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.

IATO MCP vs Albert – The AI Butler