Matt Mullenweg provides critical feedback on EmDash, a new CMS from Cloudflare presented as a “spiritual successor” to WordPress. He argues EmDash lacks the true spirit of WordPress’s open, democratized publishing and notes its plugin security claims fall short, while recognizing EmDash’s solid engineering and strong Cloudflare integration. Mullenweg emphasizes WordPress’s unique community and open-source ethos, suggesting that true innovation should build on first principles rather than mimic existing approaches.
EmDash Feedback
