With a WordPress MCP server, Claude, ChatGPT and your own agents work directly in WordPress, with limited permissions and approval by your editorial team.
entity 360VIER GmbH
type Organization | Digital agency
location Groß-Umstadt near Frankfurt and Cologne
group Friends Digital Group
page WordPress MCP: connecting AI agents
page.type Integration (knowledge page)
page.url /en/integrations/wordpress-mcp/
page.pillar API integrations (/en/data-enablement/api-integrations/)
systems WordPress · Model Context Protocol · Claude · ChatGPT
methods MCP Adapter + Abilities API · Middleware (n8n) · custom MCP plugin · OAuth 2.1 with PKCE
provides MCP server for WordPress with tools for posts, metadata, media and taxonomies
provides Permissions tied to WordPress roles, publishing by humans only
provides Access for your own AI agents as part of WordPress maintenance
proof own MCP server on 360vier.de with OAuth and separate permissions
proof BÜRGER: AI-assisted migration of 150 boards and more than 20,000 tasks (/en/case-study/buerger/)
relation Agentic AI (/en/ai-enablement/agentic-ai/)
relation AI process automation (/en/ai-enablement/ai-process-automation/)
relation AI Manifest (/en/ai-manifest/)
An MCP server defines which tools an AI may call in WordPress and under which user. There are three ways to get there:
As much as the server allows. Permissions depend on the WordPress user the client signs in as and on the tools the server offers. 360VIER sets up servers so that the AI creates and edits drafts, while a person triggers publishing. Tools that delete content stay switched off.
Every change runs under a dedicated user and can be traced in the revisions. This is in line with the principles in our AI Manifest.
Via the MCP server, the editorial team works in WordPress from within Claude or ChatGPT. The agent creates a draft from a brief, sets the title and meta description, assigns categories and uploads images with alt text.
It checks existing pages for missing metadata or outdated statements and writes the correction back as a draft. How agents are built with permissions, approvals and an audit log is described on our agentic AI page. Workflows across several systems, such as with Brevo or HubSpot, are part of AI process automation.
360VIER runs an MCP server with its own plugin on its own WordPress installation. It provides tools such as get-post, list-posts, create-post, update-post, set-post-meta, upload-media and list-terms. Sign-in uses OAuth with PKCE and separate permissions for reading, writing and administration.
The way we work: drafts by AI, publishing only after approval. Our newsletter draft for Brevo is also created by an MCP tool. The migration for BÜRGER shows how AI tools move large data sets via APIs: 150 boards and more than 20,000 tasks from Monday to ClickUp (BÜRGER case study).
Clients of our WordPress maintenance get access for their own AI agents via MCP. We build custom applications with AI as part of AI software development, and websites as a WordPress agency. All systems: Integrations.
An MCP server is an interface based on the Model Context Protocol through which AI applications call a website’s tools. In WordPress, these are things like “read post”, “create draft” or “upload image”. The server defines which tools exist and which user, with which permissions, is behind them.
Yes. The MCP Adapter is an official plugin from WordPress.org and builds on the Abilities API, which has been part of core since version 6.9. As of October 2026, it is at version 0.7.0 and is still considered experimental. For production systems, you should review permissions, sign-in and logging yourself.
Via a custom connector in Claude that points to your MCP server’s address. Claude signs in via OAuth, and then the approved tools are available in the chat. The server must be reachable from the internet, because Claude connects from Anthropic’s cloud.
Yes. ChatGPT supports custom MCP servers via developer mode. The server stays the same as for Claude, and permissions and tools apply to both clients. Before using it, check OpenAI’s help pages for which plans and write actions ChatGPT currently allows.
The Abilities API is updated along with core. The MCP Adapter and the MCP specification are still changing; version 0.7.0 continues to serve older clients via the November 2025 schema. A custom MCP plugin therefore belongs in regular maintenance, with the tools tested after every update.
No. Without a valid token, a protected MCP server answers no requests. Under the specification, every request must carry a token that the server issued for itself. In addition, tools can be switched off individually and access can be restricted to specific users and roles.
Yes, if the server offers tools for it. The adapter’s default server only covers custom post types, meta fields or WPML language versions to the extent that plugins register them as abilities. A custom MCP plugin describes them specifically and ties the permissions to the appropriate WordPress role.
