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About WordPress MCP

WordPress MCP is the official Model Context Protocol adapter for WordPress that bridges the Abilities API to MCP, enabling AI agents to discover and invoke WordPress plugin, theme, and core abilities programmatically. Maintained by Automattic and now part of the WordPress core project (shipping with WordPress 6.9), it lets AI tools like Claude Desktop, Cursor, and VS Code Copilot interact with WordPress sites through natural language. The adapter supports two transport modes: HTTP transport implementing the MCP 2025-06-18 specification for remote communication, and stdio transport for local development and CLI integration. WordPress abilities are exposed as MCP tools, executable functions that AI agents call to fetch data, update posts, run diagnostics, or manage site settings. Access controls follow WordPress user roles, so an editor-level connection cannot perform admin-only operations. WordPress.com's hosted MCP integration currently provides read-only access for surfacing site information and insights, with write access coming in a future update. For self-hosted WordPress, the MCP adapter plugin provides full read-write capabilities with granular permission checking. The Plugin Directory also offers a dedicated MCP server with tools for validating readme files, checking plugin review status, and submitting plugins. The adapter is open source on GitHub and is becoming the canonical plugin for MCP integration in the WordPress ecosystem.