Hot take: WordPress usually isnโt the problem. The 15-plugin stack around it is.
After 7 years of agency work, I got tired of rebuilding the same messy setup on every client site.
Thatโs why I built Classic Monks.
What part of your #WordPress stack feels most replaceable?
Cloudflare just launched their own CMS, EmDash and it's basically WordPress but rebuilt from scratch.
No PHP, fully serverless and built on Astro!
Still v0.1.0 so it's rough around the edges, how far it goes really depends on early adopters. But I'm curious to give it a spin.
Announcing: EmDash, the WordPress spiritual successor built for the modern web.
TypeScript. Serverless. MIT licensed. x402 for agent-era monetization. MCP server built in. Deploy to Cloudflare or anywhere Node.js runs.
Imports your existing WordPress site in minutes.
npm create emdash@latest
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Google Turbo Quant running Locally in Atomic Chat
MacBook Air M4 16 GB
Model: QWEN3.5-9B
Context window: 50000
Summarising 20000 words in just seconds..
You can do 3x larger context window, processing 3x faster than before!
@MrDaveFoy Congrats on closing the Bricks Accelerator cohort, Dave. 38% conversion on a $467 product is seriously impressive! ๐
Never got the chance but huge thanks for mentioning Classic Monks in your Dec 5, 2025 newsletter, it brought us 33 new customers! Truly grateful ๐
@wordpressdotcom just launched an official @claudeai Connector - the first of its kind for a WordPress host.
Connect Claude to your site in a few clicks. It can pull real site data: traffic, comments, content audits, and more.
Built on our MCP + OAuth 2.1 foundation, in partnership with @AnthropicAI.
https://t.co/TcfEWIhRG1
Thank you, Raju โ means a lot coming from you. Iโve been building Classic Monks as a Core Stack WordPress Plugin for the past year with a simple goal: reduce the plugin stack without adding bloat.
Itโs now under 2.5 MB and replaces dozens of premium add-ons across performance, security, WooCommerce, and Bricks โ all in one toolkit that stays lightweight and predictable.
Grateful for the support and for sharing it with everyone. ๐
WordPress folks, I haven't shared any #BlackFriday deals here, but this one is something I use, and from a developer I know and trust, @joychetry.
Check out ClassicMonks - an impressive toolkit of a plugin that can replace many premium plugins while being lightweight.
https://t.co/QJWOHnwHBX
@sinanisler@benswrite MoR like Dodo Payments, Lemomsqueey (stripe), Polar will be a better choice + with MoR you can save a lot of time when it comes to compliances and Taxations.