Introducing StoreMCP: Control Your WordPress Store from AI
Today we're launching StoreMCP — a WordPress plugin that turns any site into a fully-featured MCP server. Here's what that means and why we built it.
If you've used Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor with MCP, you already know the magic: ask a question, the AI calls tools, things happen. No custom UI, no dashboard, just conversation.
Until today, that magic stopped at WordPress's door.
The WordPress gap
WordPress powers ~43% of the web and a huge chunk of online commerce. But connecting WordPress to AI has always meant one of three compromises:
- Build a custom REST integration — slow, fragile, needs maintenance every time WooCommerce updates.
- Manually paste data into chat — fine for one product, painful for 1,000.
- Use a narrow AI feature built into a plugin — usually just "write me a product description."
None of these are what AI assistants should feel like. An AI that can read, write, analyze, and act across your whole store — that's what we want.
What StoreMCP does
StoreMCP is a single WordPress plugin. Activate it, generate an API key, and paste the URL into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other MCP-compatible client.
You instantly get 120+ tools covering:
- Products, variations, categories, tags, attributes
- Orders (with full lifecycle — status, notes, refunds)
- Customers with purchase history
- Coupons with every restriction
- Sales reports and analytics
- Shipping, tax, payment gateways
- Pages, posts, media, menus, widgets
- Users, reviews, SEO meta
- Plugin/theme management
- Webhooks, system tools
All exposed through the AI's tool interface. Ask "what were my top 10 products last month?" — the AI calls the right tool, gets real data, writes you an answer.
Why MCP?
Model Context Protocol is the open standard that every major AI assistant converged on in 2025. It's not proprietary to any one vendor. Build an MCP server once, and it works with Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT Connectors, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and every future client.
That matters for WordPress. You don't want to bet your workflow on a single AI provider's API.
Open core
The free tier of StoreMCP is open source and lives on wordpress.org. It gives you:
- Full WordPress content management
- Product browsing (read)
- Basic reports
- All site-info tools
If you run a blog or content site, free is forever-free. No nag screens.
Pro and Agency add WooCommerce CRUD, advanced analytics, bulk operations, multi-site, and white-label. Annual pricing — no subscription treadmill, no hidden tiers.
What you should do next
- Install the plugin on a test site
- Connect Claude (or your AI of choice)
- Run through the first commands
- Ask it something you've always wanted to know about your store
Then tell us what surprised you. We're on Instagram, email at hello@storemcp.io, and issues at GitHub.
WordPress has been around for 22 years. AI assistants have been usable for 3. StoreMCP is the bridge.
Thanks for trying it.