Whether you manage a single blog or a roster of client sites, it typically involves logging into dashboards, checking posts and comments, reviewing traffic statistics, and monitoring plugin or theme updates. Every question about your site’s health or performance takes time to answer.

Now you can simply ask an AI assistant like Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor: “Show me my latest posts and how they’re performing.” 

Within seconds, the results appear, pulled via WordPress.com’s new support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Today’s manual back-and-forth

AI assistants are already part of many creative and development workflows, helping people brainstorm copy, generate code, and analyze data. 

But when it’s time to work with your WordPress site, those tools don’t have direct access to your site details. They don’t automatically know which posts went live, how traffic is trending, or what plugins are active, so you still end up copying, pasting, and exporting spreadsheets, adding extra steps every time you want an answer that your AI can’t reach on its own.

That gap means your AI can brainstorm and advise, but it hits a wall when it comes to actually using your site’s data to help you make meaningful decisions. What’s missing is a secure way for your AI assistant to communicate with your WordPress.com site and understand your content, stats, and settings.

The WordPress.com MCP unlock

That’s where MCP (Model Context Protocol) comes in — an open standard that lets applications provide context to large language models (LLMs).

With MCP, your AI assistant can actually connect to WordPress.com, giving you direct visibility into your site’s content, analytics, and settings, all without leaving your AI tool.

The result is:

• Faster workflows: Skip the logins and clicking through individual site stats — just ask your AI assistant.
• AI and WordPress.com together: Bring all of your site content, data, and insights into one place.
• Secure by design: Safe access with nothing stored locally, and full control to connect and disconnect at any time.

As the first WordPress host to support MCP with OAuth by default, WordPress.com has made every site on a paid WordPress.com plan MCP-ready, if and when you’re ready to enable it.

Simply connect your favorite AI app (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, or any other AI assistant that supports MCP) and start communicating with your WordPress.com site in a brand new way.

Currently, our MCP integration provides your AI assistant with “read-only” access to your site, meaning it can securely surface information and insights in your AI tool without requiring you to log in and manually retrieve them. “Write” access will come next, extending what your assistant can do as well as what it can see.

How to get started with MCP on WordPress.com

Getting started only takes a few minutes. Once enabled on your WordPress.com account, MCP works behind the scenes to connect your WordPress.com sites with your favorite AI assistant:

1. Enable MCP on your WordPress.com account.
2. Configure your AI application following the provided instructions.
3. Authenticate through our OAuth interface.

After that, you can directly ask your AI assistant for information about your sites so you don’t have to dig through reports for basic answers. 

Here are just a few examples of some of the things you may want to learn about your sites through your AI assistant:

• “How did my latest post perform?” No need to click through pages of analytics; you get the traffic insights instantly in your AI assistant.
• “Run a comprehensive health check across all my WordPress.com sites – show me which ones need attention for storage, performance, or content freshness, then create a prioritized action plan.” Your AI assistant can instantly return a prioritized action plan — no manual site-by-site checks required.
• “Summarize recent comments across all my sites.” Address common reader questions and needs by getting a quick overview of the conversations happening across your sites.

These are just a handful of ways MCP makes your WordPress.com site AI-readable. See the complete list of available MCP tools and some prompt examples in our developer documentation.

Try it today

Understanding your site shouldn’t mean piecing together insights from half a dozen places. With MCP, you can now learn more about your website where you’re already working — in your AI assistant.

It’s a faster, more focused way to stay on top of your WordPress.com sites, with the reassurance that the connection is secured by OAuth and fully under your control.

WordPress.com’s MCP implementation is just one of many currently available in Automattic products — and you can even use them together. You can find a complete list of our MCP servers here.

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