Operating emDash safely: migrations, backups and key rotation
How to make an emDash site recoverable: checked database upgrades, backups that actually restore, and changing the encryption key without breaking anything.
emDash security best practice: a practical guide for site owners and builders
What emDash secures for you, what it leaves to you, and the settings that matter most on Cloudflare: sign-in, secrets, plugins, previews, public forms, headers and backups.
Owning your newsletter list on emDash: the email provider as a replaceable pipe
Keep the subscriber list in your own emDash site, and the features MailPoet, The Newsletter Plugin and FluentCRM made popular become small additions.
emDash SEO in practice: what's built in, and the gaps we had to close
What emDash includes for SEO, the gaps a site still has to close, and how an AI agent connected through emDash's MCP server can handle routine SEO work.
emDash Forms, reviewed
emDash Forms reviewed after production use: the admin, sending data to a CRM, alternatives for complex forms, and a comparison with WS Form and Fluent Forms.
What we learned running emDash in production: building emdashnow.com
What it took to run a real publication on emDash and Cloudflare: caching, previews, newsletters, backups and the measured cost of an uncached page.
emDash 1.3: governance, content rights, and faster pages — the maturity curve continues
emDash 1.3 brings readable revision history, a switch to opt out of AI training and faster pages on D1. What each change means for teams running emDash.
What an emDash website actually costs to run: an honest cost model
What an emDash site costs to run: Cloudflare's free plan, Workers Paid from $5 a month, or a VPS, plus the build and maintenance costs that dwarf hosting.
emDash 1.2: the release that closes the WordPress migrator's biggest objection
emDash 1.2 rebuilds the editor and adds native video, a guided domain move and one-command upgrades. Why it removes the main reason WordPress teams waited.
Is emDash production-ready? A clear-eyed verdict at 1.3
Is emDash ready for production? Our independent verdict at version 1.3: the evidence for yes, the honest gaps, and what to do depending on where you sit.
emDash 1.1: the first point release, and what its cadence tells a buyer
emDash 1.1 adds a publishing calendar, isolated code blocks and Microsoft sign-in. Why its release cadence matters more to a buyer than its feature list.
emDash 1.0: how to read Cloudflare's WordPress challenger as a business decision
emDash 1.0 is Cloudflare's stable, open-source WordPress challenger. What the release changes for site owners, buyers and agencies, and where the risk now sits.