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Royal MCP — Connect, manage and edit WordPress from your AI agent

Name: Royal MCP
Author: Jameson

By Jameson · Founder & Lead Developer · Updated October 2026

Royal MCP is a free WordPress plugin that connects AI Agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor directly to your WordPress site via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), plus the browser-based AI Agents rolling out now through Cloudflare's WebMCP bridge and more to come.

Royal MCP gives AI tools 109 core tools to read, create, edit, and manage your posts, pages, media, users, and settings through natural language, no manual dashboard work required.

Install alongside WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi, ACF, Yoast SEO, UpdraftPlus, WPForms, Solid Security, Wordfence, Contact Form 7, MonsterInsights, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, Duplicator, BuddyPress, Royal AI Firewall, or any of our Royal Plugins and Royal MCP auto-detects them, unlocking 150 additional tools for plugin-specific workflows: 250+ tools in total.

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.

Royal MCP walkthrough

Watch the walkthrough 5:00

Get on WordPress.org TRY IT LIVE

“Try it live” launches a real WordPress admin in your browser with Royal MCP pre-configured, with a demo API key, enabled platforms, and sample activity log entries. No signup, closes when you leave the tab.

Code Scanned

Tested by plugintests.com

259 MCP Tools

10+ AI Platforms

25 Plugin Integrations

5 Page Builders

What Is Royal MCP?

The bridge between WordPress and AI

WordPress

Your site, content & store data

Royal MCP

Translates AI requests into WordPress actions

AI Assistant

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor & more

Royal MCP is a free WordPress plugin that gives AI Agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor full stack access to your WordPress site through 109 built-in tools, so you can create posts, manage media, work with custom post types, edit settings, and more via natural language. Works with every MCP-capable AI client out of the box via OAuth or API.

Supported Platforms

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Gemini

Windsurf

Mistral

Perplexity

Groq

Cohere

Together AI

Royal MCP works with every MCP-capable client out of the box and with any other AI platform via WordPress’s REST API.

Setup

Set up Royal MCP in 3 steps

5 minutes or less.

No developer required. Full walkthrough videos on the Connect Claude and Connect ChatGPT pages.

Install free from WordPress.org

Search “Royal MCP” in your Plugins → Add New screen, or grab it from wordpress.org/plugins/royal-mcp/. One-click activate like any other WordPress plugin.

Grab your MCP URL

Open Royal MCP in the WordPress admin. The Connect screen surfaces your endpoint URL: https://yoursite.com/wp-json/royal-mcp/v1/mcp. Copy it.

Add as a connector, authorize, done

In your AI client of choice, name the connector, paste your URL, click Add, authorize the OAuth prompt in your browser. Full step-by-step: Connect Claude · Connect ChatGPT.

Why Royal MCP

Connecting AI is the easy part. Trusting it is the job.

Any MCP plugin can connect an AI client to WordPress. Royal MCP is built for what comes next: changes you can review and reverse, layouts that stay editable, connections that work on the host you already have, and one place to run every site.

01Free

Safe by default

The AI starts with the least it needs. Turn on Drafts only and it can create and edit drafts while publishing, live pages and site settings are refused. Give each connected client Full, Drafts only or Read-only access, preview changes before they go live, and see every AI change from the last 72 hours with the value before and after, ready to undo.

Safety and recovery guide →

02Pro

Stays editable in your builder

What the AI builds is real builder content your team keeps editing, not a block of HTML. Royal MCP Pro creates native Elementor widgets and Divi modules and works with Elementor global classes and variables, theme-builder conditions and Divi global presets. Free already keeps pages as native Gutenberg blocks and covers the Elementor and Divi basics: outlines, clones, text and image swaps.

See Royal MCP Pro →

03Free

Works on real hosts

Shared hosting, firewalls, CDNs and security plugins are where most AI connections break. Royal MCP checks the usual blockers in Site Health, signs in with Claude and ChatGPT in the browser, connects with an API key when a host blocks sign-in, and comes with nearly 50 support guides for specific hosts, firewalls and CDNs.

Troubleshooting, start here →

04Royally · for Pro sites

Every site from one place

Running many client sites? Royally connects to sites running Royal MCP Pro and gives you monitoring, previews, approvals, receipts, undo and a kill switch across all of them.

MCP ECOSYSTEM

Three layers. One protocol.

WordPress.org runs MCP for the plugin directory. Royal MCP runs it against your live site, with Drafts only, access levels and 72-hour undo built in. Royal MCP Pro adds 7-day undo, a 90-day audit log and endpoint profiles for agencies.

Layer 01 · Distribution

WordPress.org MCP

Manages the wp.org plugin directory. Validate readme files, check submission status, and submit plugins for review, all from inside Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code.

For: Plugin authors submitting to wp.org
Shipped: March 2026

Read the announcement →

You are here

Layer 02 · Runtime

Royal MCP

Manages live WordPress sites. Read and create posts, edit pages, manage media, configure settings: 250+ tools across content, taxonomy, users, and store data, with Drafts only, per-client access levels and 72-hour undo.

For: AI tools managing live WordPress sites
Shipped: January 2026

Install Royal MCP →

Layer 03 · Agency runtime

Royal MCP Pro

Builds on the free plugin with 7-day undo, a 90-day audit log, endpoint profiles that choose which tools each connection sees, bulk edits with previews, and structural Elementor and Divi editing.

For: Agencies running AI against production
Shipped: August 2026

Explore Royal MCP Pro →

WordPress 6.9 Abilities API

Every tool. Four ways in.

Every other WordPress MCP plugin we’ve reviewed ships one endpoint, one transport, one auth pattern (take it or leave it). Royal MCP registers every one of its 250+ tools through four separate access paths: its own MCP endpoint, the WordPress core Abilities API, the Automattic WordPress MCP Adapter, and now the WebMCP browser-agent standard. Same tools, whichever surface your AI stack already speaks.

Native MCP endpoint

Direct JSON-RPC over the /wp-json/royal-mcp/v1/mcp route. Full MCP 2025-11-25 spec, OAuth 2.0 discovery, session management. Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors, Cursor, and Windsurf hit this endpoint straight from your WordPress site, the same way any REST client would.

Core Abilities REST API

On WP 6.9+, every Royal MCP tool is discoverable at /wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/*. Standard WordPress authentication (Application Passwords, cookies, JWT). Any script, cron job, or third-party plugin that speaks REST invokes every Royal MCP tool without knowing what MCP is.

WordPress MCP Adapter

Sites running Automattic’s official WordPress MCP Adapter get Royal MCP’s tools through that adapter’s endpoint automatically. Same 250+ tools, whichever MCP server your fleet standardized on. Zero adapter configuration on the Royal MCP side.

WebMCP browser bridge

Browser AI can now use your Royal MCP tools directly. When a visitor is signed into your site, browser-based AI agents from any WebMCP-compatible bridge can call the same tools that Claude Desktop and ChatGPT already use, without any extra login step. Cloudflare’s WebMCP is the first bridge implementation shipping today; more are on the way. Off by default; one toggle in settings turns it on.

Nothing else in the WordPress MCP ecosystem ships this. Some competitors require a local Node.js MCP server to bridge, some only work through a browser extension, some ship a single HTTP endpoint with rigid client requirements. Royal MCP works with the WordPress core direction, the two standard access patterns above, and the emerging browser-agent standard, so whichever way your AI stack evolves, the tools stay reachable. Fully backwards compatible: existing OAuth clients keep working exactly as before.

Agent Readiness

Your MCP server, discoverable by every AI scanner.

Royal MCP now publishes an MCP Server Card, a Skills Index, and OAuth Protected Resource metadata at the standard well-known paths. Cloudflare’s Agent Readiness scanner, Vercel’s is-agentic, and Chrome Lighthouse’s Agentic Browsing audit all recognize your site as agent-ready with no extra setup.

/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

Server card

A public discovery document at the standard well-known path. Names your MCP endpoint, supported protocol versions, auth methods, and tool categories. Any agent runtime can read it before touching the auth’d endpoint.

/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json

Skills index

Publishes your Royal MCP tool set as agent-callable skills, one entry per installed integration category. Auto-populates from what’s active on the site. Filter hook for customization.

Link: rel="mcp-server-card"

RFC 8288 Link headers

Every /mcp response carries a Link header pointing at the metadata documents, so agent runtimes that hit the endpoint find them without extra probing.

Verified by

Cloudflare Agent Readiness scanner (Level 3: Advanced Integration), Vercel is-agentic, and Chrome Lighthouse 13.3+ Agentic Browsing audit all recognize Royal MCP-installed sites without extra setup on your side. Fully backwards compatible: nothing changes for existing OAuth clients, and the discovery documents work whether or not you enable browser agents.

Key Features

What Can You Do with Royal MCP?

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

🔗

Claude Desktop Integration

Native MCP connector designed for Claude Desktop. Copy your Remote MCP Server URL and start chatting with your WordPress content immediately, or install the one-click .mcpb bundle from the plugin admin for zero-config setup.

🔒

Enterprise-Ready Security

API key authentication, OAuth with an optional Pending Clients approval gate for new connectors, per-request activity logging, and HTTPS enforcement. Every request is tracked, gated, and secured.

🛠

109 WordPress Tools

Full read/write access to posts, pages, custom post types, media, categories, tags, comments, users, menus, plugin settings, and site configuration. Sensitive credentials inside plugin settings are automatically redacted before AI sees them.

📊

Activity Logging

Complete audit trail of every AI interaction, plus a Protocol Insights dashboard that rolls it up weekly: which clients hit your endpoint, which MCP protocol versions they used, which methods they called most.

💻

REST API Endpoints

Standard WordPress REST API integration with JSON-RPC protocol. Supports MCP protocol versions 2024-11-05 through 2026-07-28.

🖼

Images and PDFs from the Chat

Hand ChatGPT or Claude an image or PDF and it goes straight into your media library, converted and compressed on the way in (for example, a JPEG under 400 KB).

🔄

Dry Run and Undo

High-blast writes like site options and permalink structure accept a dry-run flag, so the AI previews the exact change (current value, proposed value, size delta, affected URLs) before you approve the commit. Content, settings, menu, WooCommerce, Elementor and Divi writes also return a 72-hour undo token, and one call reverses the change.

Stay in Control

Your site, your rules

Giving an AI client access to a site should never mean losing sight of it. Royal MCP gives you seven ways to limit, review and reverse what connected clients do, from inside wp-admin or from the terminal.

Drafts only

AI clients can create and edit drafts. Publishing, live pages and site settings are refused, so nothing goes live until you review it.

Settings › What AI clients may do

Access levels

Give each connected client Full, Drafts only or Read-only access. The API key and other MCP servers on the site get their own level.

Connected Clients · Settings

Recent Changes

Every AI change from the last 72 hours, with the value before, what the change wrote, and what it is now. The AI client can undo any of them.

Royal MCP › Recent Changes

Read-only mode

One switch refuses every tool that changes the site. All reads keep working, and clients can see which tools are marked.

Settings › What AI clients may do

Connected Clients

One row per AI client and user signed in through OAuth. Revoke access on any row, or revoke all at once.

Royal MCP › Connected Clients

Site Health tests

Four checks that catch the usual blockers before a client does: permalinks, discovery document, Authorization header reaching WordPress, sign-in addresses reachable.

Tools › Site Health

WP-CLI commands

Check connection health, list connected clients, rotate the API key, switch Drafts only on or off and set each client's access level from the terminal, on one site or in a loop over every site you manage.

WP-CLI command reference

Screenshots

What Does Royal MCP Look Like?

From inside WordPress, from inside Claude, from inside ChatGPT. See the full picture.

Inside WordPress

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, click Test Connection for a green confirmation badge.

Activity Log

Every AI interaction logged with timestamps, actions, and detailed request data.

Protocol Insights

Weekly rollups of MCP protocol versions, top AI clients, and method-call frequency across every request.

Royal MCP Pending Clients admin page listing four AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Code) awaiting approval, with client name, redirect URIs, source IP, user agent, registration time, and Approve or Reject buttons on each row

Pending Client Approval

Turn on Require approval before new AI clients can connect and every dynamically-registered client lands here. Review the redirect URI, IP, and user agent, then Approve or Reject.

Connecting Claude

Two paths to connect: paste the Remote MCP Server URL manually, or download the .mcpb bundle from Royal MCP settings for one-click Claude Desktop install. No config, no copy-paste.

Royal MCP OAuth consent screen as it appears when Claude requests access. Claude wants to connect to your WordPress site. Permissions listed with green checkmarks: read posts pages and media, create and edit content, manage categories tags and menus, view site settings and user info. Authorize and Deny buttons at the bottom.

OAuth Consent in Claude

Royal MCP’s native OAuth consent screen: Claude requests scoped permissions, you click Authorize, the handshake completes.

Claude Desktop Connectors panel showing the My Royal Plugins connector with over 100 tools listed and per-tool permission controls

Claude Connector Setup

Claude Desktop showing Royal MCP with 100+ WordPress tools and per-tool permission controls (allow / ask / block).

Claude chat response showing Connected. demo.royalplugins.com is responding: with the site name, URL, WordPress version, timezone, and language listed

Working in Claude

One natural-language prompt: Claude calls Royal MCP and reports back site name, URL, WordPress version, timezone, and language.

Claude showing a dry-run preview response for a WordPress option write: current value, proposed value, size delta in bytes, and autoload state returned before the write is committed

Dry-Run Preview in Claude

Ask Claude to preview a high-blast write like an option or permalink change. Response shows current value, proposed value, size delta, and blast radius before you approve the commit.

Connecting ChatGPT

ChatGPT New App dialog with all fields completed for a Royal MCP setup: name, description, server URL, OAuth authentication selected, risk acknowledgment checked, and Create button active

ChatGPT Custom App Setup

Add Royal MCP as a Custom App in ChatGPT (Developer Mode). Fill in the name, description, server URL, and OAuth details, then click Create.

Royal MCP OAuth consent screen with ChatGPT requesting permission to read posts and media, create and edit content, manage categories and menus, and view site settings

OAuth Consent in ChatGPT

Royal MCP’s native OAuth consent screen: ChatGPT requests scoped permissions, you click Authorize, the handshake completes.

ChatGPT chat showing it successfully called Royal MCP and retrieved site info including site name, WordPress version, language, and timezone, confirming the connector is active and responding

Working in ChatGPT

Same natural-language pattern: ChatGPT calls Royal MCP, retrieves the site info, confirms the connector is active.

Video Guides

See Royal MCP in Action

Setup walkthroughs, feature deep-dives, and real-world use cases, one video at a time.

Watch the full playlist on YouTube

Available Tools

How Does the Model Context Protocol Work?

Royal MCP exposes 109 core tools via MCP's JSON-RPC protocol. Complete WordPress access for AI platforms, following WordPress security best practices.

📄 Posts & Pages 14 tools

wp_get_posts

wp_get_post

wp_create_post

wp_update_post

wp_delete_post

wp_count_posts

wp_get_post_types

wp_get_pages

wp_get_page

wp_create_page

wp_update_page

wp_delete_page

wp_publish_and_promote

wp_create_preview_link

🖼 Media 8 tools

wp_get_media

wp_get_media_item

wp_upload_media

wp_upload_media_from_url

wp_update_media

wp_set_featured_image

wp_delete_media

wp_count_media

🏷 Taxonomies 8 tools

wp_get_taxonomies

wp_get_categories

wp_get_tags

wp_create_term

wp_update_term

wp_delete_term

wp_add_post_terms

wp_count_terms

💬 Comments 7 tools

wp_get_comments

wp_create_comment

wp_delete_comment

wp_get_pending_comments

wp_approve_comment

wp_spam_comment

wp_trash_comment

👤 Users & Search 4 tools

wp_get_users

wp_get_user

wp_get_site_info

wp_search

🖌️ Menus 7 tools

wp_get_menus

wp_get_menu_items

wp_create_menu

wp_create_menu_item

wp_update_menu_item

wp_delete_menu_item

wp_reorder_menu_items

🎨 Themes & Appearance 6 tools

wp_get_themes

wp_get_active_theme

wp_get_theme_mods

wp_update_theme_mod

wp_get_custom_css

wp_update_custom_css

🔧 Post & Term Meta 6 tools

wp_get_post_meta

wp_update_post_meta

wp_delete_post_meta

wp_get_term_meta

wp_update_term_meta

wp_delete_term_meta

⚙️ Options & Plugins 4 tools

wp_get_option

wp_update_option

wp_get_plugin_settings

wp_get_plugins

🔗 SEO, Permalinks & Revisions 6 tools

wp_get_seo_meta

wp_update_seo_meta

wp_get_permalink_structure

wp_update_permalink_structure

wp_get_post_revisions

wp_restore_revision

🔍 Diagnostics & Health 4 tools

wp_get_site_status

wp_get_error_log_tail

wp_get_cron_schedule

royal_mcp_connection_health

Plugin Integrations

Royal Plugin Tools

When other Royal Plugins or supported third-party plugins are active, Royal MCP automatically exposes 150 additional tools. Install any of these alongside Royal MCP and your AI gets dedicated commands for that plugin's functionality, no extra configuration required.

GuardPress 7 tools

Show tools

gp_get_security_status

gp_get_security_stats

gp_run_vulnerability_scan

gp_get_vulnerability_results

gp_get_failed_logins

gp_get_blocked_ips

gp_get_audit_log

Royal AI Firewall 6 tools

Show tools

raif_get_dashboard_stats

raif_get_recent_hits

raif_get_bot_policies

raif_set_bot_policy

raif_get_daily_rollup

raif_block_all_ai_bots

SiteVault 6 tools

Show tools

sv_get_backups

sv_get_backup

sv_create_backup

sv_get_backup_status

sv_get_backup_stats

sv_get_schedules

ForgeCache 4 tools

Show tools

fc_clear_cache

fc_get_cache_stats

fc_purge_url

fc_get_rum_stats

Royal Links 3 tools

Show tools

rlinks_get_links

rlinks_create_link

rlinks_get_link_stats

Royal Ledger 4 tools

Show tools

rl_get_costs

rl_create_cost

rl_get_renewals

rl_get_keys

WooCommerce 29 tools

Show tools

wc_get_products

wc_get_product

wc_create_product

wc_update_product

wc_get_product_variations

wc_get_variation

wc_create_variation

wc_update_variation

wc_delete_variation

wc_batch_update_variations

wc_get_product_attributes

wc_get_attribute_terms

wc_create_product_attribute

wc_set_product_attributes

wc_get_coupons

wc_get_coupon

wc_get_coupon_count

wc_create_coupon

wc_update_coupon

wc_delete_coupon

wc_empty_coupon_trash

wc_get_orders

wc_get_order

wc_create_order

wc_update_order

wc_update_order_status

wc_add_order_note

wc_get_customers

wc_get_store_stats

Elementor 14 tools

Show tools

elementor_clone_page

elementor_get_page_outline

elementor_list_local_templates

elementor_import_template

elementor_apply_template_to_page

elementor_replace_text

elementor_replace_image

elementor_add_widget

elementor_get_widget_settings

elementor_rebuild_post_content

elementor_rebuild_post_content_bulk

elementor_get_widget_schema

elementor_list_widget_schemas

elementor_list_dynamic_tags

View reference →

Divi 9 tools

Show tools

divi_get_page_format

divi_get_page_outline

divi_validate_layout

divi_list_local_templates

divi_library_get

divi_import_template

divi_clone_page

divi_replace_text

divi_replace_image

ACF 4 tools

Show tools

acf_get_field

acf_get_fields

acf_update_field

acf_get_field_groups

Redirection 4 tools

Show tools

redirection_list_redirects

redirection_create_redirect

redirection_update_redirect

redirection_list_groups

Yoast SEO 5 tools

Show tools

yoast_get_meta

yoast_update_meta

yoast_get_schema

yoast_get_internal_links

yoast_get_redirects

UpdraftPlus 4 tools

Show tools

updraftplus_list_backups

updraftplus_get_backup_status

updraftplus_trigger_backup

updraftplus_get_schedule

WPForms 4 tools

Show tools

wpforms_list_forms

wpforms_get_form

wpforms_list_submissions

wpforms_get_submission

Solid Security 4 tools

Show tools

solid_get_security_status

solid_list_blocked_ips

solid_list_events

solid_block_ip

Also detects iThemes Security and Kadence Security Basic (same underlying class).

Wordfence 8 tools

Show tools

wordfence_get_security_status

wordfence_get_blocked_ips

wordfence_block_ip

wordfence_unblock_ip

wordfence_get_failed_logins

wordfence_get_blocked_requests

wordfence_get_scan_results

wordfence_run_scan

Contact Form 7 3 tools

Show tools

cf7_list_forms

cf7_get_form

cf7_list_submissions

Submission access requires the Flamingo companion plugin.

MonsterInsights 4 tools

Show tools

monsterinsights_get_summary

monsterinsights_get_top_pages

monsterinsights_get_traffic_sources

monsterinsights_get_search_queries

W3 Total Cache 3 tools

Show tools

w3tc_get_cache_status

w3tc_purge_cache

w3tc_get_stats

LiteSpeed Cache 4 tools

Show tools

litespeed_get_cache_status

litespeed_get_config

litespeed_purge_cache

litespeed_purge_urls

Duplicator 3 tools

Show tools

duplicator_list_packages

duplicator_get_package_status

duplicator_get_installer

BuddyPress 4 tools

Show tools

bp_list_members

bp_get_member

bp_list_groups

bp_get_activity_feed

TablePress 6 tools

Show tools

tablepress_list_tables

tablepress_get_table

tablepress_create_table

tablepress_update_cells

tablepress_copy_table

tablepress_export_table

Code Snippets 5 tools

Show tools

snippets_list

snippets_get

snippets_recently_active

snippets_deactivate

snippets_update_metadata

WPCode 3 tools

Show tools

wpcode_list_snippets

wpcode_get_snippet

wpcode_get_snippet_status

Integration tools auto-load only when the host plugin is active, so there's no overhead if you don't use them.^*

^*If you don’t see your favorite plugin on the list, it doesn’t mean it’s not supported, it just means we haven’t added dedicated MCP tools for it yet. Suggest coverage here →

Why We Built It

Why we didn’t build another one-plugin MCP.

The MCP wave is coming to WordPress. WooCommerce is exploring one. Page builders are experimenting. Every major plugin author is asking the same question (“should we ship our own MCP server?”), and for most of them the honest answer is yes.

Which puts the burden on you. Every plugin that ships its own MCP is another endpoint to configure in Claude Desktop, another OAuth flow to walk through, another token to rotate, another health surface to babysit. Multiply that across the plugins on a typical WordPress site, times the AI clients your team uses, and you’re managing a fleet of connectors instead of your actual site.

Without Royal MCP

15+

Connectors to configure, per AI client

× OAuth flow per plugin
× Tokens per plugin to rotate
× Health surfaces to monitor
× Version compatibility to track

With Royal MCP

Connector for every plugin you install

✓ One OAuth flow
✓ One token to rotate
✓ One health surface
✓ Auto-adapts as plugins ship native MCPs

One connector, one OAuth, one health surface, running your whole plugin fleet. That’s Royal MCP.

Third-party research

91.5% of MCP servers ship without OAuth.

Royal MCP is in the other 8.5%. The four numbers on the right come from published third-party research, not our marketing.

We built Royal MCP with OAuth 2.1 by default, per-tool permission gates mapped to WordPress capabilities, a Pending Clients approval gate for new connectors, and a full activity log plus weekly Protocol Insights rollups for every read and write. No static API keys in .env files. No unauthenticated endpoints. The discipline that should have been standard from day one.

8.5%

of MCP servers use OAuth.

Astrix Security audit, 5,200+ servers, October 2025.

21,000+

publicly accessible MCP servers. Roughly half have no authentication in place.

Censys internet scan, May 2026.

106

zero-day vulnerabilities in an academic scan of 39,884 MCP repositories.

arXiv research, May 2026.

CVSS 9.6

critical vulnerability in a popular MCP proxy shipped across 437,000+ environments.

CVE-2025-6514, NIST database.

Skills Hub

Supercharge Your MCP with Claude Skills

Skills package multi-step WordPress workflows into a single prompt. Load one into Claude and every follow-up call to Royal MCP knows the sequence, the gotchas, and the rollback path. Free, community-owned, forever.

Elementor Claude Skill

Clone pages, replace text and images, apply library templates, and repair broken renders. Handles Elementor 3.x containers and 4.x atomic widgets out of the box.

Open Skill

Divi Claude Skill

Clone pages, find-and-replace text, swap images, and apply library entries. Divi 4 shortcodes and Divi 5 blocks under one skill, with 72-hour undo on image swaps, clones and library imports.

Open Skill

Submit Your Skill

Refined a workflow through a few conversations with Claude? Package it as a skill so the community never has to have those same conversations. WooCommerce, Yoast, UpdraftPlus, whatever you use.

Contribute

Browse the Skills Hub

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

Now Available

Royal MCP Pro is live

Royal MCP Pro adds an agency-scale layer on top of the free plugin you already use: 7-day undo, a 90-day audit log, endpoint profiles that choose which tools each connection sees, bulk edits with previews, and structural Elementor and Divi editing.

$149/yr $79 /yr Founding Members, rate locked at renewal

Get Royal MCP Pro →

Resources

Learn, build, contribute

Articles, docs, and a community building on it openly.

📚

From the blog

📝

Documentation & support

👥

Community & contribute

FAQ

Common Questions

Setup takes about five minutes. Install Royal MCP from WordPress.org (same one-click flow as any other WordPress plugin), open the Connect screen in the plugin admin, copy your MCP URL, then paste it into Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, or Cursor as a custom connector. Authorize the OAuth prompt in your browser and you're done. No API key generation, no server configuration, no terminal commands. Full step-by-step walkthroughs with videos live at Connect Claude and Connect ChatGPT.

No. Royal MCP works for anyone with a WordPress site. Installation matches any other WordPress plugin. OAuth authorization runs in the browser. There's no wp-config.php to edit, no cloudflared tunnel to install, no configuration files to touch. If you've installed and activated a WordPress plugin before, you already have every skill needed to set up Royal MCP.

Royal MCP ships two per-IP rate-limit tiers as standard security defaults to protect your site from runaway or hostile traffic: 60 requests per minute for unauthenticated traffic and 300 requests per minute for OAuth-authenticated clients. Real AI clients (Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor) all connect via OAuth, so they run on the 300-per-minute tier. Both thresholds are yours to tune via the royal_mcp_rate_limit_max and royal_mcp_rate_limit_window WordPress hooks if a specific workload needs headroom. No daily allowance, no monthly quota, no metered tool call ceiling.

Yes. Royal MCP includes an optional Require approval before new AI clients can connect setting. When enabled, every dynamically-registered OAuth client (Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, any MCP-capable tool) queues on the Pending Clients admin page for manual review. Inspect the redirect URI, source IP, and user agent, then Approve or Reject per row. The WordPress admin bar carries a live count badge so pending requests never sit unnoticed. Off by default so first-time setup stays one-click. Flip it on when you want gate-keeping.

No. Elementor 4.3 added its own MCP server (off by default) with element-level operations for Elementor V4 pages. Royal MCP takes a different angle: focused, composable tools built for repeated real-world tasks like clone a page, replace text across every module in one call, swap images, get an outline of a page's structure, on the classic (V3) Elementor pages most sites run. Both work side by side, and Royal MCP only notes Elementor's server when you have switched it on. Different layers of the same stack. See the Royal MCP Elementor Tools reference for the full per-tool guide.

Royal MCP offers 250+ MCP tools in a single plugin: WordPress core operations (posts, pages, media, users, settings) plus per-plugin integrations that auto-register when the underlying plugin is active: WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi, ACF, Yoast SEO, UpdraftPlus, WPForms, Solid Security, Wordfence, Contact Form 7, MonsterInsights, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, Duplicator, BuddyPress, GuardPress, SiteVault, Royal AI Firewall, ForgeCache, Redirection, Royal Links, Royal Ledger, and cross-plugin composers. One MCP endpoint, one OAuth setup, one WAF allowlist, instead of installing separate GitHub-distributed MCP plugins per integration, each with its own endpoint, tokens, and CDN bypass. Distributed through WordPress.org with auto-updates and security review on every release, free with no upsell.

Yes. Nine Divi tools cover both Divi 4 (shortcode format) and Divi 5 (block format), including safety-first reads (page format detection, page outline extraction, layout validation, saved layout listing, single library layout read) and builder-format-aware writes (find-and-replace with dry-run preview, page clone with fresh clientIds, image URL swap across every image-bearing element, and library-entry apply in merge or replace mode). Image swaps, page clones and library imports return a 72-hour undo token. Divi Builder plugin and Divi theme both supported.

No. Royal MCP's Elementor tools work with the free Elementor plugin. Its Divi tools work with both the free Divi Builder plugin and the paid Divi theme. Its WooCommerce tools work with free WooCommerce. Tools only appear when the underlying plugin is active, with no premium tier of any host plugin required to use any Royal MCP integration.

No. Royal MCP is a server that runs inside your WordPress site, so it doesn't call any external AI service. You connect your own AI client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other MCP-capable tool) to your site, and that client reads and writes through Royal MCP. All requests flow client → your WordPress → your database. We don't know whether the LLM you're using stores your context or trains on it, because that's beyond our layer and depends on the AI provider's terms. What we can promise: at Royal MCP's layer, we store nothing.

You can, and for a single-plugin site that might be the simplest path, but it stops being simple around the third or fourth connector. Each plugin's MCP lives at its own endpoint, which means each is a separate setup: separate OAuth flow, separate tokens, separate CDN cache-bypass rule, separate security-plugin allowlist. Wordfence, Sucuri, Cloudflare's WAF and APO all need to know about every new MCP endpoint or the OAuth callbacks silently 403 at the edge before your plugin ever sees them.

Royal MCP is one endpoint. Get /wp-json/royal-mcp/v1/mcp past your cache and security plugin once, and it keeps working as we add more integrations. Your AI still sees “your WordPress site,” not a growing list of URLs to babysit. And if a plugin ships its own MCP and you'd rather use their tools directly, Royal MCP doesn't interfere. You can run both side by side.

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