WordPress.com supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing AI assistants like Claude to securely access and interact with your WordPress.com sites, posts, comments, and settings. In this guide, you will learn how to enable MCP access, configure AI clients, and understand the capabilities and limitations of this integration.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs (Large Language Models). Connecting your AI agent to WordPress.com allows you to interact with your WordPress.com account and websites using the natural language interfaces that these AI applications provide.
At a high level, here’s how MCP adds context to your AI requests:
- You ask your AI agent for some information about your WordPress.com account or sites
- The AI agent uses an LLM to understand the request and determines that it needs more context. It checks if there are MCP tools it can use to enable that context.
- It finds the right MCP tool and attempts to request it. The AI agent asks for your permission to make that request.
- Once you give permission, the MCP tool request is made, and the specific data the tool can provide is returned. That data is then included in the request to the LLM.
- The LLM uses your original request and the context from the MCP tool to generate its response.
The MCP server never shares any data with the AI model unless you explicitly choose to send it. It also does not use the data from the MCP tools to train AI models; the data is used only once as part of the original request.
Important: MCP access is currently read-only. AI assistants cannot create, edit, or delete content on your WordPress.com sites.
To enable MCP access for your WordPress.com account, follow these steps:
- Visit your account settings.
- In the left sidebar, click “MCP” (or navigate directly to wordpress.com/me/mcp).
- Review the permissions and capabilities that will be granted to each MCP tool.
- Toggle the switch to “Enable MCP Access.”
- Once enabled, you can click on the “Configure MCP client” button to set up a secure connection to AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and more.
Once enabled, compatible AI clients will be able to access your WordPress.com data when you interact with them.
WordPress.com gives you fine-grained control over MCP access. You can manage permissions at both the tool level and site level.
You can disable specific MCP Tools while keeping others enabled:
- Go to wordpress.com/me/mcp.
- Scroll to the “Available MCP Tools” section.
- Toggle off any individual tools you want to disable.
You can disable all account MCP tool access for a site:
- Go to wordpress.com/me/mcp.
- Scroll to the “Site-Specific MCP settings” section.
- Select a site.
- Toggle off the MCP Access.
For developers and technical documentation about the WordPress.com MCP implementation, please refer to the following links: