Mark Jansen

Albert

<p>Every well-run site deserves a proper butler. Albert stands at the door of your WordPress site, ready to welcome AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT and put them to work.</p>
<h4>An open door for AI assistants</h4>
<p>Install Albert, grant an AI assistant access, and it can start managing your site — writing and editing posts, organizing media, moderating comments, and handling day-to-day tasks. No custom code, no complicated setup. Albert takes care of the introductions.</p>
<h4>A well-stocked service tray</h4>
<p>Albert presents AI assistants with a curated set of abilities — the tasks they’re permitted to carry out on your site. When plugins like WooCommerce or Advanced Custom Fields are active, Albert extends the service with additional abilities tailored to each one.</p>
<h4>The butler manages the household</h4>
<p>Not every guest needs access to every room. From the admin panel, you decide exactly which abilities are on the tray and which stay behind closed doors. You remain in charge — Albert just makes sure your instructions are followed.</p>
<h4>Proper credentials at the door</h4>
<p>Every AI assistant must present proper credentials before Albert lets them in. Connections are secure, scoped, and fully under your control.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Albert does not collect, store, or transmit any user data to external servers. All authentication tokens are stored locally in your WordPress database. When you authorize an AI assistant, that assistant will have access to perform actions on your WordPress site according to the permissions you grant. You control which abilities are enabled and can revoke any session at any time.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by Mark Jansen – Your Mark Media<br />
Website: https://yourmark.nl<br />
Plugin URL: https://github.com/YourMark/albert-ai-butler</p>
<p>Built with:<br />
* league/oauth2-server for OAuth 2.0 implementation<br />
* Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI assistant connectivity<br />
* WordPress Coding Standards</p>


Albert – The AI Butler


I was looking for a better way to give GPT access to my WordPress site. Previously I would allow it to connect using WP CLI over SSH, but it's hard to manage (scoped) permissions that way. With Albert I was able to allow my AI agent access to my WordPress sites with very granular permissions, so I could be sure it would not accidentally perform a destructive action. Installation was smooth. Plugin setting pages look clean. No PHP errors or notices in my logs. Glad I took the plunge and gave this plugin a try.


First! Great plugin to connect WordPress to GPT.


I needed something to sit between ChatGPT/Claude and WordPress so end users could drive the site by just talking, like “create a project for this client” or “add this document” (based on the conversation context). I was dreading wiring up MCP and OAuth myself. Turns out I didn’t have to! My non-technical users connect their assistant by pasting one MCP URL and signing in with their normal WordPress account through oauth, and because of that, every action respects existing WordPress capabilities, so the AI can’t do anything the user couldn’t.



Albert builds on the WordPress Abilities API, so I added my own AI-callable actions by writing a few small classes (id, description, input schema, permission callback) and they showed up as MCP tools right away and in Albert’s admin page with enable/disable toggles.


a clean way to let ChatGPT actually do things in WordPress

At your service — Albert connects AI assistants to your WordPress site so they can manage content, handle tasks, and keep things running smoothly.

WisdmLabs

<p>Your AI assistant is smart — but it knows nothing about your specific WordPress site. AI Conduit fixes that. Once installed, your AI can look up your blog posts, check your WooCommerce orders, pull student progress from LearnDash, or summarise your site’s data — just by asking, in plain language.</p>
<p>Think of it as giving your AI a secure window into your WordPress database. It can read and report. It can never edit, delete, or change anything.</p>
<h4>WordPress 7.0 has AI infrastructure — so why AI Conduit?</h4>
<p>WordPress 7.0 shipped the Abilities API, AI Client, Connectors screen, and MCP Adapter. For the first time, WordPress has a standardised way for plugins to talk to AI assistants. The architecture is sound. The vision is right. And for most WordPress sites today, none of it does anything useful yet.</p>
<p>Here’s why. The Abilities API is a registry — it only matters if plugins populate it. WordPress 7.0 ships with two baseline abilities. WooCommerce is leading the way, but the vast majority of the plugin ecosystem hasn’t registered anything yet. Until they do, your AI can see the registry, but there’s nothing in it for your site.</p>
<p>The bigger gap is your custom work. Most production sites have custom post types, meta fields, and bespoke integrations that no plugin author can register on your behalf. The only native path to exposing them is custom PHP — writing schemas and permission callbacks for every field you want your AI to read. That’s a developer project, not an afternoon’s work.</p>
<p>AI Conduit closes both gaps. Point and click to give your AI read access to anything in your database — standard fields, custom post types, custom meta, even data added by plugins that haven’t registered abilities yet. No PHP. No waiting on someone else’s roadmap. Working in minutes, not months.</p>
<h4>What can you use it for?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Customer Support</strong> — Ask your AI “what did customer John order last week?” and get the answer without opening WooCommerce. Save hours every week.</li>
<li><strong>E-commerce</strong> — “Show me all orders over $5,000 this month.” Your AI assistant pulls the data, you make the decision. No exports, no spreadsheets.</li>
<li><strong>Content Teams</strong> — “List all posts published in the last 30 days with fewer than 500 words.” Your AI does the audit in seconds — not hours.</li>
<li><strong>Course Creators</strong> — With LearnDash, ask “which students haven’t completed Module 3?” and follow up personally — without running a single report.</li>
<li><strong>Site Owners</strong> — “Give me a weekly digest of new signups, published posts, and comments.” Your AI becomes a personal briefing assistant for your site.</li>
<li><strong>Agencies</strong> — Build tools once. Use them across client sites. Pull the metrics your clients care about without touching phpMyAdmin or writing SQL.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How it works — three simple steps</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong>Install and activate the plugin.</strong> Upload to WordPress the same way you install any other plugin. Takes about two minutes.</li>
<li><strong>Build your first tool with drag-and-drop.</strong> Choose what data your AI can see — posts, orders, users, comments. No code required. Point, click, configure.</li>
<li><strong>Connect your AI and start asking questions.</strong> Paste one connection URL into Claude Desktop or your preferred AI app. Your assistant now knows your site.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Your data stays safe</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Read-only access</strong> — Your AI can never edit, delete, or publish anything on your site. Ever.</li>
<li><strong>Role-based controls</strong> — Decide exactly which WordPress roles can access which tools.</li>
<li><strong>Full request log</strong> — Every query your AI makes is logged so you always know what was asked.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Everything included</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Visual tool builder</strong> — No code. Drag blocks to define what your AI can access.</li>
<li><strong>Rich data sources</strong> — Posts, pages, users, comments, and custom fields — all queryable.</li>
<li><strong>Smart filters</strong> — Narrow by date, category, author, custom field value, and more.</li>
<li><strong>Cross-data queries</strong> — Combine posts with their authors or comments with their posts in one query.</li>
<li><strong>Import & export tools</strong> — Save your tool configuration as JSON and reuse it across sites instantly.</li>
<li><strong>Rate limiting</strong> — Set caps on how often the AI can query your site to prevent overload.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who is this plugin for?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>WooCommerce store owners</strong> — Query orders, customers, and product data without leaving your AI chat.</li>
<li><strong>LearnDash course creators</strong> — Track enrolments, completions, and quiz scores through natural conversation.</li>
<li><strong>Content editors & bloggers</strong> — Audit your content library, find gaps, and surface your best posts with ease.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress developers</strong> — Build custom MCP tools for clients. Extensible with your own block types.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Works with your favourite AI tools</h4>
<p>AI Conduit connects to any AI app that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP). That includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Claude Desktop</li>
<li>Cursor</li>
<li>Any MCP-compatible client</li>
</ul>
<p>New AI tools are adding MCP support every month — any compatible client will work automatically.</p>


AI Conduit

Give your AI assistant a secure, read-only window into your WordPress site. Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible AI.

Albert – The AI Butler vs AI Conduit