A productive week at Respira
Apparently, this is what a productive week looks like when nobody schedules meetings for you.
Respira shipped a new Safety & Security center, tracked the still-unfinished MCP 2026-07-28 release candidate, brought WordPress Full Site Editing (FSE), now usually called the Site Editor, into Canopy, and collected a healthy pile of bug fixes along the way. The four pieces below cover the useful parts.
There was a bigger update away from the changelog too.
In an earlier newsletter i told you about the very ordinary intention that started Respira: i wanted to upgrade the family car. Not a unicorn milestone. Not a funding round. Just a basic thing my family needed, and something i hoped building a useful product could make possible.
On day 255 since launch, it happened.
You made that possible. Everyone who bought Respira, reported a bug, challenged a decision, recommended it to someone, or kept using it while i was still sanding down the rough edges. Thank you. This one means a lot.
1. How to check and fix wp2shell in WordPress (CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030)
The exact affected WordPress versions, what updating does and does not prove, which compromise indicators deserve investigation, and how Respira 8.1 turns a fleet scan into an approval-gated fix and verification receipt.
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2. MCP 2026-07-28 is still a release candidate. What changes for WordPress?
As of 29 July, the final MCP specification has not been published. The release candidate makes stateless connections first-class and adds server discovery. Here is what Respira users need to do now, and what changes after the official TypeScript SDK stabilizes.
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3. How to edit your WordPress site from Slack with Viktor
Add your WordPress site or WooCommerce store to Viktor as a custom MCP server and edit it by typing a message in Slack or Microsoft Teams. Step by step, with the exact link to paste, the access levels worth thinking about, and the shared-channel setup for agencies working with clients.
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4. 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.
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One last founder-shaped request
Respira is still one person. Time spent performing marketing is time i am not fixing the bug you found or building the thing you need next. Real words from people doing real work with Respira are the part of marketing i cannot manufacture. Honestly, they are more useful than anything i could write about myself.
If Respira saved you hours or made you go “wow,” leave an honest review on G2. If you are on a paid plan, upload a screenshot from your dashboard and i will add 1 more site to your plan for as long as you subscribe. You get more room to use Respira; i get to stay heads-down building it.
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Best,
Mihai
P.S. I am closing the remaining lifetime Founder seats soon. Reply if you are interested and want to have a conversation about it.
