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170+ MCP tools. OAuth 2.0. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & any MCP agent to your WordPress site. 100% self-hosted.
Royal MCP is a WordPress plugin that connects various AI clients, including Claude and ChatGPT, directly to your WordPress site. It allows these AI tools to perform tasks such as reading posts, publishing drafts, and updating product prices through conversational commands. The setup process is quick, requiring just installation and authorization.
This plugin is designed for users who want to integrate AI capabilities into their WordPress sites without compromising security. It ensures that all authentication and data remain on your server, providing a level of control and privacy for your site's operations.
Best for: This plugin suits WordPress site owners looking to leverage AI tools for content management and automation.
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Royal MCP offers a robust solution for integrating AI with WordPress while prioritising security and user control. It may be particularly useful for those familiar with AI technologies.
Royal Plugins's own description of Royal MCP, lightly tidied.
The most complete WordPress MCP server — 170+ tools, OAuth 2.0, 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 99 integration tools that auto-load for WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi, Advanced Custom Fields, Yoast SEO, UpdraftPlus, WPForms, and more.
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.
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First-time setup walkthrough: royalplugins.com/support/royal-mcp/connecting-to-claude/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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