Respira for WordPress is the AI infrastructure layer for WordPress. It lets any AI agent do real work on live WordPress sites safely, with an undo under everything.
WordPress runs roughly two of every five websites, and the work those sites need is moving to AI. Respira is the layer that makes that safe: one protocol between the AI tools professionals already use and the messy reality of real WordPress sites, page builders included.
HOW IT WORKS
Respira ships as a WordPress plugin paired with an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, plus a CLI and SDK for developers. You install the plugin, connect it to your Respira account, and connect the AI tool you already work with. One-click setup exists for all major agents.
From that moment your agent can read, edit and build on your site in plain language. Respira translates every request into the native format of your specific WordPress stack. If your page was built in Elementor, the agent's edit lands as a correct Elementor widget. If it's Divi, it lands as a Divi module. Not raw HTML injected around the builder, but the builder's own internal format, which is why edits render correctly and stay editable in the builder afterwards.
SUPPORTED PAGE BUILDERS (16)
Elementor, Divi 4 and Divi 5, Bricks, Oxygen, Breakdance, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, Visual Composer, Brizy, Thrive Architect, Flatsome, Gutenberg, Spectra, Kadence Blocks, GenerateBlocks and SeedProd.
This multi-builder depth is the hard part most alternatives skip. Each builder stores pages in its own internal format. Respira speaks all of them natively, which took months inside builder internals and is the reason agencies can point an agent at any client site regardless of how it was built.
SUPPORTED AI TOOLS
Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any MCP-compatible client. Respira is neutral infrastructure: you bring your own AI subscription, and Respira never charges for tokens. Switch agents any time, the same tools and the same safety envelope apply to all of them.
SAFE BY DEFAULT
This is the core of the product. Every mechanism exists because AI agents editing live sites without a recovery layer is how client sites break.
Duplicate-before-edit: when an agent changes a page, it works on a duplicate. You preview the original and the duplicate side by side and approve or reject inside the plugin. Original page IDs stay stable, which matters for Meta and Google catalogs.
Snapshot always: a full-fidelity snapshot is captured before every write, automatically. WordPress revisions restore post content but miss builder internals. Respira snapshots capture the builder data too.
One-click rollback: any change is reversible, per edit, per builder. You can undo from the dashboard or simply ask your agent to undo, and it happens instantly.
Approval workflow: nothing publishes without you. Forward a client ticket to your agent, review what it built, approve, invoice.
Audit trail: every change shows exactly what changed, when and by whom, human or agent.
WOOCOMMERCE, BY PROMPT
The WooCommerce add-on brings 87 tools for running a store in natural language: products, variations, attributes and swatches, brands, coupons, customers, orders and refunds. Refunds are dry-run by default, money moves only when you explicitly say so, capped to the refundable total. Payment gateways, shipping zones and tax settings are read-only by design. Bulk pricing operations preview before writing and roll back to any snapshot. The add-on also covers the official WooCommerce Subscriptions, Bookings and Memberships extensions, tested against the real plugins, and includes storefront design intelligence: the only WooCommerce MCP that can edit product cards and shop layouts inside Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Flatsome and the rest.
AGENT-READY COMMERCE
AI assistants already recommend products to millions of shoppers, and they can only sell what they can read. Respira makes WooCommerce stores readable and shoppable for AI: product feeds in six formats (Google Shopping XML, OpenAI JSONL, Meta, Pinterest, TikTok, CSV), a store llms.txt at your site root, an AI-readiness score from 0 to 100 with the exact failing products and gaps, and signed cart links with order attribution so you can see the revenue AI assistants send you. The readable half also ships as Respira ARC, a free standalone plugin on WordPress.org.
THE TOOL CATALOG
290+ MCP tools cover the full surface of a WordPress site: pages, posts, custom post types, taxonomies, menus, media, users, plugins and options, element-level builder editing (find, update, move, duplicate, reorder), full page building from declarative structures, SEO analysis, readability scoring, performance metrics, Core Web Vitals, structured data checks and ADA/WCAG accessibility scanning with automated fixes. 150+ WordPress Abilities are registered and browsable, and 35 open-source skills package complete workflows agents run end to end, including full-site migrations between builders (Elementor to Bricks, Divi to Gutenberg, WPBakery to Bricks and more), technical debt audits, internal link building and mobile experience reports.
TEAMS AND CLIENT WORK
Every plan includes your first team member free, forever. Beyond that, invite as many people as you want, with access levels and site packs that group client sites so a colleague sees only what they should. Billing is fair by design: at the end of the month you pay only for members who were actually active, and if nobody was active there is no team invoice. Respira Earn adds client billing intelligence: AI cost per site, per tool, with your multiplier on top, so you can bill client work from a position of knowledge.
WHO IT'S FOR
WordPress agencies running many client sites, who delegate work to agents, review every change, prove what changed and bill it
Freelance developers who live in Claude Code or Cursor and want their AI to handle WordPress directly instead of copy-pasting code
Vibe coders building real sites at the speed of thought, with a safety net under every experiment
Site owners who want AI assistance without risking live content
Professionals don't want a chatbox inside wp-admin with no context. They want the AI tools they already use to do the work, with a human approving what goes live. Respira is built for that workflow. Agencies have said Respira is the reason they stayed on WordPress instead of migrating off it.
WHAT YOU CAN SAY TO YOUR AGENT
"Update all products in the Summer Sale category to 20 percent off, keep regular prices." "Change the hero section on these five client pages to the new offer, show me the duplicates first." "Run an accessibility scan and fix the missing alt text." "Migrate this page from WPBakery to Gutenberg." "Undo the last change on the pricing page." The agent does the work, you approve it, the site stays safe.
WHAT MAKES RESPIRA DIFFERENT
Most WordPress AI tools put a chat interface inside the admin or wrap the REST API. Respira is infrastructure for external agents, with three things alternatives don't have: native write depth across 16 page builders, a complete safety and recovery envelope (duplicate-first, snapshots, approval, rollback, audit), and neutrality across every AI tool. It coexists with the official WordPress and WooCommerce MCP efforts rather than fighting them, uses its own routes with its own safety envelope, and contributes free plugins to the WordPress.org ecosystem.
TRUST
EU data residency. A PII-safe audit log. Sensitive commerce settings read-only by design. No direct database access required, everything runs through the API. You bring your own AI license, so your content flows through the AI vendor you chose, not one that was chosen for you. If your subscription lapses there is a 7-day grace period and your data remains safe.
Built independently by a solo founder, in public, with live telemetry published at respira.press/live. Independent AI infrastructure for WordPress, not affiliated with Automattic or WordPress.org.
Average Rating: 4.7/5.0
Total Reviews: 12
How Do G2 Users Rate Respira for Wordpress?
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Has the product been a good partner in doing business?: 8.9/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
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Backups: 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)
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Theme and Plugin Management: 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.3/10)
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Analytics: 10.0/10 (Category avg: 7.9/10)
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