According to 1M AI News monitoring, WordPress 7.0 is scheduled for release on April 9. One of the core changes is integrating the MCP (Model Context Protocol) adapter into the core, allowing any WordPress site to serve as an MCP server, enabling AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT to discover features, understand structures, and perform actions directly within the site.
Specifically, version 7.0 introduces three components at the AI infrastructure level:
- AI Connectors: Manage AI service API keys centrally in the settings panel. The initial support includes Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. All plugins share the same credentials, no longer storing their own.
- Abilities API: Introduced in version 6.9 and expanded in 7.0, this ability registration interface allows plugins to declare their functions in a format understandable by AI (such as fetching articles, updating pages, running site health checks), with standardized input and output.
- MCP Adapter: Exposes all registered abilities via the MCP protocol to external AI agents, which can automatically discover site capabilities and invoke them with user permission.
WordPress.com launched MCP write permissions on March 20, covering 6 content types with 19 write operations (editing content, managing comments, creating pages, uploading media, adjusting categories and tags, etc.). All actions require explicit user confirmation before execution. New content defaults to draft status, and deleted content goes to the trash, retained for 30 days. WordPress.com also defaults to enabling OAuth 2.1 authentication, where AI clients use only time-limited tokens and do not access user credentials.
WordPress powers approximately 43% of websites worldwide. The integration of MCP into the core means these sites will have standardized AI agent access, similar to how the REST API’s inclusion in 2016 led to the rise of headless WordPress and modern theme development ecosystems.
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