
Cloudflare’s new CMS is not a WordPress killer, it’s a WordPress alternative
Cloudflare on Wednesday rolled out EmDash, which it described as “the spiritual successor to WordPress.” The security vendor positioned EmDash as a far more secure site building tool that avoids the extensive cybersecurity problems with WordPress plugins. But the Cloudflare claims go far beyond cybersecurity issues. The vendor is arguing that the very nature of websites in 2026 is sharply different to the kind of website that WordPress was designed to handle. “WordPress powers over 40% of the internet. It is a massive success that has enabled anyone to be a publisher, and created a global community of WordPress developers. But the WordPress open source project will be 24 years old this yea...