Connect AI Agents
to WordPress

MCP (Model Context Protocol) lets AI assistants interact with your WordPress site - creating content, managing media, querying data, and more.

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What is MCP

MCP is like a universal translator between AI assistants and your website. It lets AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT actually do things on your WordPress site - not just talk about it.

AI Agent
AI Agent
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MCP
MCP
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WordPress
WordPress

🔧 Technical details: How MCP actually works →

What can you do?

Bulk Content
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Write 10 blog posts about Japanese travel destinations, each 500 words with SEO meta descriptions
⚡ create_post × 10 with meta...
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Done! Created 10 posts as drafts:
  1. Hidden Temples of Kyoto
  2. Street Food Guide: Osaka
  3. Winter in Hokkaido...
All include meta descriptions. Ready to review!
Find & Fix
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Find all posts with broken images or missing alt text and fix them
⚡ list_posts, analyze_image...
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Found 23 images missing alt text. I've generated descriptions using vision AI and updated them. Also found 3 broken image links - want me to remove them?
Translate
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Translate all my English posts to French and publish them
⚡ list_posts, translate, create_post...
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Translated 47 posts to French. Created as drafts in the FR category. Preserved all formatting, images, and internal links. Ready for review!
Site Management
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Update all plugins, check for security issues, and clean up unused media
⚡ list_plugins, update_plugin, scan_media...
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Updated 8 plugins. Found 1 with a known vulnerability (Contact Form 7 v5.2) - updated to safe version. Identified 342 unused images (1.2GB). Want me to move them to trash?

With MCP, AI agents can do almost anything on your WordPress site: create and edit posts in bulk, translate content to any language, analyze and optimize images, manage comments and users, query your database directly, install and update plugins, customize themes, check SEO scores and analytics, schedule social media posts, clean up unused media, and much more. If there's a tool for it, AI can use it.

Choose Your Path

How you add MCP depends on where your WordPress site is hosted:

Self-Hosted
Self-Hosted

Self-Hosted WordPress

Your own server or hosting

Running WordPress on your own server? You'll need a plugin to add MCP support.

🔌 Requires a plugin to enable MCP
🎯 More control over tools and access
🧩 Can extend with additional plugins
See Options Below ↓
Hosted
WordPress.com

WordPress.com

Automattic's hosted platform

Automattic has built MCP directly into WordPress.com. If you're on a paid plan, you already have it!

✓ Built-in, no plugins needed
✓ Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor
⚠ Requires paid WordPress.com plan
WordPress.com Docs →

Self-Hosted Options

Recommended

AI Engine

by Meow Apps

Who is this for?

Anyone who wants MCP to work out of the box. Install, set a token, connect your AI - done.

Pros

  • Works out of the box
  • Posts, pages, media, comments, users
  • Database queries, plugin management (Pro)
  • Easy hooks to add custom tools
  • Supports latest MCP protocol

Cons

  • Advanced tools require Pro
  • Abilities API support coming
Setup Tutorial →

MCP Adapter

by Automattic

Who is this for?

Developers who want full control. You code your own plugin to register tools via the Abilities API.

Pros

  • Official WordPress package
  • Full control over abilities
  • Abilities API in WP Core
  • Free and open source

Cons

  • Requires coding your own plugin
  • No built-in tools included
  • More complex setup
Setup Tutorial →

Plugins that add MCP tools

Browse plugins that extend your AI agent's capabilities

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