Connect an AI agent like Claude or ChatGPT to your WordPress.com account, and the agent can use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools below to work with your sites. This reference lists the available capabilities, grouped by topic.
This feature is available on sites with the WordPress.com Personal, Premium, Business, and Commerce plans. For free sites, upgrade your plan to access this feature.
Capabilities for working with the sites on your WordPress.com account.
- See your sites. List all sites on your account, including WordPress.com sites and self-hosted Jetpack-connected sites.
- View and update site settings. See and change general settings, including the site title, tagline, timezone, and date and time formats. Reads also cover writing, reading, discussion, media, permalink, and privacy options.
- Launch a site or change its visibility. Launch a site or switch its visibility between public, private, and coming soon. For sites with active subscribers, your agent confirms before making a site private.
Try a prompt like:
- “Show me a list of all my sites.”
- “Update my site’s tagline to ‘Adventures in espresso and travel’.”
- “Make yourgroovysite.wordpress.com public.”
- View your site statistics. See views, visitors, top content, referrers, geographic data, and performance metrics.
- Review your site’s activity log. See a chronological log of site events, including posts, comments, plugin updates, backups, user actions, and other activity.
- See your site’s installed plugins. List plugins on a site with their status, version, available updates, and your permissions.
Try a prompt like:
- “Which of my sites gets the most traffic?”
- “Show me what’s happened on my site in the last week.”
- “What plugins are installed on my main site?”
- Manage your site’s media library. Upload new files (images, PDFs, documents, audio, and video), view existing items, update item details, and delete items.
Try a prompt like:
- “Update the alt text on my most recently uploaded image.”
- “Update the caption on the image titled ‘Sunset over the harbor’.”
- “Show me all the images I’ve uploaded this month.”
- Check Jetpack Newsletter health and settings. View subscriber counts, recent send statistics, current Newsletter settings, and reasons your site might not be able to send a newsletter.
- Toggle Jetpack Monitor downtime alerts. See the current Jetpack Monitor status and turn alerts on or off. Changes affect all administrators on the site.
- Toggle Jetpack Account Protection. See the current Jetpack Account Protection status and turn it on or off. Changes affect all administrators on the site. Available on Atomic and Jetpack-connected self-hosted sites.
Try a prompt like:
- “How many subscribers does my Newsletter have?”
- “Turn on Jetpack Monitor for yourgroovysite.wordpress.com.”
- “Is Jetpack Account Protection enabled on my site?”
Capabilities for working with posts, comments, categories, and tags.
- Create, view, update, and delete posts. Browse and filter posts on a site, view a single post, and create, edit, or delete posts.
- Search across your site’s content. Run a full-text search across all public post types on a site.
- Create, view, update, and delete comments. Browse and filter comments, view individual comments, and create, edit, or delete comments.
- Create, view, update, and delete categories. Browse existing categories, view individual categories, and add, edit, or remove them.
- Create, view, update, and delete tags. Browse existing tags, view individual tags, and add, edit, or remove them.
Try a prompt like:
- “Show me my latest posts.”
- “Suggest 10 new blog post topics to write about.”
- “Write and save a draft post about home espresso setups in my usual style.”
- “Add a new category called ‘Tutorials’ to my site.”
- “Update the title of my most recent post to ‘A better way to brew espresso at home’.”
- “Reply to the latest comment on my post ‘Welcome to my blog’.”
- “Trash all posts that have been in draft for over a year.”
A capability for working with pages.
- Create, view, update, and delete pages. Browse and filter pages on a site, view a single page, and create, edit, or delete pages.
Try a prompt like:
- “Create a new page called ‘About Me’ with a short bio.”
- “Add a ‘Contact’ page with my email and a short intro paragraph.”
Capabilities for working with your site’s themes, templates, patterns, menus, and styles. Many of these changes apply across the whole site — when an agent updates a template, template part, or global style, the change appears on every page that uses it.
- See your installed themes and active theme. List the themes installed on your site and identify the one currently active.
- View your theme’s design presets and applied styles. See the design presets that come with your theme and the styles currently applied.
- View and update your site’s global styles. See your site’s user-level global style customizations and update them.
- Browse global style variation presets. List the style variations available for your active theme.
Try a prompt like:
- “What theme is my site using?”
- “Update my site’s primary color to a deep forest green.”
- “Show me the style variations available for my theme.”
- Browse available block patterns. List the block patterns registered on your site and view individual patterns.
- View your synced patterns. List the synced (reusable) patterns on your site and view individual ones.
Try a prompt like:
- “Show me the patterns available on my site.”
- “List the synced patterns I’ve saved on my site.”
- Create, view, update, and delete block templates. List templates on your site, view individual templates, look up the template that would render a given URL or post type, and create, update, or delete custom template overrides.
- Create, view, update, and delete template parts. List and view template parts (such as headers, footers, and sidebars), and create, update, or revert custom template parts.
Try a prompt like:
- “What template will show when someone visits my About page?”
- “Update my site footer to include a copyright notice.”
- Create, view, update, and delete classic navigation menus. List classic navigation menus and their items, and create, update, or delete menus and menu items.
- Create, view, and update block navigation menus. List block navigation menus (used in Full Site Editing themes), view individual menus, and create or update them.
Try a prompt like:
- “Add a new item to my main navigation menu linking to my About page.”
- “Show me the navigation menus on my site.”
- See available block types. List all the block types registered on your site.
Try a prompt like:
- “What block types are available on my site?”
Capabilities for working with the domains connected to your WordPress.com sites.
- View your domains. See the domains across your sites, with basic information about each.
- Search domain availability and pricing. Check whether a domain name is available and generate a WordPress.com checkout link to register it.
- Update DNS records for a domain. Add or remove DNS records for a single domain (A, AAAA, ALIAS, CAA, CNAME, MX, NS, SRV, and TXT records).
- Update nameservers for a domain. Set the nameservers for a single domain. You must manage the site the domain is connected to.
- Provision an SSL certificate for a domain. Trigger an SSL certificate provisioning attempt for a domain after you’ve confirmed it’s configured correctly.
- Set up an external mail service. Configure DNS records to use an external mail provider with your domain, including Google Workspace, iCloud Mail, Office 365, and Zoho Mail.
- Set your primary domain. Set a domain as the primary domain for a site, replacing the default
.wordpress.comaddress.
Try a prompt like:
- “Check if yourgroovydomain.com is available to register.”
- “Show me all the domains connected to my sites.”
- “Add a TXT record to my domain to verify it with my email provider.”
- “Set up Google Workspace email on yourgroovydomain.com.”
Capabilities for working with your WordPress.com account.
- View and update your profile. See your account profile information, preferences, and settings, and update your display name, bio, URL, and locale.
- View your achievements. See badges you’ve earned, special accomplishments, milestones, and other progress, including your trophy case.
- View your connections. List the social media and third-party services connected to your account, view details, and test connection health.
Try a prompt like:
- “Update my bio to mention I’m a freelance designer based in Dublin.”
- “Show me my account achievements and trophy case.”
- “List the social media accounts connected to my WordPress.com profile.”
- View your security settings. See your security settings, authentication methods, and account security status.
- View and update your notification settings. See and change your notification preferences across email, push, timeline, and other channels, including device management and delivery testing.
- View your notifications. See your actual notification messages, alerts, and inbox activity. For notification preferences, use the capability above.
Try a prompt like:
- “Show me my unread notifications.”
- “Turn off email notifications for new comments.”
- “What security methods are enabled on my account?”
- Browse WordPress.com plans. List WordPress.com plans, including prices and per-tier feature lists.
- Generate a WordPress.com checkout URL. Create a pre-configured WordPress.com checkout link for one or more products (new purchase) or for a subscription renewal.
- Change your billing currency. Change the billing currency for your WordPress.com account.
Try a prompt like:
- “What’s the current price of the Premium plan?”
- “Which plan should I upgrade to on mygroovysite.wordpress.com?”
- “Renew my plan on mygroovysite.wordpress.com.”
