love/p/your-ai-isnt-broken-your-prompt-is) - [21 March 2026WordPress and AI just entered a new phase. Officially.](https://respira.love/p/wordpress-and-ai-just-entered-a-new) - [12 March 2026The Refund That Made Everything Better](https://respira.love/p/the-refund-that-made-everything-better) - [28 February 2026Respira for WordPress 3.0: What we shipped this month](https://respira.love/p/respira-for-wordpress-30-what-we) - [21 February 2026We’re Building This Together: Respira Updates & What’s Next](https://respira.love/p/were-building-this-together-respira) - [10 February 2026WordPress Just Got an AI Layer. Here’s What Actually Works](https://respira.love/p/wordpress-just-got-an-ai-layer-heres) - [2 December 2025Why Your AI Assistant Can’t Actually Edit Your WordPress Site](https://respira.love/p/why-your-ai-assistant-cant-actually-edit-your-wordpress-site)