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EmDash
Open-source CMS for Astro, from Cloudflare. Runs on D1, R2 and Workers.
CMS & publishing
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@latestor in the browser playground. - WordPress plugins and themes do not run on EmDash.
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CMS & publishing
EmDash plugins by Gaurav Tiwari
Five free plugins that carry forms, lead magnets, blocks and shortcodes over from WordPress.
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Blog
From the blog
Cloudflare weekly: two email tools, Deno joins, and a local testing tip
Box Ox and EmailFlare for self-hosted email, EmDash 1.0 news, Deno joining Cloudflare, and how to test Cron Triggers locally.
EmDash 1.0 and five Cloudflare-native projects worth watching
Six open projects for Cloudflare developers: the EmDash CMS, Mailflare and Relaybase email, DocFlare AI search, the Appflare app manager and EmDash plugins.
EmDash: Cloudflare's open-source CMS built on Astro
What EmDash is, what it can do, how to try it, and how it fits with Astro, D1 and R2. A plain guide for developers coming from WordPress.
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