WordPress MCP

I’ve still got all my WordPress sites on Pressable and happily so; I think they do a good job! They do everything you’d expect a WordPress host to do. The things I specifically like are:

• Customer support is good/fast, including free movement of sites
• Deploying from a GitHub repo is a first-class citizen
• Perfectly good DNS management
• No need for extra security, performance, or update plugins
• Things are generally with-the-grain of the WordPress ecosystem

On that last point, I appreciated this little one-clicker:

With that on (and presumably because I also use Jetpack and thus WordPress.com?), I can auth an agent like Claude Code that supports MCPs and get it connected.

Now I can, for instance, tell my agent to go make a draft blog post quick about something I’m thinking about, so I won’t forget about it.

Just to be meta, I’ll have it look at this blog post and make sure I don’t say anything weird about elephants.

And it easily caught me!

I think I’m more likely to use this for very rote tasks like making sure my headers are Title Case, and things are formatted like I want them to be, matching a style guide.

I think it pairs nicely with having a “SKILL.md” file for it, which can be home-base for a style guide like that. The skill could have stuff in it like “only ever touch draft blog posts”, “make sure blocks of code are labelled for what type of code they are”, “make sure images are self-hosted”, “make sure anything I’m linking to looks correct and the link is valid”.

I friggin’ hate AI slop writing, so please know I have no interest in automating anything around that.

But as someone who has authored and edited one billion blog posts, some intelligent automation of certain rote tasks is appealing.