About this plugin
Shim MCP is a self-contained MCP (Model Context Protocol) server plugin for WordPress. It provides 57 abilities that let any MCP-compatible AI client manage your WordPress site — posts, pages, media, users, plugins, menus, widgets, comments, options, and system settings. The MCP server and every ability ship in the one plugin, so no companion plugins are required.
9. See the Credits section below.
Key features:
- 57 WordPress abilities organized across 13 domains
- MCP protocol 2025-06-18 over two transports: Streamable HTTP, and stdio through WP-CLI ( wp shim-mcp serve )
- Admin dashboard with API key generation
- Config export for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Cursor
- Conflict detection for legacy MCP plugins
Credits
Shim MCP builds on three GPL projects:
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0-or-later) – the first version of Shim MCP was built by an autonomous fleet of coding agents that took a good part of their code from it: the plugin bootstrap, the admin dashboard, the WP-CLI command and the layout of the ability classes.
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0) – everything under includes/Server/ (transport, JSON-RPC routing, session management, tools/resources/prompts handlers, schema transformation, error and observability infrastructure) is derived from it.
- WordPress Abilities API (GPL-2.0) – every ability is registered through this core API, which WordPress ships from 6.9.
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