skills

Build the site-facing parts of an EmDash CMS project on Astro, including schema and seeds, content queries, Portable Text rendering, menus, taxonomies, widgets, and deployment configuration. Use for EmDash site and theme work; use creating-plugins instead when the task is plugin authoring alone.

Use the EmDash CLI to inspect and manage an EmDash instance from the command line, including content, schema, media, taxonomies, menus, search, authentication, seeds, migrations, generated types, and whole-site export and import.

Create EmDash CMS plugins with sandboxed hooks, routes, storage, content and media APIs, MCP tools, and declarative admin UI, or native React and Astro extensions. Use when scaffolding or implementing an EmDash plugin.

Port a WordPress theme's design and template behavior to an EmDash-powered Astro site. Use for theme migrations, design matching, PHP-template conversion, and CMS wiring. Do not use for WordPress plugin behavior that does not affect the site theme.

Analyze and port WordPress plugin behavior, custom post types, shortcodes, admin workflows, and stored data to current EmDash extension points. Use for WordPress-plugin migrations or when deciding which behavior belongs in an EmDash plugin, site schema, seed, or Astro code. Do not use for visual theme ports without plugin functionality.

Upgrade an existing EmDash project with upgrade-emdash, interpret .emdash/UPGRADE.md, apply required project changes, and verify the package, skill, and migration result. Use when asked to update or upgrade EmDash dependencies. Do not use for an unrelated schema change or a known database migration without a package upgrade.