Founder notes, No. 04: put your name next to WordPress

Mihai DragomirescuFounder, Respira for WordPress

RESPIRA.PRESS NO. 04 · 10 NOVEMBER 2026
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What I shipped and wrote this week, in one short letter.
A NOTE FROM MIHAI

Put your name next to WordPress.

Every few days someone announces that WordPress is dying, and someone moves a site to whatever is new that week. The people who build on WordPress rarely answer. They are busy shipping.

So I made something that answers for them: a two-minute video about the agencies, plugin developers, page builders, theme makers, hosts and contributors who have kept WordPress going for 23 years, and why that makes it the platform most ready for AI agents. There is no product in it. It is made to be shared, by anyone, as their own.

AI can write a website in seconds. Running one safely, for years, with real people behind it, is the hard part, and WordPress has been doing that part since 2003. I build Respira on that bet every day, and I think it is worth saying out loud, with names attached.

So I am asking one thing: put your name next to WordPress. Your name, what you build and the year you started. It takes a minute.
THE VIDEO
The faces of the people in the video, with the title Built on, for and with WordPress
TWO MINUTES
Built on, for and with WordPress
Two minutes about the people who build on WordPress, with subtitles in eight languages and the hard facts behind every line, each with its source. Free to download and post as your own.
Watch it →
WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU ADD YOUR NAME
A card with your name and your years
Three personal cards: Ana Popescu, designer since 2011; Tom Berger, plugin developer since 2014; Sara Lind, AI plugin since 2023

As you type, the page draws a card with your name, what you build and the year you started. Its link shows that card wherever you post it, and brings people back to the video.

Once I have read your entry, you go on the list of people building on WordPress, with your logo, your site and your X account. Then the badge for your footer: its ticket can say coder, designer, agency, host or contributor.

And if you would like to be in the next cut, film one line on your phone and reply to this letter with it. The next video should have real people in it, not AI faces.
Add your name
Mihai Dragomirescu Mihai Dragomirescu
I build Respira for WordPress
Brașov, Romania
A seal with a human thumbprint: sent by a human, read by a human, Brașov A human on the other end
I use AI to help me write and check these emails, the same way you use it on your WordPress sites. When you reply, it is me who reads it and me who answers. Hit reply and tell me what you are building. I would love to see it.

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