Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Any AI to WordPress for free to manage and automate any WordPress site
TORONTO, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Uncanny Owl, the Toronto-based WordPress company, today announced that Uncanny Automator is now an MCP server for WordPress. Available in the free Uncanny Automator plugin since November 2, 2026, the MCP server lets site owners connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any AI app that supports remote MCP servers to their WordPress site.
The MCP server is built into the free Uncanny Automator plugin and connects a user's AI to their WordPress site. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard AI apps use to connect to other software, and an MCP server provides that connection.
Once connected, a user can run their WordPress site in plain English, managing posts, pages, products, courses, users, plugins and more. They can take direct action in the plugins the site already uses, from building new pages and forms to enrolling members and learners. Through Uncanny Automator's app integrations a connected AI can also manage beyond WordPress — tagging contacts in Mailchimp, exporting records to Google Sheets, posting to social media. Users can also get deep analysis on performance, SEO, content, sales and learning trends by chatting with their AI: no need to export reports to spreadsheets for analysis.
Uncanny Automator includes 250+ skills that instantly teach a connected AI how to work in WordPress, with guides for WooCommerce, LearnDash, WPCode, Tutor LMS, WPForms, FluentCRM, BuddyBoss and much more, and for building and updating pages in Gutenberg, Elementor, Spectra, Divi and WPBakery. For sites without a page builder, Uncanny Page Builder is built in: fast, light and AI-native.
"Connecting our AI with Uncanny Automator has completely changed how we manage our own sites," said Ken Young, co-founder of Uncanny Owl. "And whenever someone tries it, they immediately realize that this is the future of WordPress. Going back to doing things the old way — building pages by hand, block by block, exporting data for analysis, using external workflow automation tools — suddenly seems very inefficient."
Any WordPress MCP server lets an AI manage a site in chat. Uncanny Automator is the only WordPress MCP server that has a built-in automation engine, so a connected AI can also build recipes: automations that keep running after the chat ends.
A recipe is built with triggers, conditions, and actions that run the same way every time. Describe a workflow and the AI writes the recipe, or users can build it themselves in the visual builder. Once published, it runs on events and schedules and every run can be audited with detailed logs.
Uncanny Automator also gives a connected AI an action library no other MCP server offers: 440+ actions across 130+ plugins and apps in the free version, 800+ actions across 240+ plugins and apps on every paid plan. It also exposes every ability any other plugin registers through the WordPress Abilities API — a library thousands strong and growing daily.
Uncanny Automator connects to users' WordPress sites in one click via an encrypted connection and provides an individual switch for every tool, integration, action and plugin ability a connected AI can access. An activity log shows every call the AI made: which app, which site, what it did and the outcome. Connected AIs never have shell access and can never change files or write directly to the database.
"A connected AI can only do what you let it," said Young. "Some things are never available to any AI. That is the level of control people need before they are comfortable letting an AI into a site they run a business on."
The AI's requests reach the site over an encrypted connection through mcp.automatorplugin.com, Uncanny Automator's hosted connection service, which links every site a user wants to manage through one connection. The service keeps a record of each request and result for 90 days, with credentials removed, and stores connection tokens encrypted; it never receives any WordPress password.
Availability
Uncanny Automator is available now, and includes a free plan. Users can install the plugin from WordPress.org, create a free account, and connect their AI in 60 seconds. For users without an AI subscription, Uncanny Agent is built in.
The free plan includes up to 300 tool uses a day for the first seven days, then 150 tool uses a day forever. A tool use is one thing an AI does on a site through the Uncanny Automator MCP server. Three paid plans, Basic, Plus and Elite, include unlimited tool usage and the Pro library of automation capabilities including conditions, loops and delays and many more triggers, actions and integrations. Monthly billing is available alongside annual plans. Plans and prices are available at automatorplugin.com/pricing/.
About Uncanny Owl
Uncanny Owl is a Toronto-based WordPress company. With 40,000+ active installs on WordPress.org, Uncanny Automator is an MCP server for WordPress with a built-in automation engine. Uncanny Owl also makes an eLearning plugin suite, including Tin Canny Reporting, Uncanny Redemption Codes, Uncanny Continuing Education Credits, Uncanny Toolkit and Uncanny Toolkit Pro for LearnDash and Uncanny Groups for LearnDash. Founded in 2013, Uncanny Owl is part of the Awesome Motive group of companies. Learn more at uncannyowl.com and automatorplugin.com.
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