Tom McFarlin

Remove Empty Shortcodes helps maintain clean content by removing shortcodes that no longer work or generate output. This commonly happens when:
<ul>
<li>You’ve deactivated a plugin that provided shortcodes</li>
<li>You’re trying different plugins and some left behind inactive shortcodes</li>
<li>You have shortcodes from plugins that weren’t properly uninstalled</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically removes inactive shortcodes from displayed content</li>
<li>Preserves your original content in the database</li>
<li>Works with all public post types</li>
<li>Handles both self-closing and wrapped shortcodes</li>
<li>Admin scanner to find and review unregistered shortcodes</li>
<li>On-demand scanning with cached results</li>
<li>Ignore specific shortcodes you want to keep</li>
<li>Zero configuration required for automatic removal</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
The plugin checks your content for shortcodes when pages are displayed. If it finds shortcodes that: 
* Don’t produce any output 
* Aren’t registered with WordPress 
* Are empty or inactive
It removes them from the displayed content while keeping your original content intact in the database.
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Clean up content after removing plugins that used shortcodes</li>
<li>Remove inactive shortcodes without editing posts manually</li>
<li>Maintain clean content for readers and search engines</li>
<li>Preserve original content in case you reinstall removed plugins</li>
</ul>

Remove Empty Shortcodes

Automatically removes empty or inactive shortcodes from your content while preserving your original database entries.

fabiomontenegro1987

Enable Abilities for MCP gives you full control over which WordPress Abilities are available to AI assistants through the MCP (Model Context Protocol) Adapter.
WordPress 6.9 introduced the Abilities API, allowing external tools to discover and execute actions on your site. This plugin extends that functionality by registering a comprehensive set of content management abilities and providing a simple admin interface to toggle each one on or off.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>58 abilities organized in 13 categories: Core, Read, Write, SEO (Rank Math), SEO (SEOPress), SEO (Yoast), Utility, Multilanguage, Custom Post Types, WooCommerce, The Events Calendar, Code Snippets, and JetEngine Options Pages</li>
<li>WooCommerce integration — dedicated abilities to manage products, orders, and customers using the native WooCommerce API (HPOS-compatible, formally declared)</li>
<li>The Events Calendar integration — list, get, create, and update events with venue, organizer, and date filters</li>
<li>Admin dashboard with toggle switches for each ability</li>
<li>Per-ability control — expose only what you need</li>
<li>Secure by design — proper capability checks, input sanitization, and per-post permission validation</li>
<li>WPCS compliant — fully passes WordPress Coding Standards (phpcs)</li>
<li>MCP-ready — all abilities include <code>show_in_rest</code> and <code>mcp.public</code> metadata</li>
</ul>
<h4>Available Abilities</h4>
Read (safe, query-only):
<ul>
<li>Get posts with filters (status, category, tag, search)</li>
<li>Get single post details (content, SEO meta, featured image)</li>
<li>Get categories, tags, pages, comments, media, and users</li>
</ul>
Write (create & modify):
<ul>
<li>Create, update, and delete posts</li>
<li>Create categories and tags</li>
<li>Create pages</li>
<li>Moderate comments</li>
<li>Reply to comments as the authenticated user</li>
<li>Upload images from external URLs to the media library (with optional auto-assign as featured image)</li>
</ul>
SEO — Rank Math:
<ul>
<li>Get full Rank Math metadata for any post/page (title, description, keywords, robots, Open Graph, SEO score)</li>
<li>Update Rank Math metadata: SEO title, description, focus keyword, canonical URL, robots, Open Graph, primary category, pillar content</li>
</ul>
SEO — SEOPress:
<ul>
<li>Get full SEOPress metadata for any post/page (title, description, focus keyword, robots, canonical, Open Graph, Twitter Card)</li>
<li>Update SEOPress metadata: SEO title, description, focus keyword, canonical URL, robots directives, Open Graph, Twitter Card</li>
</ul>
SEO — Yoast SEO:
<ul>
<li>Get full Yoast SEO metadata for any post/page (title, description, focus keyphrase, canonical, robots, Open Graph, Twitter Card)</li>
<li>Update Yoast SEO metadata: SEO title, description, focus keyphrase, canonical URL, robots (noindex, nofollow, advanced), Open Graph, Twitter Card</li>
<li>Get Yoast sitemap index — fetch and parse the sitemap index, returning all registered sitemap URLs with last modification date</li>
</ul>
Custom Post Types:
<ul>
<li>List all registered custom post types with configuration and taxonomies</li>
<li>Get items from any CPT with filtering, search, and taxonomy queries</li>
<li>Get full details of a CPT item including all meta fields (WooCommerce, ACF, JetEngine, etc.)</li>
<li>Create, update, and delete CPT items with taxonomy and meta field support</li>
<li>Get CPT taxonomies with their terms</li>
<li>Assign taxonomy terms to CPT items</li>
</ul>
WooCommerce:
<ul>
<li>List products with price, SKU, stock status, categories, and type</li>
<li>Get full product detail including gallery, attributes, and variations</li>
<li>Update product price, sale price, stock quantity, and status</li>
<li>List orders with customer, total, status, and date (HPOS-compatible)</li>
<li>Get full order detail: line items, billing/shipping, totals, and notes</li>
<li>Update order status with optional note</li>
<li>List customers with email, name, total spent, and order count</li>
</ul>
The Events Calendar:
<ul>
<li>List events with start/end date, venue, organizer, and date range filter</li>
<li>Get full event detail with resolved venue address and organizer contact</li>
<li>Create new events with title, description, dates, venue, and organizer</li>
<li>Update existing events</li>
</ul>
Utility:
<ul>
<li>Search and replace text in post content</li>
<li>Site statistics overview (includes custom post type counts)</li>
<li>Update any post meta field by exact key (with protected internal key blocklist)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.9 or later (Abilities API)</li>
<li>MCP Adapter plugin installed and configured</li>
<li>PHP 8.0 or later</li>
</ul>

Enable Abilities for MCP


I really appreciate this plugin it does what it said it does and I didn't have to waste tokens creating my own abilites.


Very Helpful and Worked out of the box.

Manage which WordPress Abilities are exposed to MCP servers. Supports WooCommerce, The Events Calendar, and any custom post type.

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