MCP Expose Abilities: give your AI assistant WordPress tools
A phone number needs correcting in three articles. A menu label has changed. A useful image still has no alt text. Connect your AI assistant to WordPress and let it work on the items you name.
The missing connection between a request and a change
Your AI client interprets the request. The WordPress MCP Adapter carries it to the site. MCP Expose Abilities supplies the tools that read and change WordPress content.
The plugin does not include an AI model. You need a compatible client and an authenticated connection before the assistant can use the tools.
The coupling represents the connection: the assistant reaches pages, media and menus through the tools available on the site.
Start with work you can check
The plugin provides 79 core WordPress tools. These are four useful starting points; ask the assistant to read the current state before making a change.
Correct selected content
Read a page or post, replace specified text, update its title or excerpt, or create a draft. Name the exact items and the change you want.
Keep navigation current
Change a menu label or destination, add an item, or move it to a different position. A label-only edit preserves the existing destination and stored position.
Improve media records
Inspect an attachment and update its title, caption or alt text. Upload a new file when the job needs a new image.
Inspect the site before maintenance
List installed plugins and pending updates, inspect a named setting, or read diagnostic information. Review consequential changes before asking the assistant to carry them out.
One correction. Three named articles.
For example: “Make the existing phone numbers clickable in these three articles. Keep the displayed numbers and surrounding text.” Give the assistant the article URLs, then use this sequence.
1. Read the originals
Identify the exact numbers and pages. Resolve any inconsistent number before changing links.
2. Make the specified edit
Change the phone links on those pages. Preserve the surrounding content and block structure.
3. Check the saved result
Read the saved content, open each article and test the links. A successful tool response is not a substitute for checking the result.
Install the parts your site needs
Use WordPress 6.9 or later, PHP 8.0 or later, this plugin and the WordPress MCP Adapter. For Gutenberg content writes, add MCP Abilities Block Editor. Its syntax checks complement validation in the native editor.
Product-specific work needs the matching tools: for example, the GeneratePress add-on for GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks. Install add-ons for the products you actually use.
WordPress permissions still apply
MCP access requires the WordPress manage_options capability by default. Each operation also checks its own permissions. The plugin restricts protected settings such as the active theme’s template and stylesheet options.
Some operations require an explicit confirmation field. Others can apply changes immediately. Agree the scope in your client before requesting edits, plugin changes or deletions.
Connect the tools. Start with one page.
Install the ZIP, configure the MCP Adapter and connect your client. Ask it to read one page first. Then give it one specific correction and check the saved result.