Mehul Gohil

<p>Aculect AI Companion is a secure MCP connector for WordPress. It lets approved AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, and OpenAI-compatible tools work with your WordPress content, media, comments, and site information through permission-aware workflows.</p>
<p>Instead of switching between WordPress admin screens, you can ask your AI assistant in plain English to draft a post, update a page, review comments, upload media, inspect safe site details, or prepare long-form content using WordPress blocks.</p>
<p>WordPress remains the source of truth. Aculect AI Companion checks the connected WordPress user’s permissions before every action, lets administrators choose which abilities are available, and keeps risky write actions behind configurable controls.</p>
<h4>What is MCP for WordPress?</h4>
<p>MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. In Aculect AI Companion, MCP gives supported AI assistants a structured, permission-controlled way to request WordPress actions. The assistant does not receive direct database access. It can only use the enabled tools exposed by WordPress and approved by an administrator.</p>
<h4>Why use Aculect AI Companion?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Connect WordPress to ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, and OpenAI-compatible MCP clients</li>
<li>Create, update, and organize WordPress content through controlled AI workflows</li>
<li>Work with posts, pages, custom post types, categories, tags, comments, and media</li>
<li>Use block-aware content workflows instead of raw custom HTML</li>
<li>Review AI activity with sanitized audit logs</li>
<li>Control access globally, by connection, by role, and by WordPress user permissions</li>
<li>Use diagnostics to verify OAuth, MCP, endpoint, and environment readiness</li>
</ul>
<p>Setup is designed to be simple:</p>
<ol>
<li>Copy your connection URL from AI Companion > Connect.</li>
<li>Open your AI tool and add a new connector.</li>
<li>Paste the URL when prompted.</li>
<li>Approve the connection on the screen that appears.</li>
</ol>
<p>After approval, Aculect AI Companion checks the connected WordPress user’s permissions before every action. You can also choose exactly what your AI assistant can do and disconnect assistants at any time.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create, edit, and publish posts, pages, and supported custom post types</li>
<li>Plan and draft long-form block content for WordPress</li>
<li>Manage categories, tags, custom taxonomies, and content groups</li>
<li>Moderate, reply to, and bulk-manage comments</li>
<li>Upload, list, update, attach, detach, and safely rename media</li>
<li>View safe site settings, active plugins, active themes, and diagnostics</li>
<li>Connect, pause, review, and disconnect AI assistants</li>
<li>Control which MCP abilities each assistant can use</li>
</ul>
<h4>Supported AI Tools</h4>
<p>Aculect AI Companion includes setup guidance for popular AI assistants and MCP clients:</p>
<ul>
<li>ChatGPT app with Developer Mode connectors</li>
<li>OpenAI API integrations that support remote connectors</li>
<li>Claude app, Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, and Claude mobile</li>
<li>Claude Code</li>
<li>Claude API integrations that support remote connectors</li>
</ul>
<p>Your AI tool must be able to reach your WordPress site over HTTPS to complete OAuth approval and send MCP requests.</p>
<h4>Supported Abilities</h4>
<p>Admins can enable or disable these abilities from AI Companion > Abilities after the first assistant connection is active.</p>
<p>Long-form content workflows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Prepare a post outline, section plan, taxonomy recommendations, media recommendations, and SEO recommendations</li>
<li>Create a draft from validated serialized WordPress block content</li>
<li>Update an existing post with block-safe content workflows</li>
<li>Update Rank Math SEO title, description, and focus keywords when Rank Math is active</li>
</ul>
<p>Content:</p>
<ul>
<li>List readable content types, including custom post types</li>
<li>List posts, pages, and custom content items with pagination</li>
<li>Read one content item by ID</li>
<li>Create a post, page, or custom content item with optional featured image, author, and taxonomy assignments</li>
<li>Update title, content, excerpt, slug, status, featured image, author, or taxonomy assignments for an existing item</li>
<li>Update SEO title, SEO description, and focus keywords for supported SEO plugins</li>
</ul>
<p>Content groups:</p>
<ul>
<li>List available categories, tags, and custom content groups</li>
<li>List terms for a supported taxonomy with pagination</li>
<li>Create a category, tag, or custom content group</li>
<li>Update a category, tag, or custom content group</li>
<li>Assign or clear an image for supported taxonomy terms</li>
</ul>
<p>Comments:</p>
<ul>
<li>List comments for review with pagination</li>
<li>Read one comment by ID</li>
<li>Reply to a comment as the connected WordPress user</li>
<li>Moderate comment content or status</li>
<li>Bulk moderate multiple comments</li>
</ul>
<p>Media:</p>
<ul>
<li>List media library attachments with pagination</li>
<li>Read, update, trash, and safely rename media items</li>
<li>Upload media from a public URL with server-side request checks</li>
<li>Attach media to posts or detach media from posts</li>
</ul>
<p>Site information:</p>
<ul>
<li>View safe, non-secret site settings</li>
<li>View WordPress version, PHP version, active theme, and basic site metadata</li>
<li>List installed plugins and active state for users who can manage plugins</li>
<li>List installed themes and active state for users who can manage themes</li>
</ul>
<p>WordPress abilities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Discover supported public WordPress abilities registered by WordPress and plugins</li>
<li>Inspect one supported public WordPress ability</li>
<li>Run a supported public WordPress ability using the connected user’s permissions</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third Party Services</h3>
<p>Aculect AI Companion does not send site data to an external service on activation, page load, cron, or without a site administrator connecting an AI assistant.</p>
<p>When a site administrator copies the connection URL into an external AI assistant and approves the connection screen in WordPress, that assistant can request the enabled abilities. Depending on the enabled abilities and the connected WordPress user’s permissions, requested data may include post titles, post content, excerpts, slugs, statuses, authors, dates, permalinks, category and tag names, media metadata, comments, and safe site settings such as site name, description, URLs, locale, timezone, date format, time format, permalink structure, and active theme name.</p>
<p>The external service that receives this data is the AI assistant selected and configured by the administrator. Aculect AI Companion’s built-in setup UI includes links for:</p>
<ul>
<li>ChatGPT by OpenAI: https://chatgpt.com/, terms at https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/, and privacy policy at https://openai.com/policies/row-privacy-policy/</li>
<li>Claude by Anthropic: https://claude.ai/, terms at https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms, and privacy policy at https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy</li>
</ul>
<p>Administrators should review the terms and privacy policy for the AI assistant they connect. Aculect AI Companion controls the WordPress-side approval and permissions checks; it does not control how a connected external assistant processes data after the administrator authorizes access.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>The production package ships built assets and Composer dependencies. Development manifests such as <code>composer.json</code>, <code>composer.lock</code>, and <code>package.json</code> are intentionally excluded from release ZIP files. Generated files under <code>build/</code> are not committed to the source repository; release automation generates them before packaging.</p>
<p>For source code, build tooling, and exact dependency manifests, use the public GitHub repository:</p>
<p>https://github.com/mehul0810/aculect-ai-companion</p>
<p>Contributing guidelines:</p>
<p>https://github.com/mehul0810/aculect-ai-companion/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md</p>
<p>Security policy:</p>
<p>https://github.com/mehul0810/aculect-ai-companion/security/policy</p>
<p>From the repository checkout, use the Node.js version in <code>.nvmrc</code> and rebuild assets with:</p>
<pre><code>npm ci
npm run build
</code></pre>
<p>Composer dependencies for production releases are installed with:</p>
<pre><code>composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader
</code></pre>


Aculect AI Companion

Use ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, and other MCP AI assistants to manage WordPress content, media, comments, and site workflows.

webdevstudios

Michael Beckwith

pluginize

Dustin Filippini

Damon Cook

<p>Provides an easy way to display your WordPress.org Themes, Plugins, Core tickets, and Codex contributions with handy widgets and template tags.</p>
<p>WordPress wouldn’t be as amazing as it is without all of the contributors to the project. The community is proud of each and every contributor. Display some of your contributions to the project using handy widgets or template tags in your custom theme.  Currently, you can display your contributions to WordPress core, the WordPress Codex, your WordPress Plugins, or your WordPress themes.</p>
<p>There are four handy widgets available for you that are easily configured and added to your sidebar.  You just need to add your theme or plugin slug to display a theme or plugin or enter your WordPress.org username to display core or codex contributions.</p>
<p>There are two shortcodes available, and some handy template tags if you desire to add them in your custom theme.  More info on shortcodes and template tags are available under the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-contributions/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a>.</p>
<p>We want to give a big thanks to the great plugin, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-core-contributions-widget/" rel="ugc">Core Contributions Widget</a> by Eric Mann, Michael Fields, John P. Bloch, Mike Bijon, and Konstantin Obenland. We forked part of this plugin to include Core and Codex Contributions. If you would just like widgets to display Core and Codex Contributions, we recommend downloading their plugin.</p>
<h3>Available shortcodes</h3>
<h3>Show a Plugin Card</h3>
<pre><code>[wp_contributions_plugin_card slug="your-plugin-slug"]<h3>Show a Theme Card</h3>
[wp_contributions_theme_card slug="your-theme-slug"]
</code></pre>
<p>Not sure what shortcodes are? <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more here</a>.</p>
<h4>How do I add a widget?</h4>
<ol>
<li>Visit Appearance -> Widgets in your WordPress Admin.</li>
<li>Drag any of the WP Contributions widgets to the sidebar where you want them to appear.</li>
<li>For the plugin and them widgets, enter a widget title and enter the slug of the plugin you would like to display. The slug of a plugin can be found by looking at the URL of the plugin page.  For instance, Jetpack is found at <code>https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/</code> which makes the plugin slug <code>jetpack</code>.</li>
<li>For Core and Codex contributions, enter a title, your WordPress.org username, and the number of contributions you would like to display. It will display the most recent contributions. There will be a link to display more contributions so people can view any after the number you input.</li>
</ol>
<h4>What template tags are available?</h4>
<pre><code><?php wp_contributions_plugin_card( $plugin_slug ); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Displays a the plugin information for a plugin. Just pass the slug of the plugin as <code>$plugin_slug</code> to display the plugin information card.  This function will echo your results to your template.</p>
<pre><code><?php wp_contributions_theme_card( $theme_slug ); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Displays a the theme information for a theme. Just pass the slug of the theme as <code>$theme_slug</code> to display the theme information card.  This function will echo your results to your template.</p>
<pre><code><?php wp_contributions_author_plugin_cards( $username ); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Displays all plugins for a plugin author.  Just pass the WordPress.org username as <code>$username</code> to display all plugin cards for that user.  This function will echo your results to your template.</p>
<pre><code><?php wp_contributions_author_theme_cards( $username ); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Displays all plugins for a theme author.  Just pass the WordPress.org username as <code>$username</code> to display all theme cards for that user.  This function will echo your results to your template.</p>
<pre><code><?php wp_contributions_core_contributions_card( $username, $count ); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Displays Core contributions for a WordPress.org user.  Just pass the WordPress.org username as <code>$username</code> to display the contributions for that user. Optionally, you can also pass in <code>$count</code> to control the number of contributions to display. Default count is set at 5. This function will echo your results to your template.</p>
<pre><code><?php wp_contributions_codex_contributions_card( $username, $count ); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Displays Codex contributions for a WordPress.org user.  Just pass the WordPress.org username as <code>$username</code> to display the contributions for that user. Optionally, you can also pass in <code>$count</code> to control the number of contributions to display. Default count is set at 5. This function will echo your results to your template.</p>
<h4>How do I integrate directly in a theme?</h4>
<p>Copy either the individual template file: e.g. <code>/wp-content/wp-contributions-theme-card-template.php</code>, or the plugin’s entire template folder into your theme’s folder (<code>/wp-content/plugins/wp-contributions/templates/</code>), and override anything you desire.</p>


WP Contributions


It's a small plugin, but exactly what I needed and the support is great, even almost nobody has it installed (if we believe the numbers). Thank you!


Nice!

Provides an easy way to display your WordPress.org Themes, Plugins, Core tickets, and Codex contributions with handy widgets and template tags.

Aculect AI Companion vs WP Contributions