WordPress MCP Server
WordPress MCP server enabling AI agents to interact with WordPress sites — creating, reading, updating, and deleting posts and pages, managing media, handling comments, accessing user and taxonomy data, and integrating WordPress content management into agent-driven content creation and publishing workflows.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
Application Password auth. HTTPS required. Official Automattic MCP. Use editor user not admin. Store password in env var.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
An agent needs to create or manage content on a WordPress site — for AI-assisted blogging, automated content pipelines, or WordPress site administration.
Avoid When
You use a different CMS platform, or your WordPress site doesn't have REST API access enabled.
Use Cases
- • Drafting and publishing blog posts from AI content creation agents
- • Managing WordPress media library from content management agents
- • Automating content updates and revisions from editorial workflow agents
- • Retrieving and analyzing post performance from analytics agents
- • Managing WordPress comments and moderation from community agents
- • Bulk content operations across WordPress sites from automation agents
Not For
- • Non-WordPress CMS platforms (Drupal, Ghost, Contentful require different MCPs)
- • WordPress.com free tier (requires Business plan or self-hosted for API access)
- • Teams without WordPress REST API or Application Password configured
Interface
Authentication
WordPress Application Passwords (recommended for self-hosted) or OAuth2 via WordPress.com for hosted. Application Passwords available in WordPress 5.6+. Generate from WordPress admin under user profile.
Pricing
WordPress software is free and open source. Self-hosted WordPress has full API access. WordPress.com requires Business plan ($25/month) for REST API. MCP server is free open source from Automattic.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Application Password must be generated per-user in WordPress admin dashboard
- ⚠ WordPress REST API must be enabled (enabled by default in WP 5.6+)
- ⚠ Permalink structure must be enabled (non-plain) for REST API to work properly
- ⚠ WordPress.com vs self-hosted have different authentication flows
- ⚠ Published posts are immediately public — use draft status for staged content
- ⚠ Automattic-maintained MCP — higher quality than average community MCP
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.