AcrossAI MCP Manager vs WPVibe – WordPress MCP Server. Connect Claude, ChatGPT & Any AI Agent via MCP

Connect ChatGPT to WordPress. Connect Claude to WordPress. Connect Grok to WordPress. Connect any MCP-compatible AI assistant to WordPress. MCP Manager is the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for WordPress — so ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Cline, Codex, and 5+ other AI clients can safely read, edit, and act on your site through WordPress-native Application Passwords. No copy-pasting configs between tabs; no proxy service in the middle; no vendor lock-in. Setup takes under a minute end-to-end via the Quick Setup wizard — install the plugin, click through the guided flow, paste the ready-made JSON into your AI client, done. Your first prompt to Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor lands on the same WordPress site you just configured. Every headline section below links to the full documentation at acrossai.co/doc-category/mcp-manager — the docs are the source of truth and get updated first. Source and issues live at github.com/acrossai-co/acrossai-mcp-manager. Key Features Multiple MCP servers per site — create, enable, disable, and configure independently. → Docs 16 built-in AI-client connection guides — copy-paste-ready configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Zed, Cline, Roo Code, Kilo Code, Amazon Q Developer, OpenCode, Antigravity, and a Custom Client template. New clients register via a filter callback. → Docs CLI browser-approval flow — let terminal users connect with one command; approval happens in a browser tab. → Docs WP-CLI (STDIO) transport — local clients can connect through a WP-CLI subprocess with no network credential transmission. → Docs Application Passwords under the hood — WordPress-native credentials, one-click generation, and revocation from the user profile page. → Docs Per-server tool and ability curation — pick exactly which WordPress abilities each MCP server exposes as callable tools. → Docs Per-server access control — gate every MCP request by user, role, capability, or your own policy provider. → Docs Frontend embeds — shortcode + block to show your users how to connect their AI clients from your own site. → Docs How It Works The Quick Setup wizard walks you through activation, password generation, and pasting the config — the whole path takes under a minute end-to-end and is the recommended way for a first-time install. Prefer to do it by hand? The six-step manual flow below is exactly the same underneath: Install and activate the plugin (step-by-step) Open AcrossAI → MCP in your WordPress admin Pick your AI client tab (Claude, VS Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, or Custom) Generate a new Application Password with one click Copy the ready-made JSON config and paste it into your client Restart your client — it now sees your site’s abilities Longer walkthrough with screenshots: Getting started → connect your first AI client. Connection Types MCP Manager ships with three connection styles out of the box, plus one optional paid add-on: MCP Client (npx bridge) — the default. Paste a JSON config into Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, etc. Uses @automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote@latest with a WordPress Application Password. → Docs CLI Connections (browser approval) — one command in the terminal, one click in the browser, zero password copying. → Docs WP-CLI (STDIO) — local subprocess, no network credential transmission. Best for CI or local dev boxes. → Docs AI Connectors (paid add-on) — one-click Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and Cursor hosted-OAuth connectors. Requires the separate AcrossAI Pro plugin (14-day money-back). → Docs Requirements WordPress 7.0 or higher PHP 8.1 or higher WordPress Application Passwords support (built-in since WP 5.6) Support Docs hub — acrossai.co/doc-category/mcp-manager Troubleshooting & FAQ — acrossai.co/docs/mcp-faq-troubleshooting Source code + issue tracker — github.com/acrossai-co/acrossai-mcp-manager Support & Contribution For issues, feature requests, or contributions, visit the plugin repository. Questions? Check the FAQ section or look for documentation in the plugin settings page. Development This plugin follows WordPress coding standards and best practices: – PHP 7.4+ compatible – Full object-oriented architecture – Secure nonce verification – Proper capability checks – Sanitized input validation – Escaped output License This plugin is licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later license. See LICENSE file for details. Credits MCP Manager is built with: – WordPress native APIs – Automattic’s MCP WordPress Remote package – WordPress Application Passwords system Developed with ❤️ for the WordPress community.

Your WordPress site just became MCP-ready. WPVibe is the Model Context Protocol server for WordPress, connecting your self-hosted site to any AI assistant or AI agent that speaks MCP: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, and more. No copy-pasting between tabs. No switching between your AI chat and wp-admin. Tell your AI what you want, and it happens on your live WordPress site. What People Are Saying “New WordPress Plugin Safely And Easily Connects AI To Your Website” (Search Engine Journal, July 2026) “The easiest setup of any AI product for WordPress, period. It’s so click-and-forget, and it absolutely smashes it for what you can do. It’s just mind-blowing.” (Jackson Whelan, WPTuts) Thousands of WordPress sites connected and over a million WordPress operations performed since launch. The Model Context Protocol Server for WordPress WPVibe is a complete MCP server implementation for WordPress. The Model Context Protocol, introduced by Anthropic and now adopted across the AI industry, lets AI assistants discover and call tools on connected services through a standard interface. WPVibe packages every meaningful WordPress operation (content management, media uploads, theme file browsing, REST API access, and plugin abilities) as MCP tools your AI can call. You install this free WordPress plugin, connect your site once, and every MCP-compatible AI client becomes a WordPress co-pilot. The WPVibe WordPress MCP server handles authentication, encrypts credentials with AES-256-GCM, and relays your AI’s tool calls to the WordPress REST API. Your WordPress site, your data, your choice of AI. Connect Claude to WordPress WPVibe is the easiest way to connect Claude to WordPress. Use it with Claude Desktop, Claude on the web, or Claude Code in your terminal. Once connected, ask Claude to draft a blog post, schedule an article, reorganize categories, update site settings, or run any WordPress task through conversation. Claude sees your WordPress site through the MCP bridge and responds with direct action, not just suggestions. Connecting Claude to WordPress takes about 30 seconds. Install WPVibe, open the plugin admin, click to authorize, then add the MCP server URL to Claude’s connectors. From that moment, Claude can manage WordPress content, search WordPress files, upload images, and interact with any WordPress plugin that exposes the Abilities API. Connect ChatGPT to WordPress WPVibe is the ChatGPT WordPress plugin that actually connects the two systems instead of wrapping an API key. ChatGPT supports MCP servers directly in the web app and the desktop app, so once you add your WPVibe MCP server URL, ChatGPT can read and write to your WordPress site through ordinary conversation. Ask ChatGPT to turn a Google Doc into a WordPress blog post, find and tag every customer who downloaded a specific resource, update your About page in your own writing voice, or bulk-publish a content calendar. ChatGPT handles the language and strategy, WPVibe handles the WordPress REST API calls behind the scenes. WPVibe is also an official connector in the ChatGPT Apps directory. Connect Cursor, Windsurf, and Every MCP-Compatible AI Agent WPVibe is not locked to a single AI vendor. Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Claude, and any other AI agent that supports the Model Context Protocol can connect through the same MCP server URL. One WordPress MCP server, every AI assistant, no integration rewrite when you switch tools. For developers, this means Cursor can edit your WordPress theme files with context-aware suggestions, Claude Code can run WordPress tasks as part of an agentic workflow, and Windsurf can scaffold new WordPress templates. For content creators and agencies, this means whichever AI writes best for your brand can publish directly to your WordPress site through the WPVibe MCP bridge. AI-Powered WordPress Content Management via MCP Managing WordPress content through MCP has never been easier. Create blog posts, update pages, upload media, manage categories and tags, all through natural conversation with your AI assistant. Tell Claude to write a draft post about your latest product launch, ask ChatGPT to update your about page, or have Cursor reorganize your blog categories. Your AI handles the REST API calls, so you never touch wp-admin. WPVibe works with every AI client that supports the Model Context Protocol, giving you the freedom to use Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, or any future MCP-compatible AI tool for WordPress management. WordPress Abilities API Support for MCP WordPress 6.9 introduced the Abilities API, a powerful way for plugins to declare self-describing operations that AI assistants can discover and execute. WPVibe fully supports this WordPress MCP integration. Your AI can discover what abilities your installed plugins expose, inspect their input schemas, and run them directly through natural conversation. This means AI-powered WordPress plugin management works automatically over MCP. If a plugin registers abilities (WPForms, SeedProd, and others are adopting this standard), your AI assistant can interact with it without any custom integration. The WordPress Abilities API and WPVibe together make every compatible plugin MCP-ready. WooCommerce, Elementor, Bricks, and Your Other Plugins WPVibe works with the plugins already running your site. For WooCommerce, your AI can review the store, manage products, and bulk-edit prices, stock, and descriptions through conversation, so updating fifty product pages no longer means fifty trips through wp-admin. Page builders get dedicated support. Elementor, Bricks, Breakdance, Beaver Builder, and Divi pages are written through each builder’s own save pipeline, so the result opens in the builder like a hand-built page. Built-in skills cover Gutenberg, Kadence, GeneratePress (including GP Premium Elements), and SeedProd. Other plugins work through their own REST APIs or the WordPress Abilities API, and custom fields (including ACF fields, which are post meta under the hood) are read and written correctly, including on custom post types. Safely Edit WordPress Theme Files WPVibe lets your MCP client browse and edit your WordPress theme files safely. Your AI can list files, search file contents, analyze code structure, and make edits through a draft theme workflow. The draft clones the active WordPress theme into a sandbox, makes changes there, and exposes a preview URL so you can see the results before going live. Your live WordPress site is never touched until you explicitly approve and publish. Every file operation runs through WordPress capability checks, a path sandbox scoped to the draft theme, and PHP syntax validation before save. You keep the safety of wp-admin’s file editing guardrails while giving your AI a real place to work. WordPress WP-CLI Commands over MCP Run WordPress administration commands through your MCP client. Activate plugins, switch themes, update options, flush caches, query the database, run serialized-data-aware search-replace with a dry run, and more, all via native PHP dispatch with a security-first command allowlist. Everything is emulated through PHP, so it works on shared hosting with no shell and no SSH. Your AI gets a productive WordPress admin surface without the risks of raw command execution. Approvals You Can See, and an Audit Log WPVibe does not open your site to the world. Access runs through WordPress’s own encrypted Application Passwords, revocable in one click. When your AI asks for something destructive (deleting a user, mutating the database, uninstalling a plugin), WPVibe pauses and shows an approval panel in the chat with the exact operation, a dry-run preview, and Approve or Decline buttons. Nothing irreversible happens without you. Every sensitive action is recorded in an append-only Approval Log in wp-admin, with the preview you saw and the result. Posts default to draft, deletes go to trash, and theme publishing keeps a backup so you can roll back. Smart MCP Notifications on Your WordPress Admin Every change your AI makes over MCP triggers a smart notification in your browser with a direct link to view or edit the updated content. The notification knows whether you are in the WordPress admin or on the frontend and adapts the link, so your workflow is never disrupted while your AI works in the background. One-Click WordPress MCP Authorization Connecting your WordPress site to an MCP server should take seconds. No application passwords typed by hand, no API keys copied between tabs: provide your site URL, click the authorization link that appears in your WordPress admin, and approve the connection. Credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM and stored securely on Cloudflare-hosted WPVibe servers. One click, done. WordPress MCP Server for Every Use Case Whether you are a blogger, a developer building WordPress themes, or an agency managing client sites, WPVibe works through whichever MCP client you already use. Bloggers and Content Creators write and publish posts, manage media, organize categories and tags, and update site settings through conversation with Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP assistant. WordPress Developers and Designers browse and edit theme files with a safe draft-preview-publish workflow, or build classic themes from scratch, directly from Cursor, Claude Code, or your favorite MCP client. Agencies and Site Managers connect every client site and run updates across all of them from one panel, use the Abilities API to work with installed plugins, and turn on white label mode (free on every plan) so clients see a clean wp-admin while you manage the site through your AI. Full WPVibe MCP Server Feature List One-click WordPress MCP server connection with AES-256 encrypted credential storage and OAuth magic-link sign-in (no passwords typed into chat) AI content management: posts, pages, media, categories, and tags through conversation, with surgical find-and-replace edits in posts, meta, and options Fleet updates: update plugins, themes, and WordPress core across every connected site from one panel, with a recheck before and a version verification after each update WooCommerce management: review the store and bulk-edit products, prices, stock, and descriptions Page builder integrations: Elementor, Bricks, Breakdance, Beaver Builder, and Divi through each builder’s own save pipeline Human-in-the-loop approvals with a dry-run preview, plus an append-only Approval Log in wp-admin Full WordPress REST API and Abilities API access as MCP tools, including custom post types and plugin routes WP-CLI style commands (plugins, themes, users, comments, options, database) through native PHP dispatch, no shell required Theme editing with a draft-preview-publish workflow, sandboxed file operations, PHP syntax validation, and a classic theme builder Media uploads from URLs and Unsplash stock photo search Works with Claude Desktop, Claude on the web, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, and any MCP-compatible AI agent On-demand skills that teach your AI the right approach for each WordPress task, and smart live-reload notifications in wp-admin Third-Party Service This plugin connects to the WPVibe service at wpvibe.ai to relay requests between your AI assistant and your WordPress site over the Model Context Protocol. When you connect your site, a WordPress application password is created and encrypted with AES-256-GCM on WPVibe servers hosted on Cloudflare. All communication between the plugin and the WPVibe MCP service occurs over HTTPS. No data is collected, tracked, or shared with third parties beyond what is necessary to relay your AI assistant’s MCP requests to your WordPress REST API. Your content stays on your WordPress server. On WPVibe’s own authorization page (the Approve screen an authorize link opens), if your site’s REST API answers the approval request with a firewall page or no response, the plugin reports that outcome to the WPVibe service (the HTTP status, whether the answer was a page or JSON, and the security vendor if recognised; never page content) so support can see what blocked the connection. Nothing is reported on a successful approval. Privacy Policy Third-Party Libraries WPVibe bundles one third-party JavaScript library for use inside scaffolded classic starter themes: Alpine.js v3.15.12, MIT License, https://alpinejs.dev/, included at starter-themes/classic/assets/js/alpine.min.js. Used as the interactivity layer (modals, dropdowns, tabs, accordions, sliders) for AI-generated classic themes. Not loaded outside scaffolded themes. Built by SeedProd WPVibe is built by the team behind SeedProd, the most popular WordPress landing page and theme builder plugin, trusted by over 1 million WordPress websites. We have been building WordPress tools since 2012. Better Than Custom AI WordPress Integrations If you have connected AI to WordPress before, you have probably dealt with custom API wrappers, hand-rolled Custom GPTs, or copying content between Claude and your browser. WPVibe replaces all of that with a proper WordPress MCP server on an open standard supported by Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, and a growing list of AI tools. Connect once, use any MCP client, no custom code to maintain. Unlike bundled-AI plugins that ship one model and one prompt style, WPVibe lets you bring your own AI and use whichever model reasons best for each task. Your content stays on your WordPress server. Branding Guidelines This plugin is a product of SeedProd LLC. The product name is WPVibe, one word, everywhere: the plugin, wpvibe.ai, the documentation, and the in-product UI. When writing about it, please use WPVibe rather than WPvibe, Wp Vibe, WP Vibe, or VibeAI. WordPress MCP Server Resources WPVibe WordPress MCP Documentation Privacy Policy