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AcrossAI MCP Manager turns your WordPress site into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.<\/strong> Claude, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex, Windsurf, Zed and more connect straight to your site and can read, write and act on it \u2014 using WordPress's own Application Passwords, with per-server access control you configure.<\/p>\n\n The Model Context Protocol is the standard Anthropic introduced and the AI industry adopted: it lets an AI assistant discover and call tools on a service through one common interface. This plugin implements that server inside WordPress, so any MCP-capable AI becomes a WordPress co-pilot.<\/p>\n\n Setup takes about a minute<\/strong> via the Quick Setup wizard<\/a> \u2014 install, click through the guided flow, paste the ready-made JSON into your AI client, done.<\/p>\n\n Documentation:<\/strong> acrossai.co\/docs<\/a> \u00b7 Use cases:<\/strong> acrossai.co\/use-cases<\/a> \u00b7 Integrations:<\/strong> acrossai.co\/integrations<\/a> \u00b7 Full changelog:<\/strong> acrossai.co\/changelog<\/a><\/p>\n\n Every section below links to the relevant page. Source and issues live at github.com\/acrossai-co\/acrossai-mcp-manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n This is the part worth reading twice, because it is the main thing that separates this plugin from the alternatives.<\/p>\n\n There is no middleman.<\/strong> The free plugin makes zero outbound HTTP requests of its own \u2014 no telemetry, no phone-home, no proxy, no hosted relay. Your MCP endpoint is a route on your own site, and your AI client talks to it directly. The That means your content never passes through a third party's infrastructure<\/strong>, there is no account to create with us to make it work, no service that has to stay online for your site to keep working, and nothing to migrate if you stop using the plugin. Your credentials are WordPress Application Passwords, issued by your own site and revocable from your own profile page.<\/p>\n\n A plugin that relays your site through its vendor's servers has to disclose that. This one has nothing to disclose.<\/p>\n\n Works with Claude Desktop<\/strong>, Claude Code<\/strong> in the terminal, and Claude on the web. Open the server's connect tab, pick Claude, generate an Application Password with one click, copy the ready-made JSON into the config file path the screen shows you, and restart Claude. From then on, ask Claude to draft a post, fix a page, audit site health or reorganise a taxonomy, and it acts on your live site rather than describing what you should click.<\/p>\n\n \u2192 Connect an AI client<\/a><\/p>\n\n ChatGPT and Grok connect through AI Connectors<\/strong>, the one-click flow in the separate AcrossAI Pro<\/a> add-on (Pro)<\/em>. Pro covers Claude, Gemini and Cursor the same way \u2014 paste one URL, approve the consent screen on your own site, done. No config file to edit.<\/p>\n\n Worth knowing: Pro does not change the no-middleman model. The OAuth server runs on your own site<\/strong>, not on ours \u2014 there is still no third-party cloud between your AI and your WordPress.<\/p>\n\n Everything else on this page \u2014 all 16 built-in clients, every server, every access rule \u2014 is free.<\/p>\n\n \u2192 AI Connectors<\/a><\/p>\n\n Pick your client and the plugin renders the exact config file path, the exact top-level key that client expects, and copy-paste-ready JSON:<\/p>\n\n Claude Desktop<\/strong> \u00b7 Claude Code<\/strong> \u00b7 VS Code<\/strong> \u00b7 GitHub Copilot<\/strong> \u00b7 Codex<\/strong> \u00b7 Cursor<\/strong> \u00b7 Gemini CLI<\/strong> \u00b7 Cline<\/strong> \u00b7 Roo Code<\/strong> \u00b7 Kilo Code<\/strong> \u00b7 Amazon Q Developer<\/strong> \u00b7 OpenCode<\/strong> \u00b7 Antigravity<\/strong> \u00b7 Windsurf<\/strong> \u00b7 Zed<\/strong> \u00b7 and a Custom Client<\/strong> template for anything else that speaks MCP.<\/p>\n\n Every one uses the same transport underneath, so nothing is second-class. A new client can be registered from your own code through a filter \u2014 no fork required.<\/p>\n\n On its own, this plugin is the server, the security and the plumbing. Install the free<\/strong> companion AcrossAI Abilities Manager<\/a> and your AI gains 357 abilities across 14 toolsets on any WordPress site<\/strong>, rising to over 800 across 32 toolsets<\/strong> as it detects the plugins you already run.<\/p>\n\n Plugins you already run get dedicated toolsets<\/strong>, active only when that plugin is: WooCommerce, Elementor (and Pro), Rank Math, Yoast SEO, LiteSpeed Cache, Contact Form 7, WPCode, CookieYes, WP Mail SMTP, The Events Calendar, Event Tickets, Loco Translate, Classic Editor, Advanced Custom Fields, Akismet, WPForms, UpdraftPlus and All-in-One WP Migration.<\/p>\n\n \u2192 Browse every integration<\/a><\/p>\n\n Nobody should hand an AI assistant their whole site by default, so this plugin does not.<\/p>\n\n \u2192 Tools and abilities<\/a><\/p>\n\n A brand-new MCP server requires The gate is deliberately fail-closed<\/strong>: if the access-control package is unavailable, a server falls back to administrator-only rather than opening up.<\/p>\n\n \u2192 Access control<\/a><\/p>\n\n Create as many servers as you need, each with its own route, namespace, version, enable switch, tool set, ability exposure, access rules and connect message. One locked-down read-only server for a client's AI and one full-access server for yourself, on the same site, without interfering with each other.<\/p>\n\n \u2192 MCP servers<\/a><\/p>\n\n Everything above this point is free. AcrossAI Pro<\/a> is a separate plugin that adds the following, and nothing here is required to run an MCP server:<\/p>\n\n Pro keeps the same model as the free plugin: it runs on your own server, with no third-party cloud<\/strong>, and actions are never metered or credited. Plans start at a 30-day free trial with no card required<\/strong>, and every plan carries a 14-day money-back guarantee<\/strong>. Local and staging sites do not count against your site limit.<\/p>\n\n \u2192 Plans and pricing<\/a> \u00b7 AI Connectors docs<\/a><\/p>\n\n Site owners<\/strong> write, edit and publish through conversation with the AI they already pay for, without learning a new admin screen and without their content touching a third party.<\/p>\n\n Developers<\/strong> get a real WordPress MCP server with a documented extension surface: register a client, a server tab, a connect method or a server type through filters, no fork required. WP-CLI STDIO keeps credentials off the network entirely on local boxes.<\/p>\n\n Agencies<\/strong> run a separate server per client site with its own access rules, hand each client an AI connection scoped to exactly what they should reach, and keep an audit log of terminal approvals.<\/p>\n\n \u2192 Real-world use cases<\/a><\/p>\n\n WordPress 6.9 introduced the Abilities API so plugins can declare self-describing operations an AI can discover and run. This plugin exposes those abilities as MCP tools, which means any plugin that registers abilities becomes reachable by your AI with no custom integration<\/strong> \u2014 including your own.<\/p>\n\n The free plugin sends nothing anywhere. No analytics, no usage reporting, no external service.<\/p>\n\n The only outbound connection is WordPress core's own plugin installer reaching WordPress.org, and only when you<\/em> click to install a companion plugin from the setup wizard.<\/p>\n\n Uninstalling is non-destructive by default<\/strong>: your servers, rules and logs survive unless you explicitly tick the delete-all-data option first.<\/p>\n\n Clients, server tabs, connect methods and server types are all registered through filters \u2014 Optionally, with AcrossAI Pro<\/a>: one-click connectors for five AI vendors, an OAuth 2.1 server on your own site, a connections dashboard, membership-aware access control across 10 platforms, 276 more abilities, and an n8n connection in Beta. See the section above for detail.<\/p>\n\n For issues, feature requests, or contributions, visit the plugin repository.<\/p>\n\n Questions? Check the FAQ section or look for documentation in the plugin settings page.<\/p>\n\n This plugin follows WordPress coding standards and best practices:\n- PHP 7.4+ compatible\n- Full object-oriented architecture\n- Secure nonce verification\n- Proper capability checks\n- Sanitized input validation\n- Escaped output<\/p>\n\n This plugin is licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later license. See LICENSE file for details.<\/p>\n\n MCP Manager is built with:\n- WordPress native APIs\n- Automattic's MCP WordPress Remote package\n- WordPress Application Passwords system<\/p>\n\n Developed with \u2764\ufe0f for the WordPress community.<\/p>\n\n\n Global options \u2014 CLI connections, ability-discovery page size and uninstall behaviour \u2014 live under AcrossAI \u2192 Settings \u2192 MCP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n To install manually, upload the plugin folder to Full FAQ + troubleshooting lives at acrossai.co\/docs\/mcp-faq-troubleshooting<\/a>. Quick answers below.<\/p>\n Yes, entirely \u2014 and so is the AcrossAI Abilities Manager<\/a> add-on that supplies the abilities. Both are on WordPress.org under GPL.<\/p>\n\n The only paid piece is AcrossAI Pro<\/a>, which adds one-click connectors for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini and Cursor, an n8n connection, an OAuth 2.1 server that runs on your own site, a connections dashboard, membership-aware access control across 10 platforms, and extra plugin toolsets. It starts with a 30-day free trial and no card. Everything else described on this page works without paying anyone.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. The plugin makes no outbound HTTP requests of its own \u2014 no telemetry, no relay, no proxy. Your MCP endpoint is a route on your own site and your AI client talks to it directly; the You need an AI client that speaks MCP, and you bring your own. This plugin never charges for AI usage and never runs inference \u2014 it exposes your WordPress site as a set of tools your AI can call.<\/p><\/dd>\n Sixteen built-in clients ship with the free plugin \u2014 every one gets a ready-to-paste JSON snippet and its own tab:<\/p>\n\n ChatGPT and Grok<\/strong> connect through the paid AcrossAI Pro<\/strong> add-on's one-click connectors (Pro)<\/em>, which also cover Claude, Gemini and Cursor and run their OAuth on your own site rather than through anyone's cloud. Adding a brand-new client is a filter callback. See Connecting an AI client<\/a>.<\/p><\/dd>\n It can only do what you allow. New servers are administrator-only until you add an access rule; you choose which abilities each server exposes at all; and every ability still runs WordPress's own capability check for the connecting user, so reaching it through MCP grants nothing extra.<\/p>\n\n With the Abilities Manager add-on, roughly half the catalogue is annotated read-only and only about 13% is flagged destructive. Higher-risk operations require an explicit confirmation flag, search-and-replace is a dry run unless you say otherwise, file access is confined to an administrator-defined path allowlist, and secrets such as database credentials and auth salts are stripped out of file and log reads.<\/p><\/dd>\n With the free Abilities Manager add-on: 357 abilities across 14 toolsets on any site \u2014 content, blocks, appearance, users, configuration, database, files, cron, cache, updates and diagnostics \u2014 rising to over 800 across 32 toolsets as it detects plugins such as WooCommerce, Elementor, Rank Math, Yoast SEO, ACF and LiteSpeed Cache. Without the add-on, the plugin still serves whatever abilities WordPress and your other plugins have registered.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. This plugin is a complete MCP server on its own and will expose any abilities registered by WordPress or other plugins. The add-on is what gives your AI a large, curated catalogue to work with, and the setup wizard offers to install it for you.<\/p><\/dd>\nYour Site Is the MCP Server \u2014 No Relay, No Third Party<\/h4>\n\n
npx<\/code> bridge that some clients use runs on your own computer<\/em>, not on anyone's server.<\/p>\n\nConnect Claude to WordPress<\/h4>\n\n
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acrossai_mcp_client_classes<\/code>, acrossai_mcp_manager_server_tabs<\/code>, acrossai_mcp_manager_connect_methods<\/code>, acrossai_mcp_server_types<\/code> \u2014 plus action hooks on access-control denials and CLI approvals. Add your own from a plugin of your own.<\/p>\n\nFull Feature List<\/h4>\n\n
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Does my content go to a third party?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
npx<\/code> bridge runs on your own machine. The only external call is WordPress core's plugin installer, and only when you click to install a companion plugin.<\/p><\/dd>\nDo I need an AI subscription?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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What can the AI actually do once connected?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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Can I give one AI access to everything and another almost nothing?<\/h3><\/dt>\n