How to integrate WordPress.com MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With WordPress.com MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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WordPress.com is a hosted website and blogging platform for building sites, publishing posts, and managing media. It gives creators and teams a simple way to publish, grow, and measure content online.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With WordPress.com MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • CodeAct: A dedicated workbench that allows GPT to write its code to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Large tool responses: Handle them to minimise context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so GPTs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install WordPress.com MCP in Codex

Run the setup command

Run this command in your terminal to add the Composio MCP server to Codex.

Terminal

It will initiate the authentication in a browser window, authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

Composio authentication page

(Optional) Authenticate with OAuth

To authenticate manually, run the login command to open a browser window and authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

bash
codex mcp login composio

Verify the connection

Run codex mcp list to confirm Composio appears as a registered MCP server.

bash
codex mcp list

Codex App

Codex App follows the same approach as VS Code.

  1. Click ⚙️ on the bottom left → MCP Servers → + Add servers → Streamable HTTP:
  2. Fill the header and Key fields with { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }.
  3. The Key is the Composio API key, that you can find on dashboard.composio.dev
  4. Click on Authenticate and authorize Codex to your Composio account and you're all set.
Codex App MCP setup
  1. Restart and verify if it's there in .codex/config.toml
bash
[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

What is the WordPress.com MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The WordPress.com MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your WordPress.com account. It provides structured and secure access to your sites, posts, pages, drafts, media, comments, statistics, and Reader subscriptions, so your agent can review sites, find content, manage draft posts, explore site resources, and gather writing ideas on your behalf.

  • Draft post management: Have your agent create, revise, review, or permanently delete draft posts while keeping unpublished work private.
  • Content discovery and review: Instruct your agent to search posts and pages, read editable content, check publication status, or browse posts from a site.
  • Site overview and traffic insights: Let the agent summarize your site's identity, plan, settings, capabilities, and recent traffic information.
  • Media, comments, and taxonomy review: Direct your agent to list media, comments, categories, tags, or site users when planning and organizing content.
  • Writing prompts and Reader subscriptions: Have your agent find relevant WordPress.com blogging prompts or review the sites and feeds followed by your account.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated WordPress.com with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with WordPress.com directly from your terminal, VS Code, or the Codex App using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across CLI, VS Code, and standalone app
  • Natural language commands for WordPress.com operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • CodeAct workbench for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking Codex to perform various WordPress.com operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every WordPress.com action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Draft Post

Create a non-public draft post on an authorized site.

Delete Draft Post

Permanently delete an existing draft post after verifying it is still a draft.

Get Post

Get one post by ID in editable context, including raw content and its current status.

Get Site Overview

Get concise identity, plan, capabilities, editable settings, and traffic summary for one authorized site.

List Blogging Prompts

List WordPress.

List CMS Resources

List categories, tags, comments, media, or users for an authorized site through one consistent paginated read tool.

List Content

List and search editable posts or pages on an authorized site, including drafts, with compact raw and rendered content fields and agent-controlled pagination.

List Reader Subscriptions

List feeds and sites followed by the connected WordPress.

List Sites

List every WordPress.

Update Draft Post

Update title, body, excerpt, taxonomy, featured media, or comment policy for an existing draft.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone WordPress.com MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of WordPress.com tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from WordPress.com and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Codex fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right WordPress.com tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which WordPress.com scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your WordPress.com data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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