# EmDash

Open-source CMS for Astro, from Cloudflare. Runs on D1, R2 and Workers.

- Category: CMS & publishing
- Website: https://emdashcms.com/
- Source code: https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash
- License: MIT
- Made by: EmDash project (https://x.com/EmDashCMS)
- Built on: Workers, D1, R2
- Page: https://workerdock.app/directory/emdash/
- Independent listing in the WorkerDock directory of Cloudflare apps and projects (https://workerdock.app/directory/). Not affiliated with the project or with Cloudflare, Inc.

EmDash is an open-source CMS written in TypeScript and built on Astro. The project calls itself the spiritual successor to WordPress, and it is brought to you by Cloudflare.

## What it does

- A familiar admin with pages, posts, media, menus, widgets and taxonomies, plus a WordPress importer.
- Content types you define yourself, with TypeScript types generated from them.
- An MCP server, a REST API and a CLI, so scripts and AI agents can manage content too.
- Plugins that declare the permissions they need and run in sandboxes.

## Good to know

- It is an Astro integration, so it runs inside your own Astro site.
- It is designed for Cloudflare (D1 for the database, R2 for media, Workers for compute). It also runs on Node.js with SQLite.
- Try it with `npm create emdash@latest` or in the browser playground.
- WordPress plugins and themes do not run on EmDash.