{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"This Week in NET","title":"EmDash: The WordPress Successor That Fixes Plugin Security","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d0bce318\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2584,"description":"In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Matt “TK” Taylor (Senior Product Manager) and Matt Kane (Senior Principal Systems Engineer) to discuss EmDash, a new CMS launched by Cloudflare as a modern, serverless alternative inspired by WordPress.\nBuilt on Astro and designed for today’s developer workflows, EmDash combines the familiarity of traditional CMS platforms with a modern architecture: serverless deployment, TypeScript throughout, and a plugin system designed to solve one of WordPress’s biggest challenges — security.\nThe conversation explores why plugin vulnerabilities account for the vast majority of WordPress security issues, and how EmDash addresses that by running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates with tightly scoped permissions. Matt and Matt also discuss how AI agents were used during development, why the project is MIT licensed, and how the CMS is designed from the ground up to work with AI agents through MCP and structured content.\nLater in the episode we see the EmDash playground, how WordPress sites can be imported in minutes, and how developers can start building plugins and extensions today.\nMore info:Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security\nTry out the EmDash admin interface here: https://emdashcms.com/playground \n⏱️ Timestamps\n00:45 — Intro: EmDash launch and April 1 announcement02:09 — What EmDash is and why Cloudflare built it04:07 — Why WordPress architecture struggles on modern infrastructure06:30 — Scaling storage, media, and modern hosting models07:00 — The plugin ecosystem: WordPress’s strength and weakness08:19 — Matt Taylor’s background in CMS and media platforms09:03 — Matt Kane’s work with Astro and Gatsby11:21 — How the idea for EmDash started inside the Astro community13:36 — Building the CMS with AI agents17:21 — Sandbox plugins with Cloudflare Dynamic Workers19:17 — Solving the plugin security problem22:16 — Why EmDash is MIT licensed25:52 — Early feedback...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JEk1CAhFcWIBJOFKIzKfdvQ-zUX6aXTuOCJVJJHruOk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYThl/MjA0YjY3NjRjMzE4/NTdlZTdjMzFjNjll/YTM1YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}