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EmDash for Astro Developers
Add WordPress-style CMS features to your Astro site with EmDash
Official Docs
Official EmDash documentation imported into this site.
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Astro for WordPress Developers
Learn Astro fundamentals through the lens of WordPress concepts you already know
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EmDash for WordPress Developers
A guide to EmDash's features and concepts for developers familiar with WordPress
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Architecture
The mental model for building with EmDash — an Astro integration with a live, editable content model.
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Collections & Fields
Define content types with collections and fields—supported field types, validation, and relationships.
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Content Model
How you shape and evolve your content model in EmDash — collections, fields, runtime changes, types, and seeds.
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Architecture (internals)
How EmDash works under the hood, for people contributing to EmDash itself.
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Documentation Style Guide
The writing, structure, and code-sample conventions for EmDash documentation.
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EmDash Docs MCP
Connect your AI coding assistant to the EmDash documentation so it can answer questions and find the right pattern from real docs.
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Atmosphere Login
Sign in to EmDash with an Atmosphere account — the open-network identity behind Bluesky and the wider AT Protocol ecosystem.
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Authentication
Passkey-first authentication with pluggable providers for GitHub, Google, and the Atmosphere.
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Internationalization (i18n)
Translate content into multiple languages with per-locale publishing, slugs, and automatic fallback.
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Page Layouts
Let editors choose different layouts for individual pages using a template field.
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Querying Content
Use getEmDashCollection and getEmDashEntry to retrieve content in your templates.
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EmDash
The Astro-native CMS. A modern successor to WordPress with type-safe content, plugin extensibility, and portable deployment.
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Introduction to EmDash
Learn what EmDash is, how it works, and whether it's right for your project.
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Migrate from WordPress
Import your WordPress content into EmDash with a step-by-step guide.
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Porting WordPress Plugins
Convert WordPress plugins to EmDash plugins using the Plugin API
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Page fragments
Inject scripts, stylesheets, or HTML into rendered public pages — native plugins only.
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Portable Text rendering components
Provide Astro components that render plugin-defined Portable Text block types on the public site.
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React admin pages and widgets
Ship custom React components for plugin admin pages and dashboard widgets.
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Your first native plugin
Build a native EmDash plugin with the descriptor + createPlugin pattern.
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API Routes
Expose REST endpoints from your sandboxed plugin for the admin UI and external integrations.
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Capabilities and security
Declare what your plugin needs, and understand what the sandbox enforces.
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Choosing a plugin format
Pick between sandboxed and native plugins before you start writing code.
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The emdash-plugin CLI
init, build, dev, bundle, validate, publish — the plugin authoring toolchain.
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The plugin manifest
Reference for emdash-plugin.jsonc — identity, trust contract, profile fields, and publisher pinning.
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Migrating to the plugin CLI
Breaking changes for sandboxed-plugin authors, and how to update your plugin.
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Bundling and publishing
Bundle a sandboxed plugin and publish it to the EmDash plugin registry.
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Settings
Per-plugin configuration through the KV store, exposed in the admin UI as a Block Kit page.
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Upgrading plugins on your site
Breaking changes for sites that install EmDash plugins, and how to adapt your project.
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MCP Server Reference
Protocol details, tool specifications, and OAuth configuration for the MCP server.
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Porting WordPress Themes
Convert WordPress themes to EmDash themes using a structured approach