{"id":1751,"date":"2026-04-11T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:29:04","slug":"emdash-a-spiritual-successor-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/emdash-a-spiritual-successor-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"EmDash &#8211; A Spiritual Successor to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard about this via Steve Gibson&#8217;s Security Now podcast on TWiT. It&#8217;s a new CMS\/blogging platform based around WordPress (though not using any WordPress code) and they&#8217;re making a big noise about the way it&#8217;s more secure by design and how plugins are all sandboxed but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s written using and designed to use AI agents, so they can basically fuck off. I&#8217;ll stick with WordPress and use a minimal number of plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to take a look at their blog post out of curiosity or interest (I&#8217;m not going to use code written by AI but I&#8217;m not going to tell anyone else what to do) you&#8217;ll find that <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/emdash-wordpress\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/emdash-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard about this via Steve Gibson&#8217;s Security Now podcast on TWiT. It&#8217;s a new CMS\/blogging platform based around WordPress (though not using any WordPress code) and they&#8217;re making a big noise about the way it&#8217;s more secure by design &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/emdash-a-spiritual-successor-to-wordpress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}