Notes from migrating WordPress sites to Astro + EmDash, building MCP-editable kits, and modernizing marketing-team workflows.https://emdashkit.dev/en-ushttps://emdashkit.dev/blog/six-weeks-evaluating-emdash-production/https://emdashkit.dev/blog/six-weeks-evaluating-emdash-production/For the agency owner who's read all the EmDash hype and wants the boring version: what we measured across six weeks of building, evaluating, and pitching EmDash work — before any client site went live. The bugs, the gaps, the things we'd wait on, and the things that already work.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTemdashemdashproductionreviewevaluationagencyhttps://emdashkit.dev/blog/static-site-to-emdash-when-to-rebuild/https://emdashkit.dev/blog/static-site-to-emdash-when-to-rebuild/For the marketing lead at a small SaaS whose 30-page hand-coded HTML site has become a dev bottleneck: when migrating to a CMS makes sense, when starting fresh on EmDash + Astro is faster, and the surprisingly common third option — leave it alone.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTmigrationsstatic-siteemdashmigrationcmsastrohttps://emdashkit.dev/blog/lighthouse-95-cloudflare-pages-performance-budget/https://emdashkit.dev/blog/lighthouse-95-cloudflare-pages-performance-budget/For the agency owner who keeps losing the 'why is your site faster than ours' argument with prospects: the Lighthouse CI budget config, the JS-shipping rules, and the image pipeline that ship Lighthouse 95+ on every page on Cloudflare Pages.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTastrolighthouseperformancecloudflare-pagesastrocore-web-vitalshttps://emdashkit.dev/blog/astro-content-collections-emdash/https://emdashkit.dev/blog/astro-content-collections-emdash/For agency leads building client microsites and developers shipping greenfield Astro projects: how Astro's content collections and EmDash's typed content types compose into a marketing site your client's marketing team can edit through Claude — without writing two stacks.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTastroastroemdashcontent-collectionscmstypescripthttps://emdashkit.dev/blog/building-your-first-emdash-plugin/https://emdashkit.dev/blog/building-your-first-emdash-plugin/For Cloudflare Workers developers and the EmDash early-adopter community: the exact scaffold, schema, permissions manifest, and admin UI we used to ship our first production EmDash plugin in a week.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTemdashemdashpluginscloudflare-workerstutorialhttps://emdashkit.dev/blog/vibecoding-marketing-site-with-emdash/https://emdashkit.dev/blog/vibecoding-marketing-site-with-emdash/For developers who already live in Cursor and Claude — why WordPress is structurally hostile to your workflow, and what a vibecode-native CMS actually feels like.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTvibecodingvibecodingclaudecursormcpai-firstemdashhttps://emdashkit.dev/blog/ga4-gtm-utm-on-astro-emdash/https://emdashkit.dev/blog/ga4-gtm-utm-on-astro-emdash/For agencies and marketing leads tired of analytics that work in October and break by January — the exact GTM container shape, UTM cookie pattern, and CSP rules that don't rot.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTanalyticsga4gtmutmastroanalyticscloudflarehttps://emdashkit.dev/blog/wordpress-vs-emdash-comparison/https://emdashkit.dev/blog/wordpress-vs-emdash-comparison/For the in-house marketing lead or agency PM trying to decide whether to migrate this quarter — the honest comparison across editor UX, AI compatibility, performance, cost, and ecosystem.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTemdashwordpressemdashcms-comparisonreviewastrohttps://emdashkit.dev/blog/wordpress-to-astro-emdash-migration-playbook/https://emdashkit.dev/blog/wordpress-to-astro-emdash-migration-playbook/For developers and agencies running 20–80-page WordPress marketing sites — the exact four-week sequence we use, with the audit checklist, the redirect template, and the Search Console checks.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTmigrationswordpressastroemdashmigrationcloudflareseohttps://emdashkit.dev/blog/why-wordpress-to-emdash-2026/https://emdashkit.dev/blog/why-wordpress-to-emdash-2026/For agency owners and SMB marketing leads watching their devs drown in plugin maintenance: here's why we moved off WordPress this year, and what we moved to.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTmigrationswordpressemdashastrocmsai