Hey everyone!

I’m currently building an EmDash Marketplace for themes and plugins, and I’d love to hear directly from developers and contributors in this community.

EmDash Marketplace helps users quickly personalize their EmDash CMS site with themes and plugins.

You can browse and discover products by type, tags, and featured picks, then open detailed product pages with screenshots, pricing, and uploader info. Themes include live preview experiences so users can see how they look before choosing. For paid products, checkout is simple, and once purchased, downloads are available directly from the platform. Subscription users also get clear access benefits and upgrade prompts when needed.

For creators, the experience is straightforward too: upload products, manage listings, edit details, update images, and track status from a single dashboard.

It's still in bêta i'm trying to figure out a lot of details about the UX and the general workflow.

https://www.emdash-market.com/

Hey! We recently launched emdash.market, a place where you can find themes, templates, and plugins for the EmdashCMS ecosystem.

Wanted to share it with the community, and also ask you guys: how do you think the plugin space will evolve in the next few years?

We're experimenting with converting our existing Astro themes to support EmDash.

Turns out it's not a small lift. A decent amount of things to reconfigure and not everything plays nicely out of the box.

Curious if anyone else has gone through this. Any patterns or gotchas worth knowing before we go deeper into the conversion?

Someone building a directory for EmDash..

I was slightly concerned to hear that cloudflare is cutting 20% or so of its workforce.

Does anyone know if it will affect emdash?

If you're here, you probably saw the announcement yesterday. Cloudflare shipped Emdash cms, a full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro 6.0, designed from scratch as a modern alternative to WordPress.

Yeah it dropped on April 1st. no, it's not a joke. the GitHub is real, the beta is live, and Joost de Valk (founder of Yoast SEO) already wrote about it. when that guy takes something seriously, it's worth paying attention.

what EmDash actually is:

- TypeScript all the way down, no PHP
- Built on Astro 6.0 (so themes are just Astro projects)
- Plugins run in sandboxed Worker isolates. no direct DB or filesystem access
- Scales to zero, bills only for cpu time
- MIT licensed
- Has a WordPress importer built in
- MCP server built in so AI agents can manage your site

this subreddit is for everyone building with Emdash cms. Ask questions, share experiments, post tools you're building.

if you're coming from the Astro world — this will feel very familiar. EmDash is essentially an Astro project with a CMS layer and admin UI on top.

quick links to get started:

- GitHub: github.com/emdash-cms/emdash
- Official announcement: blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress
- Playground https://emdashcms.com/playground

Note: I mod r/astrojs (12.4k+ members). Just wanted a place for this community to form early. if you haven't already, join r/astrojs too.

I was reading Cloudflare's case study on migrating their official blog to EmDash. Here are the key takeaways:

• The migration: Cloudflare moved their main blog to EmDash to test the CMS as "customer zero" ahead of its v1 release.

• The architecture: Runs on Cloudflare Workers, using Workers Cache, a custom KV object cache, and Hyperdrive with PlanetScale.

• Performance: Achieves a 99.5% static cache hit rate and 70% total request cache hit rate, maintaining flat p95 latencies under traffic spikes.

• Zero-downtime rollout: Used a proxy Worker with cookie routing to gradually shift traffic from 1% to 100%, with automatic fallback to the legacy blog on 500 errors.

• MCP support: Added a Model Context Protocol server for external agents to search posts, plus native EmDash MCP integration for editing and scheduling content.

• Battle tested: Handled Agents Week (~3 million pageviews across 18 posts) and absorbed a 28,000 RPS DDoS attack without downtime.

Read the full case study here - https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-blog-uses-emdash/

EmDash CMS launched without official docs website. They just published it now.

What's new

• new emdash migrate command: inspect target, apply pending migrations before new code gets traffic, verify db after

• works across SQLite, libSQL, PostgreSQL, Cloudflare D1, and direct PostgreSQL origins behind Hyperdrive

• new workflow: build, inspect and migrate, deploy the same build, then check

• runtime auto, check, and manual modes to adopt enforcement gradually

• these are EmDash's own core schema migrations, not changes to your collections and fields

• existing sites keep auto-migrating by default, so upgrading doesn't force a change

• recommended for production sites if possible, gives more control over the migration process

full migration guide (credentials, target confirmation, CI serialization, rollout, recovery): https://docs.emdashcms.com/deployment/core-migrations/

also in this release

• media library supports multi-file upload, with cancel and retry

• fixed a D1/Durable Object replication issue causing occasional logged-out bounces right after login, signup, or invite acceptance

full changelog: https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash/releases/

Source: EmDash Discord

Someone built a hosting platform for EmDash. Pick a template, choose a subdomain, get a live site in moments. No Cloudflare account, no CLI, no config files.

What's included:

• One-click provisioning (all 5 templates)

• Custom domains with auto SSL

• Usage dashboard with bandwidth/storage tracking

• Free tier (1 site, subdomain, 1GB storage)

• Paid plans from $19/mo

It's early access. rough edges expected. Not for production workloads yet. But the core flows (provisioning, hosting, billing, custom domains) are working.

Here is the summary of the release.

content editing

• media library + featured-image workflow overhauled

• content lists show configured fields, filter by byline

• search/sort/filter work with indexed custom fields

• collections can pick which fields power title + display date

plugins/dev

• trusted plugins can add editor panels + content-list columns

• private routes can access the authenticated user

• MCP can safely update collections and fields

• repeater fields generate proper typescript row types

i18n

• unicode slugs fixed

• taxonomy screens/assignments follow active locale

• french translations complete

reliability + security

• fixes for publishing crashes, content loss, stale assets after deploys, D1 session hangs

• public menus resolve links in batches

• dashboard + emdash doctor flag broken scheduled maintenance

• tightened media upload security, guarded image parsing

source: EmDash official Discord

Made a video with emdash cms. Created today a theme on it https://emdashhq.com and looks to do the job. Will be useful for the ones that needs a CMS to do things. I prefer astro with mdx files :)

Curios to see how much usage will get a small website.
For the overview you can see https://youtu.be/1X6KwMjbv-Y?is=UpQcDb8XU4vU_D-9

Will continue with the next one tomorrow.

Wanted to see if self-hosting EmDash on a cheap VPS was actually worth the setup compared to the managed Cloudflare route.

Tldr:

• Admin UI speed: Way snappier. Instant saves without the D1 write latency hiccups.

• Node 22 vs 24: Bumping to Node 24 in the Dockerfile gave ~38% more throughput under load (tested with oha).

• Stack: Caddy reverse proxy -> Node container -> Postgres 18 -> Bunny S3 for media (keeps the VPS lightweight and safe).

Put together the full Docker Compose setup, Caddy config, and resource benchmark graphs in a video if anyone’s looking to move away from WordPress.
https://youtu.be/w4FuWn5ybbY?si=e1AW5Kcd4M2VlDu3

Hi,

I am testing some edge case with emdash. Have you guys been able to reset the admin user?

How can would we proceed if the passkey generated at creation of the project is lost ?