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.
Latest News
- Telemetry in WordPressThe 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.
- If WordPress.org is not for the community, then we will beThis 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 Mullenweg and Automattic were filing a brief that stated plainly, “wordpress.org is not WordPress”, I was shocked. Like many of the members… continue reading.
- A vision of a distributed package repository in WordPressMany 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 offers is incredibly challenging. AspirePress exists entirely to solve this problem. Our focus is on building a sustainable, distributed, federated model of managing and distributing packages for WordPress. The advantage of… continue reading.