MCP Expose Abilities gives an AI assistant one specific WordPress result

MCP Expose Abilities lets an authenticated AI assistant complete one specific WordPress result in the content you name.

Art Deco industrial MCP Expose Abilities control router with eleven WordPress work stations around a guarded permission console.

Describe the result. Keep the scope clear.

Give the assistant a concrete WordPress outcome, name the content to change, and say what must stay unchanged. That brief makes the result easier to inspect when the work is done.

A clear WordPress outcome

Turn a repetitive correction into one controlled result

Describe the WordPress result you want, then keep the request narrow enough to check when it is done.

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Name the result

State the content change in reader terms, such as making phone numbers clickable tel: links across 25 articles.

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Use the native WordPress surface

MCP Expose Abilities exposes 79 registered WordPress abilities through MCP, giving an AI assistant the native operation relevant to the result.

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Set the scope

Tell the assistant which content is in scope and what must stay unchanged. Keep the request narrow enough to check when it is done.

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Verify the result

Check the affected content against the task you named before expanding the request. The documented example made phone numbers clickable tel: links across 25 articles in 30 seconds; it is an example, not a general performance promise.

Ownership and access

Keep the WordPress outcome clear and the product boundary honest

This plugin exposes WordPress-native work. Vendor-specific behavior belongs elsewhere, so choose the surface that owns the result.

Core

Core WordPress ownership

MCP Expose Abilities provides the WordPress-native outcomes on this page. It does not claim product-specific behavior from third-party systems.

Add-ons

Optional vendor add-ons

Vendor-specific behavior belongs in separate optional add-on plugins. Choose an add-on only when the result depends on that vendor’s product.

Complete native surface

79 abilities across eleven WordPress outcome groups

Each group below states its exact ability count and the complete reader outcomes in that group.

7

Comments, 7 abilities

List comments, inspect one comment, create a comment or reply, update its status or author URL, or delete one comment.

27

Content, 27 abilities

Create a category, page, post, or tag. Delete a page or post. Find the next post, or inspect one page, post, or revision. List categories, media, pages, posts, revisions, tags, or users. Apply a bounded patch to a page or post. Restore a post or one revision. Search content. Update a category, discussion state, page, post, or tag.

5

Media, 5 abilities

Inspect one media attachment, upload media from a URL, upload validated file bytes, update an attachment, or delete an attachment.

8

Menus, 8 abilities

List menus, create a menu, assign it to a theme location, inspect its items, add an item, create or update one item without creating a duplicate, update an existing item, or remove an item.

3

Post metadata, 3 abilities

Read one named post metadata key, update that key, or delete that key under the shared metadata policy.

3

Options, 3 abilities

List available options, read one option, or make a targeted option update.

11

Plugins, 11 abilities

List installed plugins, list available updates, search the official plugin directory, activate a plugin, deactivate one, switch one plugin to the requested activation state, install from the directory, upload a package from a URL, upload validated package bytes, update a plugin, or delete one.

4

System diagnostics, 4 abilities

Inspect ability timings, inspect the debug log, read one named transient, or read and toggle the bounded debug state.

1

Taxonomy, 1 ability

Associate one native taxonomy with one post type.

7

Users, 7 abilities

Create, delete, inspect, list, or update users. Create a restricted WordPress Application Password, or revoke the Application Password used by the current authenticated request.

3

Widgets, 3 abilities

List available widgets, list registered sidebars, or inspect the configuration of one sidebar.

Required stack

Dependencies

These three components provide the native ability, runtime, and MCP connection layers.

Required for MCP client access

WordPress MCP Adapter

Exposes registered WordPress abilities to authenticated MCP clients.

Permission and protected settings

Let WordPress control what the assistant can change

The plugin keeps its most consequential boundary in WordPress itself: the authenticated MCP request must cross the site’s permission check, and protected bootstrap settings remain out of reach.

Permission

MCP transport permission

The MCP transport defaults to the WordPress manage_options capability. An authenticated request without that capability does not cross the default transport boundary.

Protected options

Protected bootstrap settings stay unchanged

Options such as template and stylesheet can affect theme bootstrap, so they are protected from MCP updates. The options update operation rejects protected option names instead of changing them through MCP.

Ready for a defined WordPress result

Download MCP Expose Abilities for one defined WordPress result

Download the stable MCP Expose Abilities ZIP to give an AI assistant a native WordPress surface for one defined result. You then have the plugin package to connect to your MCP client for the named WordPress change.