🤖 Free Plugin

Royal MCP — Connect AI to WordPress

Name: Royal MCP
Author: Jameson

By Jameson · Founder & Lead Developer · Updated April 2026

Royal MCP is a free WordPress plugin that connects AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor directly to your WordPress site via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It gives AI tools 38 operations to read, create, edit, and manage your posts, pages, media, users, and settings through natural language — no manual dashboard work required.

According to Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey, 76% of developers now use AI coding assistants. And according to Anthropic (2025), the Model Context Protocol is supported by over 20 AI applications. Royal MCP bridges the gap between these AI tools and the 43% of the web powered by WordPress.

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37 MCP Tools

10+ AI Platforms

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Supported Platforms

Which AI Tools Does Royal MCP Support?

Royal MCP is a free WordPress plugin that gives AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor direct access to your WordPress site through 37 built-in operations — letting you create posts, manage media, edit settings, and more via natural language. It supports 6 AI platforms via native MCP or REST API integration.

AI Platform	Connection Type	Example Use Case
Claude (Anthropic)	Native MCP	Draft and publish blog posts via conversation
ChatGPT (OpenAI)	REST API	Bulk-edit post metadata across your entire site
Cursor	Native MCP	Read site structure while developing themes
Google Gemini	REST API	Analyze comment sentiment across posts
Windsurf	Native MCP	Manage media library during development
Perplexity, Groq, Mistral, +5 more	REST API / MCP	Custom AI workflows and automations

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Claude

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OpenAI

✨

Gemini

🌌

Mistral

🔍

Perplexity

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Groq

💫

Cohere

🚀

Together AI

Key Features

What Can You Do with Royal MCP?

Built for power users and developers who want seamless AI integration.

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Claude Desktop Integration

Native MCP connector designed for Claude Desktop. Copy your Remote MCP Server URL and start chatting with your WordPress content immediately.

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Enterprise-Ready Security

API key authentication, OAuth support, activity logging, and HTTPS enforcement. Every request is tracked and secured.

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37 WordPress Tools

Full read/write access to posts, pages, media, categories, tags, comments, users, menus, and site configuration.

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Activity Logging

Complete audit trail of all AI interactions. See exactly what each platform accessed, when, and what they did.

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REST API Endpoints

Standard WordPress REST API integration with JSON-RPC protocol. MCP 2025-03-26 specification compliant.

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No Copy-Pasting

AI assistants access your content in real-time. No manual exports needed. Work faster with direct WordPress access.

Screenshots

What Does Royal MCP Look Like?

A clean, intuitive interface that makes AI integration simple.

Main Settings Page

Enable the integration, view your API key and REST URL, see available endpoints.

AI Platform Configuration

Add multiple AI platforms, configure API keys, select models, and test connections.

Activity Log

Monitor all AI interactions with timestamps, actions, and detailed request data.

Claude Connector Setup

Claude Desktop showing Royal MCP with all 37 WordPress tools and permission controls.

Working Verification

Real proof of Royal MCP working with Claude, showing successful site info retrieval.

Available Tools

How Does the Model Context Protocol Work?

Royal MCP exposes 38 tools via MCP's JSON-RPC protocol. Complete WordPress access for AI platforms, following WordPress security best practices.

📄 Posts & Pages

wp_get_posts
wp_get_post
wp_create_post
wp_update_post
wp_delete_post
wp_get_pages
wp_create_page
wp_update_page

🖼 Media

wp_get_media
wp_get_media_item
wp_delete_media
wp_count_media

🏷 Taxonomies

wp_get_categories
wp_get_tags
wp_create_term
wp_delete_term
wp_add_post_terms
wp_count_terms

💬 Comments & Users

wp_get_comments
wp_create_comment
wp_delete_comment
wp_get_users
wp_get_user

🌐 Site & Menus

wp_get_site_info
wp_search
wp_get_option
wp_get_menus
wp_get_menu_items

🔧 Post Meta

wp_get_post_meta
wp_update_post_meta
wp_delete_post_meta

🔌 Plugins & Themes

wp_get_plugins
wp_get_themes

📊 Counts

wp_count_posts
wp_count_media
wp_count_terms

Why We Built Royal MCP

We built Royal MCP because managing WordPress through an AI assistant saves hours of manual work every week. Instead of switching between browser tabs, navigating the WordPress admin, and copy-pasting content, you can simply tell your AI what to do. For example, you can ask Claude to "create a new blog post about WordPress security best practices" and it will create the post directly in your WordPress editor — complete with title, content, categories, and tags.

For example, a site administrator managing 200+ posts can ask their AI to "find all posts not updated in the last 6 months and list them with their categories," then follow up with "update the meta descriptions for those posts based on their current content." What would take hours of manual work happens in minutes.

"MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools. Instead of building custom integrations for every platform, developers can use a single protocol."
— Anthropic, Introducing the Model Context Protocol (2024)

Use Cases

Who Is Royal MCP For?

Real examples of AI-powered WordPress workflows.

Content Creators

Claude, summarize my last 10 blog posts
Write a social media thread based on my latest article
Find all posts about marketing and create an outline
Draft a new post about our product launch

Site Administrators

List all posts not updated in 6 months
Show me comment statistics across my site
What plugins are currently active?
Find all draft posts and summarize them

Developers

Build AI-powered content workflows
Create custom integrations using MCP
Automate content management with AI
Generate documentation from site data

Getting Started

How Do You Get Started?

Simple setup with no coding required.

Install Plugin

Download from WordPress.org and activate. Or upload the ZIP file through your admin dashboard.

Configure Settings

Enable Royal MCP, add your AI platforms, and enter their API keys. Test connections with one click.

Connect Claude

Copy the Remote MCP Server URL, paste it into Claude Desktop's connector settings, and start chatting.