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We spent two days on EmDash — Cloudflare's open-source CMS that many call the “WordPress killer”. We built a full blog with taxonomies, a shop with orders and a PWA, and an AI agent did all of it through the built-in MCP server without touching the admin panel. This is what worked, where we struggled, and what “free plan” really means.
An agent reads sources, writes the article, translates it, draws a cover and publishes — while humans make decisions. Our pipeline, explained.
Workers compute, D1 stores data, R2 stores files. How the trio powers an EmDash site and what fits in the free plan.
A practical guide: content audit, schema design, import, redirects and launch — step by step.
WordPress is familiar, but its maintenance cost and technical debt grow every year. We compare it with EmDash across hosting, security, cost and editor experience.
