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

Run your WordPress site from Claude, ChatGPT or any AI app: write and edit content, manage your store, fix SEO and undo any change. Works alongside Elementor’s and WooCommerce’s own MCP tools. 100% self-hosted.

Royal MCP gives Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Mistral, and every other MCP-compatible AI structured access to your WordPress site: 109 WordPress core tools (including tool discovery and page verification) and 150 integration tools that auto-load for WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi, ACF, Yoast SEO, UpdraftPlus, WPForms, Solid Security, Wordfence, Contact Form 7, MonsterInsights, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, Duplicator, BuddyPress, TablePress, Code Snippets, WPCode, 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/

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/

Plugins with dedicated MCP tools

WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi, Advanced Custom Fields, Yoast SEO, UpdraftPlus, WPForms, Solid Security, Wordfence, Contact Form 7, MonsterInsights, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, Duplicator, BuddyPress, Redirection, TablePress, Code Snippets, WPCode, Complianz — 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.

Use it from any AI app

Connect once, then work on your site from whichever AI app you prefer, and switch apps without redoing the connection:

• Chat apps – Claude (web, desktop and Claude Code) and ChatGPT, signing in with OAuth.
• Code editors and terminals – Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and other MCP-capable editors, with OAuth or an API key.
• Local models – LM Studio and other local MCP clients, so prompts and site data can stay on your own machine.
• Scripts and agent frameworks – any MCP-compatible framework, or plain HTTP with Authorization: Bearer <key>.

Built to work alongside other MCP tools

Royal MCP is designed to run next to the MCP tools other plugins ship, so your AI can reach for the best tool for each part of a job. When Elementor’s own MCP is switched on, Royal MCP detects it and tells your AI that Elementor’s builder is there for designing new layouts, while Royal MCP’s Elementor tools keep handling edits to the pages you already have: text and image swaps, widgets, cloning and templates. WooCommerce’s own MCP abilities keep working too, and Royal MCP adds the rest of the store: coupons, variations, attributes, customers and store stats. Royal MCP answers on its own endpoint and never switches off another plugin’s tools, so together they cover more of your site than any one of them alone.

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. Every credential (API key, OAuth token, session, audit-log entry) stays inside your own WordPress database with no hosted middleman, no license check, and no telemetry; local models work too, through any MCP-capable client such as LM Studio, if you want fully-local AI inference.

Is there a preview/dry-run before writes?

Yes. High-blast writes like site options and your permalink structure accept a dry-run flag, so the AI can preview the exact change before committing. The response reports the current value, the proposed value, the size delta in bytes, and whether the option is autoloaded; for permalink changes, it also lists which public post types are affected and shows current-URL vs proposed-URL samples so you can spot the blast radius before rewrite rules flush. Pair that with the 72-hour undo token on every destructive write and you get preview, approve, commit, undo: a full safety loop that lets fully-autonomous agents work on a live production site without wiping it out.

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. Royal MCP also 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.

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.

113 Core Tools + 157 Integration Tools

WordPress Core (113 tools):

• Posts – create, read, update, delete, search, count, clone as a draft (any registered public post type, featured images supported)
• Pages – full CRUD with parent page support
• Blocks – read a post’s block tree; insert, replace, move and delete blocks by path; replace text inside blocks; change attributes of server-rendered blocks; check markup before writing. Works with core blocks and plugin blocks such as GenerateBlocks, Stackable, Spectra and GreenShift, keeps them valid in the editor, and every write has a revision and an undo token
• Patterns and Site Editor – list, read, create and update synced patterns; read global styles and block templates
• 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 images, PDFs and any other file type the site allows from a URL, base64 or a file handed over by ChatGPT; convert, resize and compress images on upload; find files already in the library by source URL or SHA-256 and reuse them instead of uploading twice; 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 and Recent Changes – reverse a tracked change within 72 hours via mcp_undo_last_operation; list recent changes and see each one’s value before, the value written and the value now, in the tools and in WP Admin
• 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 (14 tools, free + Pro) — clone a page with fresh element IDs, bulk text/image replacement across 12+ widget types, add widgets, compact page outlines, widget-level settings reads, widget schema and dynamic-tag discovery, 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)
• Wordfence (8 tools) — read the security status, firewall mode and scan findings, list blocked IPs, block or unblock an IP, read failed logins and blocked requests, start a scan
• 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
• LiteSpeed Cache (4 tools) — read cache status and the settings that shape caching, purge everything, purge specific pages by URL or post
• 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
• TablePress (6 tools) — list and read tables, create a table from rows, change cells (dry run + undo), copy a table, export as CSV, JSON or HTML
• Code Snippets (5 tools) — list and read snippets (credential values hidden in returned code), see recently deactivated snippets, deactivate a snippet that breaks the site, change a snippet’s name, description or tags; never creates, edits, activates or runs code
• Complianz (7 tools) — consent setup status, cookies, services, cookie banner texts and legal documents; change banner texts and cookie descriptions, with undo
• WPCode (3 tools, Lite + Pro) — list snippets, read one snippet’s settings and code (credential values hidden), read its status and last recorded error; read only

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 (4 tools) — purge and inspect your page cache, and read real-user Core Web Vitals
• Royal Ledger (4 tools) — review recurring software costs and masked license entries
• Royal Links (3 tools) — manage branded short links and click stats

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.