WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site

Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation, with human approval at every step.

For most of the past six months, connecting an AI agent to your WordPress.com site has meant giving it a window. You could ask Claude or ChatGPT questions about your content, pull up site analytics, or check which posts hadn’t been updated in a year. Useful, but fundamentally passive.

On Friday, Automattic added a door.

WordPress.com has launched write capabilities for its Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, enabling AI agents to create and modify content directly on your site.

The update adds 19 new operations across six content types: posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, and media. From a single natural language prompt, an ...