AspirePress

06/11/2025

New Post: AspirePress Demo

At the recent AltCtrl-Org event in Basel, Switzerland, our own Matt Leach did a quick demo of AspireUpdate and AspireExplorer, both of which connect to AspireCloud to browse WordPress packages available for install and update. If you missed it and haven't downloaded AspireUpdate or the FAIR plugin,....

06/10/2025

New Post: Aspiring to FAIR Package Management https://aspirepress.org/aspiring-to-fair-package-management

12/22/2024

It’s a beautiful thing when your MVP has reached 100% complete. It may not be perfect, but it’s an achievement!

10/25/2024

AspirePress is incredibly excited to announce that we are in partnership with Fastly to provide CDN, WAF and compute services to the repository we are building!

Fastly had no hesitation about supporting us, even when we were just a one-person operation. They stepped up and we are thankful for their dedication to open source!

10/24/2024

New Post: If WordPress.org is not for the community, then we will be

This post, written by our founder Sarah Savage, is her speaking on her feelings about the vision she has for WordPress, the AspirePress future, and the ways in which we can serve the community. It reflects her views, and her commitments to the community. When I saw the news that lawyers for Matt Mul...

10/24/2024

New Post: A vision of a distributed package repository in WordPress

Many if not most WordPress users are aware now of the challenge that having a single-point-of-failure in the package ecosystem provides. Even though WordPress users are (currently) able to upload plugins directly through the user interface, distributing a plugin outside the repository that .org offe...