Connect Cline to WordPress

Connect Cline — the open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code — to your own WordPress site over the Model Context Protocol. Cline talks to your site directly — there is no relay in between, no account to create, and your credentials never leave your machine. Setup takes about a minute once MCP Manager is installed.

Free plugin · No account · Runs on your own server · Any WordPress host

Before you start

You need AcrossAI MCP Manager installed and active on the WordPress site you want Cline to reach, plus an administrator account on that site. If you have not installed it yet, follow the Get Started guide first — it takes about a minute, and the MCP server ships bundled with the plugin.

On the editor side you need VS Code with the Cline extension installed, and Node.js on the same machine, because the connection runs through an npx bridge. Nothing is installed permanently — npx fetches the bridge on demand.

How to connect Cline to WordPress

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "your-site-mcp-adapter-default-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote@latest"],
      "env": {
        "WP_API_URL": "https://example.com/wp-json/acrossai/mcp",
        "WP_API_USERNAME": "your-wp-username",
        "WP_API_PASSWORD": "xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

What Cline can do once it is connected

With Abilities Manager installed alongside it, Cline reaches 350+ abilities across 14 toolsets — rising past 800 once it detects the plugins you already run. From inside VS Code, without switching to a browser tab, it can:

• Read and edit content — posts, pages and any custom post type with their meta and revisions, and surgically edit a page’s block tree without rewriting the page.
• Debug a broken site — read the debug log with secrets redacted, check Site Health, list recent fatal errors and un-pause what WordPress auto-disabled.
• Inspect the database — schema and table sizes, index health, bloated autoloaded options, or EXPLAIN on a slow query.
• Manage plugins, themes and core — search WordPress.org, install, update, roll back, and verify files against official checksums.
• Work with files — inside an allowlist you define, with a dangerous-extension blocklist and optional pre-image backups of everything it touches.
• Reach the plugins you already run — WooCommerce, Elementor, ACF, Rank Math, Yoast, WPCode and more, each registering only when that plugin is active.

Every ability runs WordPress’s own capability check for the calling user, so Cline can never do anything your account could not already do. See the full platform overview for the complete catalogue.

Connect a different AI client

The same server works with every MCP client — only the config file and top-level key change. See the guides for Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Zed, Codex and every other client.