Security-first WordPress MCP server. 129 tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini. Free on wp.org.
Royal MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Security-first WordPress MCP server. 129 tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini. Free on wp.org.
A WordPress plugin that exposes your site as a Model Context Protocol server. AI agents — Claude.ai web, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, custom clients — can read and write posts, pages, media, users, menus, WooCommerce orders, and Elementor pages, with every call going through capability gating, rate limiting, and an audit log. Distributed via the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Once Royal is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Content — Posts, pages, custom post types (full CRUD + revisions + featured images)Taxonomies — Categories, tags, custom taxonomies, term meta, post-term linkingMedia — Browse, upload (URL or base64), update metadata, deleteComments — Create, moderate (approve / spam / trash)Users — Read display names + roles (emails and usernames are not exposed)Menus — Read, create items, reorder, update with destructive-write guardrailsTheme — Custom CSS, theme mods, active theme detectionSite — Permalink structure, options (allowlisted), site infoSearch — Cross-content search by querySEO — Yoast / Rank Math / AIOSEO meta read/write where the plugin is activeDiagnostics — Site status (WP/PHP/MySQL/plugins/themes/cron in one call), PHP error-log tail, WP cron schedule, and MCP royal_mcp_connection_health (returns routePlugin — ToolsYou will need 2 environment variables: YOUR_API_KEY, YOUR_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Plenty of database access servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Royal's toolset — Content, Taxonomies, Media and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by com.royalplugins; 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.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Content | Posts, pages, custom post types (full CRUD + revisions + featured images) |
| Taxonomies | Categories, tags, custom taxonomies, term meta, post-term linking |
| Media | Browse, upload (URL or base64), update metadata, delete |
| Comments | Create, moderate (approve / spam / trash) |
| Users | Read display names + roles (emails and usernames are not exposed) |
| Menus | Read, create items, reorder, update with destructive-write guardrails |
| Theme | Custom CSS, theme mods, active theme detection |
| Site | Permalink structure, options (allowlisted), site info |
| Search | Cross-content search by query |
| SEO | Yoast / Rank Math / AIOSEO meta read/write where the plugin is active |
| Diagnostics | Site status (WP/PHP/MySQL/plugins/themes/cron in one call), PHP error-log tail, WP cron schedule, and MCP royal_mcp_connection_health (returns route, auth method, session ID, plugin version, and active page-builder versi |
| Plugin | Tools |
| WooCommerce | 26 |
| Elementor | 8 |
{
"mcpServers": {
"my-wordpress": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://yoursite.com/wp-json/royal-mcp/v1/mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| YOUR_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| YOUR_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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