Royal MCP – Secure AI Connector for Claude, ChatGPT & any LLM via MCP vs OpenStation

wp-admin forgets. OpenStation doesn’t. You know the moment. You’re deep in a post and you need one image from the Media Library. You click over, find it, click back, and everything you had going is gone. Your scroll position, your half-typed thought, the three other things you had queued up in your head. That’s not a bug you hit. That’s the design. wp-admin shows you one screen at a time, and every navigation throws the last one away. It has worked this way since 2003, like a fridge that empties itself every time you close the door. WordPress has rebuilt almost everything else. The editor, the site editor, the patterns, the styles. The admin’s one-screen-at-a-time model is the layer nobody touched. OpenStation touches it. Install it and admin screens become draggable, resizable windows. Edit a post while the Media Library sits open next to it. Drag an image from one window straight into the other. Keep comments open in the corner. Reload the browser and your window layout — open pages, positions, sizes, and window states — comes back where you left it. OpenStation itself is free, GPL, and opt-in per user. One click in the admin bar turns it on for you. One click turns it off. Nobody else on your site sees anything change, and deactivating the plugin restores the classic admin exactly. No Core patches and no lock-in. Optional AI providers may charge for their service. Built and maintained by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, and Tumblr. Work on more than one thing at once Admin pages open as windows, including pages added by most other plugins. Drag them, resize them, snap them, tile them, minimize them to a taskbar. The admin menu becomes a dock of icons. Two editors open at once is one click away. Never lose your place Moving between open windows leaves each page in place. Across reloads, OpenStation remembers your open pages, window positions, sizes and states, virtual desktops, and focus. Closing a window with unsaved changes warns you first. A desk you can actually put things on Drop posts, media, and links right onto the wallpaper. Sort them into folders. Trash them to a Trash that actually holds things. The stuff you’re working on this week can just sit out where you can see it. One desktop per job Virtual desktops, the way your operating system does them. One for writing. One for the store. One for comment triage. One for that redesign you keep poking at. Switch between them without closing anything. Find anything with Cmd+K The full WordPress command palette, plus slash commands from your plugins, all under one keystroke. Turn on the optional AI assistant and you can ask it things like “which post had the comment asking for the recipe?” and it searches your own content to answer. (Requires an AI provider configured in Settings → Connectors on WordPress 7.0+. Details under “External services” below.) See how your site fits together The Corkboard is an interactive, zoomable map of how your posts, pages, and products link to each other. Pan around it. Find the orphans. Find the hubs. Running a store? Orders, Products, Coupons, and Customers become browsable folders with stock and sale ribbons. Open a customer to see their lifetime spend and what they buy most. Follow a product to its buyers, or a coupon to who redeemed it. Make it yours Wallpapers, from color presets to animated scenes to your own photo. Live widgets pinned to the desktop: drafts, stats, recent comments, a focus timer. Uploadable desktop themes, including a built-in Legacy theme that brings the old WordPress blue back in one click. And Mio, a soft-body desk companion that drifts across your wallpaper and gets bumped around by your windows. Off by default. You’ll turn it on. For developers Extend OpenStation through documented PHP and JavaScript APIs. Register windows, icons, wallpapers, widgets, commands, and settings tabs through stable openstation_register_* PHP APIs and a typed JavaScript API; customize dock items through documented hooks; add AI tools with the WordPress Abilities API. Copy-paste examples live in the developer docs on GitHub. External services No external service is required for OpenStation’s desktop interface. The optional AI Assistant and two user-initiated enrichment features make the external requests described below. AI Assistant The optional AI Assistant sends data to the AI provider you configure in WordPress’s Settings → Connectors (for example OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). Generation is routed through WordPress 7.0’s built-in AI Client, which supplies the credentials stored in Connectors. The plugin never handles an API key itself. With no provider configured in Connectors, no external AI requests are made. When the AI Assistant is enabled and a user invokes it (via Cmd+K or the slash-command palette): What is sent: the user’s prompt, the conversation history for the active session, and tool-call metadata. The plugin’s built-in tools (search_posts, search_pages, search_comments) run WordPress’s native keyword search and may include excerpts of the matching posts/pages/comments in tool results, which are then sent back to the provider as part of the agentic loop. When it is sent: on user-initiated AI requests, and (if an administrator enables “Score new comments with AI”) on comment-save hooks for spam analysis. Posts, pages, and taxonomy terms are not sent automatically. Why it is sent: to obtain model completions and tool-call decisions that drive the AI Assistant. Who provides the service: whichever provider you configured in Settings → Connectors. Which provider (and endpoint) receives the data depends entirely on that configuration. Review the chosen provider’s own terms and privacy policy (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). URL shortcut favicons When an authorized user creates a desktop shortcut to an external URL, OpenStation asks that URL for its page HTML and favicon so the shortcut can display the site’s icon. The request is made from your WordPress server and sends the requested URL, the server’s IP address, an OpenStation user-agent string, and normal HTTP request metadata to the operator of that site. This happens only when a user creates the shortcut. The destination site’s terms and privacy policy apply. WordPress.org plugin information When an authorized user opens or refreshes parts of OpenStation’s Plugins window, OpenStation may request public plugin details, update metadata, and review excerpts from WordPress.org. These requests send plugin slugs, the site’s locale, and normal HTTP request metadata to WordPress.org. This information is used only to display and manage plugins. Review the WordPress.org Privacy Policy. OpenStation’s OAuth relay does not contact a service by itself. Third-party plugins that configure the relay may contact their own providers and are responsible for disclosing those services. Credits OpenStation is brought to you by Automattic. The plugin is open source under GPLv2-or-later; contributions are welcome on GitHub. Third-party libraries The plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript library, loaded on demand only when a feature that needs it is in use: PixiJS (MIT License) — used by the Corkboard window, built-in canvas wallpapers (e.g. the animated WordPress logo), the Mio desk companion, and the Inkfall typing game. PixiJS is loaded from the plugin’s own assets/vendor/ directory; no CDN requests are made. Data files The Inkfall game’s word list (assets/games/inkfall/words.txt) is generated from the following sources (attribution also ships in the file’s header): FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (CC-BY-SA 4.0) — English word-frequency ranking derived from the OpenSubtitles corpus. english-words by dwyl (Unlicense) — used as a validity filter. LDNOOBW English list (CC-BY 4.0) — used as an exclusion filter.

The most complete WordPress MCP server — 200+ tools, OAuth 2.0, WebMCP-ready, and nothing leaves your site. Royal MCP gives Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Mistral, and every other MCP-compatible AI structured access to your WordPress site: 85 WordPress core tools plus 120 integration tools that auto-load for WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi, ACF, Yoast SEO, UpdraftPlus, WPForms, Solid Security, Contact Form 7, MonsterInsights, W3 Total Cache, Duplicator, BuddyPress, and more. Connect Claude to WordPress Royal MCP connects your WordPress site directly to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or Claude.ai. Setup takes a minute or less: install the connector, authorize, and start your chat. Edit Elementor with Claude First-time setup walkthrough: royalplugins.com/support/royal-mcp/connecting-to-claude/ Plugins with dedicated MCP tools WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi, Advanced Custom Fields, Yoast SEO, UpdraftPlus, WPForms, Solid Security, Contact Form 7, MonsterInsights, W3 Total Cache, Duplicator, BuddyPress, Redirection — plus every Royal Plugin (Royal AI Firewall, GuardPress, SiteVault, ForgeCache, Royal Ledger, Royal Links). Not seeing yours? MCP still works. WordPress core operations (posts, pages, media, users, taxonomies, custom fields, menus, options) cover most day-to-day AI workflows for any plugin — read/write ACF via wp_get_post_meta even without ACF-specific tools, edit posts on any custom post type, moderate any plugin’s comments. Shared SEO meta tools automatically work with Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress, and SEObolt. A dedicated integration layers specialized tools on top when that plugin exposes its own data model, request features/plugins support here on the wp.org support forum. Connect ChatGPT to WordPress ChatGPT on the web, desktop, and iOS supports MCP servers natively. Add Royal MCP in ChatGPT’s Plugins panel, authorize once, and ChatGPT can read your posts, publish drafts, update product prices, moderate comments, and audit SEO across your site — all through ordinary conversation. First-time setup walkthrough: royalplugins.com/support/royal-mcp/connecting-to-chatgpt/ Works with every MCP-compatible AI client Royal MCP is not vendor-locked. Claude/Anthropic, ChatGPT/OpenAI, Gemini/Google, Grok/xAI, Llama/Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen/Alibaba, Cohere, and Perplexity all work through MCP-compatible clients like Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Continue, Zed, JetBrains AI Assistant, OpenCode, Warp, Ollama, and LM Studio, all connecting through the same endpoint. Switch AI vendors without rewriting a single connection. Ready for browser-based AI agents (WebMCP) Royal MCP supports the W3C WebMCP browser-agent standard on the server side. When a visitor is signed into your site, browser-based AI agents from any WebMCP-compatible bridge (Cloudflare’s WebMCP is the first shipping today) can call the same MCP tools that Claude Desktop and ChatGPT already use, authenticated with the visitor’s existing WordPress login. Turn it on with one toggle in the Browser Agents section of the Royal MCP settings. External clients like Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, and Cursor continue to use OAuth Bearer tokens as before. How Royal MCP handles authorization Royal MCP speaks full OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591) for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT web, and every modern MCP client. Sessions expire, refresh automatically, and can be revoked globally with one button in wp-admin. Clients that don’t speak OAuth get timing-safe API-key auth, per-IP rate limits (60 requests per minute), and the same activity log for every tool call. Where do my credentials go? Nowhere. Your AI client authenticates straight to your WordPress site, and every API key, OAuth token, session, and audit-log entry stays inside your own database. There’s no hosted server sitting between your chat and your site, and no license check or telemetry reaching out on activation. Ollama and LM Studio are first-class platforms alongside Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini if you want to keep AI inference local too. Can I undo what the AI does? Yes. Every MCP client (Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, and the rest) asks you to approve or deny each destructive tool call by default, until you flip that setting in your connector. On top of that, Royal MCP captures a reverse-state snapshot before every destructive write and hands back a 72-hour undo token. One mcp_undo_last_operation call reverses the change — whether Claude deleted a post, replaced text on an Elementor page, updated a WooCommerce product, or reordered menu items. New posts and pages start as drafts, so nothing the AI writes appears on your live site until you approve publishing. Every tool call also lands in an activity log you can review from wp-admin. Does Royal MCP work with the WordPress Abilities API? Yes. Royal MCP surfaces every AI-callable operation through one endpoint, from three sources: the 85 native tools Royal MCP ships, the 120 integration tools that auto-load when WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi, ACF, Yoast SEO, UpdraftPlus, WPForms, Solid Security, Contact Form 7, MonsterInsights, W3 Total Cache, Duplicator, BuddyPress, and other supported plugins activate, and every ability any plugin registers through WordPress 6.9’s Abilities API. Your AI sees them all as MCP tools — one connector, no per-plugin setup, no per-vendor rewrite. See what AI agents do to your site The free Royal AI Firewall companion shows every AI agent hitting your site at the HTTP layer (training crawlers, retrieval bots, AI search engines), not just the ones connected through Royal MCP. Install both for a unified view across MCP tool calls and HTTP-layer bot hits. Discoverable by every AI agent scanner (Agent Readiness) Royal MCP publishes machine-readable MCP Server Card, Skills Index, and OAuth Protected Resource metadata at the standard well-known locations. Cloudflare’s Agent Readiness scanner, Vercel’s is-agentic, and Chrome Lighthouse’s Agentic Browsing audit all recognize your site as agent-ready with zero configuration. Every request to your MCP endpoint carries a Link header pointing agent runtimes at these discovery documents. 85 Core Tools + 120 Integration Tools WordPress Core (85 tools): Posts – create, read, update, delete, search, count (any registered public post type, featured images supported) Pages – full CRUD with parent page support Post Types – discover all registered public post types on the site Post Revisions – list revision history and roll a post back to any prior version Media – browse, upload from URL or base64, update alt text/caption/title/description, set as featured image, delete Comments – create, read, delete; full moderation suite (list pending, approve, mark spam, trash) Users – display names and roles (emails and usernames are not exposed) Categories, Tags & Custom Taxonomies – full CRUD, assign, count, discover registered taxonomies Term Meta – read/update/delete (most useful for term-level SEO fields on categories and tags) Menus – create menus, list, and full CRUD + reorder on menu items Publish and Promote – publish a draft and insert into a menu in one call Preview Links – generate a shareable draft-preview URL without a WP login Post Meta – read/update/delete custom fields (works with ACF, MetaBox, JetEngine, Pods, CPT UI) SEO Meta – read/write Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, or SEObolt title/description/focus keyword/robots/OG (auto-detects active plugin) SEO Audit – fetch a post’s rendered HTML and report title, meta description, canonical, viewport, OG, Twitter Card Widgets – list, list sidebars, update content (writes gated by theme-appearance admin toggle) Find and Replace – literal replace with dry-run preview, expected-count safety, read-after-write verification Undo – reverse the previous delete or reorder within 72 hours via mcp_undo_last_operation Site Info + Site Status – name, WP/PHP versions, active theme + plugins, cron activity — for AI-driven pre-write validation Error Log + Cron Schedule – read recent PHP errors and scheduled WP cron events Connection Health – MCP session diagnostic (route, auth method, session ID, plugin version) Plugins & Themes – list installed with active status Theme Appearance – get theme, read/write theme mods (gated), read/write Custom CSS Search + Permalink Structure – full-text content search; read/write permalinks (gated) Options – read allowlisted core options, read plugin settings (sensitive keys redacted), write to allowlisted options when enabled Third-Party Plugin Integrations (auto-detected) If the plugin is active on your WordPress site, it’s tools auto-register with no additional configuration needed. WooCommerce (29 tools) — full store CRUD: products (simple + variable), variations, global attributes (pa_*), coupons with bulk-trash purge, orders + notes, customers, and store statistics Elementor (11 tools, free + Pro) — clone a page with fresh element IDs, bulk text/image replacement across 12+ widget types, compact page outlines, widget-level settings reads, template library import/insert, post_content restoration on damaged pages (72-hour undo per write) Divi (9 tools, Divi 4 + Divi 5) — format detection, page outlines, layout validation, library reads, dry-run find-and-replace with active-editor-session detection, page cloning (D5 clientIds regenerated), image swaps, library-to-page apply in merge or replace mode (72-hour undo per write) Advanced Custom Fields (4 tools, free + Pro) — type-aware field reads (each field’s Return Format respected: hydrated post objects, parsed repeater rows, image arrays), bulk-read all fields on a post, type-aware writes, field-group enumeration Yoast SEO (5 tools) — read/write Yoast meta (raw + resolved), capture the JSON-LD schema graph, list indexed internal links, list Yoast Premium redirects UpdraftPlus (4 tools) — list backups, read status, trigger async backups with per-entity filtering (DB, plugins, themes, uploads), read the backup schedule WPForms (4 tools, free + Pro) — list forms, read a form’s field schema; submission access (list + read) requires WPForms Pro Solid Security (4 tools) — read the security dashboard, list currently locked-out IPs, read the security event log, add an IP to the ban list (also detects iThemes Security and Kadence Security Basic) Contact Form 7 (3 tools) — list forms, read a single form’s parsed field schema; submission access requires the Flamingo companion plugin MonsterInsights (4 tools) — read the analytics overview, top pages, traffic sources, and top Search Console queries W3 Total Cache (3 tools) — read cache config across every module, purge (all / by URL / by post), read cache usage stats Duplicator (3 tools) — list migration packages, read per-package status, get the installer URL for any completed package BuddyPress (4 tools) — list community members, read a single member profile, list groups, read the activity feed Redirection (4 tools) — list/create/update 301/302/307 redirects (with regex + group + status), list redirect groups Royal Plugins Integrations (auto-detected) Every Royal Plugin auto-exposes MCP tools alongside Royal MCP: Royal AI Firewall (6 tools) — review AI bot traffic, dashboard stats, and set allow/block/challenge policies per bot signature GuardPress (7 tools) — review your security score, run vulnerability scans, inspect failed logins and blocked IPs SiteVault (6 tools) — list backups, trigger new ones, check progress, review schedules ForgeCache (3 tools) — purge and inspect your page cache Royal Ledger (4 tools) — review recurring software costs and masked license entries Royal Links (3 tools) — manage branded short links and click stats Supported AI Platforms Claude (Anthropic) – Full MCP support via Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and VS Code OpenAI / ChatGPT – GPT-5.5, GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, o3 Google Gemini – Gemini 3.5 Flash, 3.1 Flash-Lite Groq – Llama 3.3, Llama 3.1, GPT-OSS Azure OpenAI – Azure-hosted OpenAI deployments AWS Bedrock – Claude, Llama, Titan models Ollama / LM Studio – Local self-hosted models (no external data transmission) Custom MCP Servers – Connect to any MCP-compatible endpoint Compatible Clients & Frameworks Royal MCP works with any MCP-compliant client, IDE, or AI agent framework — no per-tool configuration required. Each entry below describes the specific integration path Royal MCP provides for that target, so customers can answer “will this work with the tool I already use?”: Desktop AI apps – Claude Desktop (native MCP connector via OAuth 2.0), ChatGPT Desktop, Gemini Advanced. AI code IDEs – Claude Code, VS Code (with MCP extension), Cursor, Windsurf, Continue, Cline, Zed, JetBrains AI Assistant. API testing tools – Postman, Bruno, Insomnia (use the API key in the X-Royal-MCP-API-Key header). Custom field plugins – Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has dedicated acf_* tools that return values formatted per each field’s Return Format setting (the same way the ACF UI shows them). MetaBox, JetEngine, Pods, CPT UI, and Custom Field Suite are supported through the wp_get_post_meta / wp_update_post_meta tools, so AI agents can populate custom fields just like a human editor. Page builders – Elementor and Divi have dedicated tools for safe clone-and-customize workflows (Elementor: clone a page, find/replace text, swap images, get an outline, import templates; Divi: format detection, layout validation, page outline, library read, find/replace with builder-format awareness) – see the Tools list. Widget-level creation from scratch is intentionally out of scope. Beaver Builder, Bricks, Gutenberg, Spectra, and Stackable store standard post content that is readable and writable by AI; page-builder-specific JSON storage is opaque unless covered by a dedicated tool. Multilingual – WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress: translated posts appear as separate posts and can be read/written via the standard post tools. AI agent frameworks – Any MCP-compatible framework (LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, Haystack, etc.). MCP Spec Compliance Royal MCP implements the MCP Streamable HTTP transport across every published spec revision — 2024-11-05, 2025-06-18, 2025-11-25, and 2026-07-28 — negotiated on the initialize handshake so every client gets the wire behavior it expects: Single /mcp endpoint for all JSON-RPC communication POST for client messages, GET for server-sent events, DELETE for session termination Stateless per-request transport — sessions still supported for backwards compatibility but not required Cryptographically secure session IDs with transient-based storage when clients do use them Origin header validation to prevent DNS rebinding attacks Proper CORS handling for browser-based MCP clients W3C WebMCP browser-agent standard supported on the server side Machine-readable Agent Readiness signals published at the standard well-known paths RFC 8288 Link headers on every MCP response pointing agent runtimes at the discovery documents External Services Royal MCP makes no outbound calls of its own — no telemetry, no license check, no update ping. The MCP protocol is inbound: your AI client authenticates and calls your site, and any data the AI sees is sent under whatever terms you’ve agreed to with that AI provider.