NIBWP – Self-Hosted MCP Server – Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor & Any AI Agent via MCP

What your AI can do over MCP (free plugin)

Once your MCP client is connected, NIBWP exposes these WordPress capabilities as MCP tools:

• Read and write posts, pages and custom post types (create, update, delete, search).
• Manage categories, tags and custom taxonomy terms .
• Work with media , comments , navigation menus and users .
• Read and write post, term and user meta – including custom fields (ACF, Meta Box, Pods, JetEngine), since they are stored as standard meta.
• Read site info and statistics and allow-listed WordPress options .
• Use a per-site key/value memory store so the assistant can remember context across calls.
• Perform allow-listed, read-only filesystem and directory lookups scoped to your WordPress install.

Also included free

• Agent View – a live window onto your own site: watch each page your assistant opens and each change it makes, with a running list of what was done. Anything that changes something stops for your approval.
• AI Jobs – outcome-first maintenance from wp-admin: find broken links, run a security scan, check for updates, clean up the database. NIBWP plans the work, asks before changing anything, and reports back in plain English. Run on demand or on a daily or weekly schedule.
• NIBWP Design – reads your site’s own colors, fonts and spacing and decides how a page should look before anything is built, so what your assistant makes belongs to your brand.
• Audit Log – every AI action recorded locally for review, debugging and client reporting.
• Status – checks your connection end to end and says in plain words what is wrong and how to fix it.

Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor & any MCP client

• Claude Desktop – add the MCP endpoint shown on the Connect screen and ask Claude to read, draft and update your posts, media, menus and memory store through conversation.
• Claude Code – wire NIBWP into your Claude Code session and let your AI read and write the live site as part of an agentic build workflow – ideal for agencies and developers working on real WordPress installs.
• ChatGPT & Google Gemini – connect the MCP endpoint as a custom connector and work with your site from the assistant you already pay for.
• Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, JetBrains, Neovim – add the endpoint as an MCP tool server in your editor and query or update WordPress data without leaving your IDE.
• Any MCP client – GitHub Copilot, Cline, Warp, Raycast, Perplexity, Ollama and LM Studio all connect over the same authenticated HTTP MCP endpoint. 15+ clients are supported with copy-paste setup.

Built on the official WordPress Abilities API

WordPress 6.9 shipped the Abilities API – the official mechanism for plugins to register typed, AI-callable functions. NIBWP bundles the official wordpress/mcp-adapter and exposes your site through it, so your install is MCP-ready in a way that stays aligned with WordPress core’s AI roadmap – no proprietary, soon-to-diverge protocol layer.

How it compares

Some WordPress MCP plugins route every request through their own cloud servers – your content leaves your site. Others bolt on a custom API-key system and a large proprietary tool set. NIBWP takes the opposite approach: 100% self-hosted (no external relay), built on WordPress core (Abilities API + Application Passwords), with a focused, capability-checked ability set – free and no account . The MCP endpoint never sends your content anywhere; the few optional online features are listed under External services below.

NIBWP Pro

The free plugin is fully functional on its own. NIBWP Pro – a paid upgrade at https://nibwp.com, not included in this free plugin – adds 190+ typed MCP tools across 66 integrations , plus agent tooling built for people who run real sites and real client portfolios.

• Integrations – 66 plugin and theme integrations turn WooCommerce, ACF, the page builders, forms, SEO and LMS plugins into schema-typed MCP tools, so the agent calls a plugin’s own API instead of guessing at meta keys.
• Pro Skills – builder-aware skill packs that turn a screenshot, URL, HTML or Figma frame into a validated, on-system build.
• Workflows – a structured playbook NIBWP injects as mandatory instructions: triggers, principles, ordered process steps, hard constraints, validation checks and a client-ready report. 18 default playbooks ship across nine categories (site building, SEO audits, content, WooCommerce setup, pre-launch checklists and more). Keep a workflow private to one site, share it across every site on your license, or publish it to the community Library. Define it once, run it on site one and site one hundred.
• Figma – pull a file, page, frame or node into the agent’s working context, analyse its structure, detect which builder powers the site, and convert a frame or component into native WordPress output.
• User Access – choose exactly which administrators can see and use NIBWP.
• Safety controls – read-only safe mode, per-action permissions, force-draft, rate limits, sandboxed PHP and file operations, and granular permissions across 15+ AI clients.

Pro Skills – design in, validated build out

Skills teach an agent a specific builder or framework so the output is correct, on-system and production-ready – not a guess:

• Bricks Pro – screenshot, URL, image or Figma frame to validated Bricks templates.
• Elementor Pro – HTML, URL, image or mockup to an editable, validated Elementor widget tree with global classes and dynamic tags.
• EtchWP Pro – HTML, URL, image or Figma to validated EtchWP components with BEM + ACSS tokens.
• ACSS Pro – generate a working Automatic.css configuration from a screenshot, HTML/CSS or live URL.
• Kadence Pro – native, editable Kadence Blocks from a screenshot or HTML.
• Breakdance Pro – AI-assisted, validated Breakdance builds.
• Voxel Pro – Voxel directory and listing work driven by the agent.
• Figma Pro – build a Figma frame natively inside your page builder.
• Tutor LMS Builder – turn a brief, outline, transcript or URL into a complete, validated Tutor LMS course with topics, lessons and quizzes.
• Tutor Course Mini-site – generate a full mini-site around a Tutor LMS course.

MCP tools per plugin and theme (Pro)

Each integration registers its own set of typed MCP tools. Ability counts per plugin or theme:

• Page builders and themes – Builderius (21), Breakdance (14), Voxel (13), Bricks Builder (9), Divi (8), Elementor (7), Etch (7), Kadence (6), GeneratePress (6).
• Design systems – Figma (7), Automatic.css (4), plus the ACSS Pro (5), Bricks Pro (5), EtchWP Pro (5) and Elementor Pro skill packs.
• Custom fields – Advanced Custom Fields (8), ACPT (1), JetEngine (1), Meta Box (1), Pods (1).
• E-commerce and donations – WooCommerce (16), SureCart (9), FluentCart (5), Easy Digital Downloads (4), GiveWP (3).
• Forms – WS Form (14), Forminator (9), JetFormBuilder (9), Ninja Forms (9), Formidable Forms (8), HappyForms (7), Fluent Forms (5), Gravity Forms (5), WPForms (4), Contact Form 7 (3).
• SEO – SEO Pro Skill (14), SEOPress (9), Yoast SEO (6), Rank Math (6), SEO Advanced (6), Slim SEO (4).
• CRM, email, community and affiliates – FluentCRM (7), FluentCommunity (7), FluentSMTP (6), BuddyPress (5), FluentAffiliate (1).
• LMS and membership – Tutor LMS (7), LearnDash (6), LifterLMS (4), MemberPress (4).
• Translation – Weglot (12), TranslatePress (4), WPML (4).
• Directories, events and jobs – WP Job Manager (6), The Events Calendar (5), Directorist (1).
• Utilities – Security & Maintenance (12), Redirection (4), TablePress (3), Admin and Site Enhancements (1).
• Built-in toolkits – WordPress Core (12), Migr