What you can do with WordPress connected
This is the widest platform MCP Ads supports because WordPress itself is a platform of plugins, not one fixed feature set. Claude can work across core WordPress, Elementor, WooCommerce, and the individual plugins a site actually runs.
- Publish, edit, and audit content across posts, pages, and media
- Build Elementor layouts and sections directly
- Manage WooCommerce products, orders, and coupons
- Run accessibility and SEO audits (alt text, headings, schema, redirects)
- Work with the specific plugins a site has installed — from Amelia bookings to LearnDash courses to FluentCRM
How to connect a site that a CDN or firewall blocks
MCP Ads normally talks to WordPress over its REST API using an Application Password, generated once in wp-admin under Users → Profile → Application Passwords. Most sites need nothing more than that.
- Standard sites: site URL, WordPress username, and an Application Password — no plugin required
- Sites behind Cloudflare or a similar firewall that blocks /wp-json/ and xmlrpc.php: install the free MCP Ads Connector plugin, which answers over admin-ajax.php instead — the same WordPress REST router underneath, with every normal permission check still applied
- The plugin is not a new API surface: it accepts a REST method and route and hands it straight to WordPress's own request handler
- Neither path can bypass an IP-level block — if the firewall refuses this server's address entirely, that is outside what any application-level fix can solve
How to connect WordPress
Open the MCP Ads dashboard, choose WordPress, and enter the site URL, username, and Application Password. If the connection fails with a firewall-related error, install the MCP Ads Connector plugin from the dashboard's connection screen and try again.