Can someone write a tutorial that explains what MCP is, how it interacts with WordPress, what skills are and how they interact with WordPress, and generally show a useful example of everything at work?
I think there are a lot of people wondering WTF? with this stuff.
@Jeffro I agree that a tutorial would be useful. Meanwhile I found this post helpful:
https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/03/20/ai-agent-manage-content/
And also this list of example prompts:
https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/prompt-examples/
Following the instructions at the end of the post, I connected my WordPress . Com (paid) account to Claude, and then tried several of these prompts.
One of the things I had it do was duplicate my last newsletter post and replace the main segment with some draft points.
@Jeffro Basically, like a lot of this AI stuff, it is the equivalent of an API written by people who don't know how to write code. That is, it is defining an API without actually caring about how it works.
At the server level, basically it does have to work, however something like a REST API assumes you know what you're doing when you call it. You want to update or read something, etc. With an MCP server, you want to do something more general, and you don't care about how it does it. 1/2
@Jeffro Essentially, it is a higher level call of an API, without defining exactly how that higher level call works. It doesn't matter how the higher level call works, because the client, aka AI implementing the MCP client, can read English.
Frequently, that interface is written by the AI on the back end itself, so you don't even have to create it. You use an AI to create an interface that can be used by another AI. And that's basically MCP in a nutshell. 2/2
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