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What is AspirePress?

AspirePress is a community-driven open-source project aimed at providing resources and tools to improve the lives of WordPress developers everywhere.

We are focused on building a package mirror to freely distribute plugins and themes to WordPress users, no matter who or where they are.

Our Public Repo is Live!
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Aspire Explorer

AspireCloud powers updates for AspireUpdate and the new FAIR Package Management plugin

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Latest News

  • Aspiring to FAIR Package Management
    by Brent Toderash
    Word of the announcement of the FAIR Package Manager at the AltCtrlOrg side-event to WCEU in Basel, Switzerland has traveled quickly. The announcement took place immediately following Matt Leach’s demo of AspireUpdate and AspireExplorer, immediately before a Q&A session whose topic was suddenly focused completely on the FAIR announcement, partly due to the excitement in the room and partly due to the fact that the panel participants (including Joost de Valk) were already familiar with… continue reading.
  • “Everest” (1.0 is not just a number.)
    by Brent Toderash
    As this post goes up on our blog, Matt Leach is taking the stage at the Alt-Ctrl event in Basel, Switzerland. He’ll be representing the AspirePress team there to demo something we are super-proud of — and we’ve put a lot of work into it. Today we are pleased to announce the release of AspireUpdate 1.0, a WordPress plugin that enables site owners to update their software from the repository of their choice — whether… continue reading.
  • Telemetry in WordPress
    by Sarah Savage
    The recent discussions about telemetry and data in WordPress are not surprising. While anyone who has spend time with the API code knows that a great amount of data is transmitted to the WordPress repository, seeing it weaponized is something that is shocking to many in the community. We’re also shocked at this abuse of the data, and we are sad to see that it’s being used in this way. Telemetry is a vital part… continue reading.