WordPress has officially released a canonical MCP Adapter plugin that additionally maintains backward compatibility. Now users who desire to add AI functionality to their location can choose the authoritative WordPress MCP Adapter plugin.
What Is MCP
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open norm developed by Anthropic that lets AI systems securely nexus to apps, data, plugins, tools, and websites, enabling AI to admission data and execute actions. For WordPress websites, MCP enables AI to engage alongside sites, plugins, and WordPress functions (PHP code snippets that execute particular tasks akin publishing posts).
Jason Adams, Director of Engineering, AI at Automattic tweeted:
“The WordPress MCP Adapter is now released: https://wordpress.org/plugins/mcp-adapter 🎉
This is the canonical MCP plugin for WordPress, carefully architected for backwards-compatibility alongside MCP versions. If you desire MCP in your location or plugins, I extremely propose using this.
…It makes use of the Abilities API to evade functional redundancy during handling authorization. I’m enthusiastic to see the pieces coming together!”
@BoboLinNotes commented:
“The backwards compatibility matters. WordPress plugins lean to remain about for years.”
Adams responded:
“Agreed, and we can’t authority the backwards-compatibility of the MCP protocol itself, so making a way for this in our ecosystem is important.”
New To The WordPress Directory
The MCP Adapter plugin has been about for several period but it was earlier lone accessible through the official WordPress MCP Adapter GitHub releases page, which is why it already has complete 40,000 installations. Version 0.70 is the archetypal type to be published in the authoritative WordPress.org repository.
Review the particulars and download the official WordPress MCP Adapter plugin here or instal it through your WordPress admin dashboard.
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