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MCP Adapter #1 in AI

An MCP adapter that bridges the Abilities API to the Model Context Protocol, enabling MCP clients to discover and invoke WordPress plugin, theme, and core abilities programmatically.

by WordPress.org Contributors · github.com/wordpress/mcp-adapter · website

1.7kstars
81krelease downloads
≈520active sites
428kcomposer installs
192forks

Install

The author publishes release zips, so WP-CLI can install straight from GitHub:

wp plugin install https://github.com/wordpress/mcp-adapter/releases/download/ci-artifacts/pr-302-04cf2b8cb72625b9836f4c99b0252a435d82da3e-mcp-adapter.zip

Also on Packagist as wordpress/mcp-adapter:

composer require wordpress/mcp-adapter

From the readme

MCP Adapter Part of the AI Building Blocks for WordPress initiative The official WordPress package for MCP integration that exposes WordPress abilities as Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, resources, and prompts for AI agents. Overview MCP Adapter bridges WordPress's Abilities API with the MCP specification, giving AI agents a standardized way to interact with WordPress functionality. It includes HTTP and STDIO transport support, comprehensive error handling, and an extensible architecture for custom integrations. Features - Ability-to-MCP conversion — WordPress abilities automatically become MCP tools, resources, and prompts - Multi-server management — run multiple MCP servers, each with its own transports, abilities, and handlers - HTTP and STDIO transports, plus a McpTransportInterface for custom protocols — see Custom Transports - Pluggable error handling and observability — swap in your own logging or monitoring via McpErrorHandlerInterface and McpObservabilityHandlerInterface — see Error Handling and Observability - Granular permissions — per-server transport authentication and per-ability permission checks — see Transport Permissions Architecture See the Archit

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Releases

TagPublishedAssetDownloads
ci-artifactsAug 27, 2026pr-302-04cf2b8cb72625b9836f4c99b0252a435d82da3e-mcp-adapter.zip8
ci-artifactsAug 27, 2026pr-306-108d63d99c94f86358388b1b239d5a97a044a9a9-mcp-adapter.zip7
ci-artifactsAug 27, 2026pr-307-68491e1f8ad4a23a684c7afa9bcc9ce1d9c7cae1-mcp-adapter.zip3
ci-artifactsAug 27, 2026pr-299-d7ade8708bb122c4bb7c350b48e3764bfd08af22-mcp-adapter.zip3
ci-artifactsAug 27, 2026pr-309-04dc4e668ea6c9d0a3c73804ab3552ab758b0712-mcp-adapter.zip5
ci-artifactsAug 27, 2026pr-300-50595e45b985c396196219b0ac09b7b0ee7cd4ce-mcp-adapter.zip4
ci-artifactsAug 27, 2026pr-288-99c756c1ddf1016e5faa215f9eb4e2d8a73d54cd-mcp-adapter.zip17
ci-artifactsAug 27, 2026pr-288-ce4a145d7c4810c71f679dab741d380c5566c08f-mcp-adapter.zip4
ci-artifactsAug 27, 2026pr-303-1f0ed1eaa6519cb92306f89e2e6b7b4d0f4a3d95-mcp-adapter.zip3
ci-artifactsAug 27, 2026pr-303-ee0bd0bc93ffb0eca8c6b7d3515eae9cd8dd5c61-mcp-adapter.zip3
v0.6.1Aug 13, 2026mcp-adapter.zip16,332
v0.6.0Aug 12, 2026mcp-adapter.zip266
v0.5.0Apr 15, 2026mcp-adapter.zip55,977
v0.4.1Dec 9, 2025mcp-adapter.zip8,065
v0.4.0Dec 4, 2025mcp-adapter.zip184
v0.3.0Nov 6, 2025mcp-adapter.zip515
v0.1.0Aug 14, 2025

Active-site estimate ≈520 comes from the median of recent superseded releases. Method.