AI WordPress Management: Run Your WordPress Site with AI Agents
WordPress powers 43% of the web. Yet managing a WordPress site is still a manual grind — writing posts, moderating comments, updating plugins, checking stats, tweaking settings. Each task small on its own. Together, a death by a thousand clicks.
What if you could just tell your WordPress site what to do?
That’s what the AI WordPress Studio in TeamDay does. Connect your WordPress site — WordPress.com or self-hosted — and an AI agent manages it through conversation. Not a plugin that auto-generates junk content. A real agent with tools that reads your site, understands context, and executes your instructions.
How It Works: WordPress Meets MCP
The magic is MCP — Model Context Protocol. It’s an open standard that gives AI agents structured access to external tools. Instead of screen-scraping your WordPress admin or making blind API calls, the agent connects through a proper protocol that WordPress speaks natively.
TeamDay supports two connection methods:
WordPress.com — One-Click OAuth
If your site is on WordPress.com, connection takes 10 seconds:
- Click Connect in the WordPress Studio
- Authorize with your WordPress.com account
- Done — the agent can now manage your site
Under the hood, this uses WordPress.com’s official MCP endpoint with OAuth 2.1 and PKCE. Your credentials never touch TeamDay’s servers — it’s a direct token exchange between your browser and WordPress.com.
Self-Hosted WordPress — Plugin + Application Password
Running WordPress on your own server? Two steps on your side:
- Install the MCP Adapter plugin — In your WordPress admin: Plugins → Add New → search “MCP Adapter”. Or grab it from GitHub. Activate it.
- Create an Application Password — Users → Your Profile → scroll to “Application Passwords” → name it “TeamDay” → click Add. Copy the password (it won’t be shown again).
Then in TeamDay, add the Self-Hosted WordPress integration and enter your site URL, username, and the application password. The agent connects via @automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote — a stdio proxy that talks to your WordPress REST API.
Why Application Passwords? They’ve been built into WordPress since version 5.6. Unlike your main login password, application passwords can be revoked individually, and they don’t grant access to the WordPress admin UI — only to the REST API. Perfect for agent access.
What the Agent Can Do
Once connected, your WordPress site becomes a tool the AI can use. Here’s what that looks like in practice:
Content Operations
- Write posts — “Write a blog post about our Q1 product update and publish it” → The agent drafts the post, formats it, sets categories and tags, and publishes.
- Edit pages — “Update the About page — change the founding year to 2024” → Done in seconds.
- Manage media — Upload images, set featured images, organize the media library.
Site Administration
- Plugin management — “What plugins need updates?” → Gets the list. “Update them all” → Executed.
- Comment moderation — “Check for spam comments and delete them” → Reviews, filters, removes.
- User management — “Add a contributor account for [email protected]” → Creates the account with the right role.
Monitoring
- Traffic stats — “How did last week’s blog post perform?” → Pulls views, visitors, referrers.
- Site health — “Any issues with the site?” → Checks plugin conflicts, update status, security notices.
The key difference from a chatbot: the agent doesn’t tell you how to do these things. It does them. When you say “publish a post,” it’s published. When you say “delete spam comments,” they’re gone.
The Real Power: Cross-Office Synergies
A WordPress management agent on its own is useful. But WordPress doesn’t exist in a vacuum — it’s the publishing layer for a content operation that includes SEO research, analytics, content creation, and distribution. That’s where TeamDay’s multi-office architecture shines.
WordPress Studio + SEO Office
The AI SEO Office connects to Ahrefs, Google Search Console, and SE Ranking. It knows your keyword rankings, backlink profile, and content gaps.
Combined workflow:
- SEO Office identifies a keyword opportunity: “best project management tools 2026” — high volume, low competition
- You tell the WordPress Studio: “Write and publish a post targeting ‘best project management tools 2026’”
- The agent writes an SEO-optimized post using the keyword data from your SEO Office, then publishes it to WordPress
- Next week, the SEO Office tracks how the new post is ranking
No copy-pasting between tools. No exporting CSVs. The agents share the same workspace and can reference each other’s outputs.
WordPress Studio + Content Studio
The AI Content Studio has specialized agents for writing, image generation, and translation. It writes long-form content that’s better than what a general-purpose agent produces.
Combined workflow:
- Content Studio writes an in-depth article with custom cover image
- Content translator localizes it to Spanish, French, German, Japanese
- WordPress Studio publishes the English version to your main site
- You publish translations to your multilingual WordPress setup (WPML/Polylang)
Three AI teams, one content pipeline. The Content Studio focuses on quality writing, the WordPress Studio handles CMS operations.
WordPress Studio + Data Analytics
The AI Data Analytics office connects to your databases and builds dashboards. Pair it with WordPress for data-driven content:
- Pull quarterly metrics from your database
- Generate charts and insights
- WordPress Studio publishes them as a data report post
- Schedule it to run every quarter automatically
WordPress Studio + Social Media Team
Publish a post, then have the AI Social Media Team find relevant Reddit and Hacker News threads where you can share it authentically. Content creation and distribution in one flow.
Scheduled Missions: Set It and Forget It
The WordPress Studio comes with default missions you can enable:
- Weekly Content Review — Every Monday, the agent audits your recent posts: checks for broken links, missing alt text, outdated information, and SEO issues. Produces a report with recommended fixes.
- Daily Comment Moderation — Every morning, the agent reviews new comments, flags spam, and optionally auto-approves comments from known contributors.
You can create custom missions too. Some ideas:
- Monthly plugin audit — Check all plugins for updates, security vulnerabilities, and unused plugins that should be removed
- Weekly competitor content scan — Compare your publishing frequency and topics against competitor blogs (combine with SEO Office data)
- Daily stats digest — Morning summary of yesterday’s traffic, top posts, and referral sources
Missions run on a cron schedule. They execute, produce a report, and you review it when convenient. The WordPress site stays maintained even when you’re focused on other things.
Setting It Up: 5-Minute Guide
For WordPress.com
- Go to your TeamDay workspace → AI Teams → WordPress Studio
- Click Connect → WordPress.com
- Authorize with your WordPress.com account
- Start chatting: “Show me my recent posts”
For Self-Hosted WordPress
- On your WordPress site:
- Install and activate the MCP Adapter plugin (Plugins → Add New → search “MCP Adapter”)
- Go to Users → Your Profile → Application Passwords
- Enter name “TeamDay”, click Add New Application Password
- Copy the generated password
- In TeamDay → WordPress Studio → Connect → WordPress (Self-Hosted)
- Enter your site URL, username, and the application password
- Start chatting: “What’s the status of my site?”
That’s it. No complex configuration, no webhook setup, no custom code. The MCP protocol handles the plumbing.
Why MCP Matters for WordPress
WordPress has had a REST API for years. Plugins like WPGraphQL and Headless WordPress have enabled programmatic access. So why does MCP matter?
Because APIs are for developers. MCP is for agents.
A REST API gives you endpoints — POST /wp/v2/posts, GET /wp/v2/comments. You need to know the schema, handle authentication, parse responses, manage pagination. That’s fine if you’re building an app. It’s terrible if you’re an AI agent trying to help a user manage their site.
MCP wraps the API in a protocol that AI agents understand natively. The agent doesn’t need to know WordPress’s REST schema. It discovers available tools through the MCP protocol, understands their parameters, and calls them in the right sequence to fulfill your request.
This is the same pattern that made ChatGPT plugins useful and that powers every MCP-enabled tool in TeamDay. The protocol is the interface — WordPress becomes just another tool in the agent’s toolkit, alongside Ahrefs, Google Analytics, and your database.
What’s Next
The WordPress MCP ecosystem is young. The official MCP Adapter plugin launched recently, and WordPress.com’s MCP endpoint is one of the first major CMS platforms to adopt the protocol natively.
We expect this to evolve quickly:
- WooCommerce operations — Manage products, orders, and inventory through the same agent interface
- Multisite management — Manage an entire WordPress network from one conversation
- Gutenberg block creation — Describe a layout, get a block pattern
- Theme customization — “Change the header background to match our brand color” → Applied
The foundation is here. WordPress speaks MCP. TeamDay speaks MCP. The rest is just expanding what the agent can do with that connection.
Try It
The AI WordPress Studio is available now in TeamDay. Connect your WordPress site in minutes, then tell the agent what you need done.
No more death by a thousand clicks.