Tested guides from bitdoze.com, video walkthroughs from the Bitdoze YouTube channel, and a list of free and paid EmDash themes and plugins.
Step-by-step guides on bitdoze.com, from first install to a deployed site.
Part 3 of the EmDash series: every layer of a custom theme (design tokens, seed.json collections, block types, page routes, menus, widgets, and seeded content) with a real working example.
Install, scaffold, and set up your first site with the admin panel, passkeys, and your first getEmDashCollection query.
An honest review after six months and the 1.0 release: what changed, Cloudflare vs self-hosted VPS deploy, ops footguns, and who it is really for.
Walkthroughs from the Bitdoze channel.
Learn how to build custom themes for Emdash CMS using Astro and autonomous AI coding agents. In this video, I explore the anatomy of an Emdash theme—from blocks, seed data, and styling tokens to database integration.
Read the companion article
Install and set up EmDash on Cloudflare Workers or self-hosted, tour the admin, the MCP server and the plugin system, and see how it compares to WordPress.
Every listing shows whether it is free or paid, and links to where you get it.
Indexes your published content in Cloudflare AI Search and adds a search box to your site.
Sends magic-link sign-in, invite and notification emails through a Cloudflare send_email binding.
The official EmDash landing-page template: hero, features, testimonials, pricing and FAQ blocks on Cloudflare D1 and R2.
Setup, custom themes, plugins and migrations.
Scope 01
A production EmDash site on Workers with D1, R2, a custom domain and analytics in place.
Scope 02
A theme built around your brand, with page blocks your editors can add and reorder.
Scope 03
Hooks, admin settings and API routes for whatever the CMS does not do yet.
EmDash is an Astro-native CMS with a full admin panel. You model content in the admin, and your Astro site queries it. It deploys to Cloudflare Workers or to a Node.js server.
No. Cloudflare Workers with D1 and R2 is one option. EmDash also runs on Node.js with SQLite and local file storage, for example on a VPS. The EmDash review on bitdoze.com compares both.
Each listing carries a Free or Paid badge. Paid entries show the price and link to the seller's page.
I'm Dragos. I write the guides at bitdoze.com and publish the videos on the Bitdoze YouTube channel.