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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!
Browse plugins now
on the AspireExplorer
preview release!

Aspire Explorer

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

Aspire Cloud

Certified FAIR

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FAIR Package Manager Project

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Latest News

  • AspirePress Demo
    by Brent Toderash
    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, give this a watch — it’s fast-paced and under 10 minutes. The FAIR project was announced onstage immediately following this presentation. AspireCloud is the current reference implementation of… continue reading.
  • 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.