Joomla MCP Server

1. Access User Profile: Log in to the Joomla Administrator interface and navigate to the Users menu, then select Manage. That is what the joomla mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.

The short version

The Joomla MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server enables AI assistants, such as Claude, to interact with Joomla websites via the Joomla Web Services API. It provides tools to manage articles using an AI assistant.

• Retrieve all articles from a Joomla website
• List all content categories
• Create new articles
• Manage article states (published, unpublished, trashed, or archived)
• Delete articles
• Update articles (requires both introtext and fulltext, with a "Read more" break)

Getting it running

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client.

What it needs from you

Configuration is passed through the environment: JOOMLA_BASE_URL, BEARER_TOKEN. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.

• Python 3.11+ - Joomla 4.x or 5.x with the Web Services API plugin enabled - API Bearer token for authentication

Things to watch

• It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
• Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
• Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

How it compares

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by nasoma; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.