Cloud and security company Cloudflare has unveiled an open-source content management system (CMS) called EmDash aimed at being an alternative to WordPress, SiliconANGLE reported on April 2 (local time).

Cloudflare said EmDash was designed for serverless and edge environments. It applies a structure that separates plugin privileges. It focuses on deploying and operating websites on distributed infrastructure.

Cloudflare is targeting the WordPress plugin model. The company said plugins can have broad access to the core system and data, and that plugins account for most WordPress vulnerabilities.

Cloudflare explained that EmDash isolates plugins in a sandbox environment and controls each plugin’s access scope through explicit permissions, preventing a breach of a single plugin from spreading across the system.

On the operations side, it provides functions in which AI agents handle content migration, structural reorganization and schema changes programmatically. It also supports context and interfaces to automate repetitive tasks such as updating content fields, restructuring data and adjusting existing site structures.

EmDash is provided as open-source software under the MIT license and can be downloaded from GitHub.