Quick quastion

  • Resolved Nadav Levi

    (@123nadav)


    1 week, 5 days ago

    Hey guys. i have quastion.

    So i am confuse.

    I see this on the official WordPress Github:

    https://github.com/WordPress/mcp-adapter

    now, my question if your plugin is actually this git? or its 2 diffrent things? and which is better? by the way, this plugin has MCP? or you only can use API Keys? should i install mcp-adapter? sorry but i am really confused.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Jeffrey Paul

    (@jeffpaul)

    1 week, 5 days ago

    @123nadav the git-based source for the WordPress AI plugin is https://github.com/wordpress/ai. The MCP Adapter repo on GitHub will eventually publish as a plugin on WPORG, you can track that effort here: https://github.com/WordPress/mcp-adapter/issues/178.

    Thread Starter Nadav Levi

    (@123nadav)

    1 week, 5 days ago

    @jeffpaul thank you for your help!

    From what you sent me, I see that the MCP is actually very close to being a plugin, which is good!

    For now, I downloaded the latest versions to a local site so I can test them. But there are a couple of things I got confused about, and if you could help me understand them, it would be very helpful.

    So, I read the MCP Adapter page:
    https://make.wordpress.org/ai/2025/07/17/mcp-adapter/

    It looks like WordPress is trying to introduce a new bundle of AI plugins and Core functionality.

    From what I understand, there are three main parts:

    Abilities API
    https://make.wordpress.org/ai/2025/07/17/abilities-api/
    https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/11/introducing-the-wordpress-abilities-api/

    MCP Adapter
    https://make.wordpress.org/ai/2025/07/17/mcp-adapter/
    https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/02/from-abilities-to-ai-agents-introducing-the-wordpress-mcp-adapter/

    AI Plugin (yours)
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai/

    I have now read about all three and installed both the MCP Adapter and the AI Plugin.

    As I understand it, the Abilities API is already included in WordPress Core, so there is nothing separate to install for it. I’m not 100% sure if I understood that correctly.

    So I believe all three are designed to work together.

    For example, I installed the AI Plugin first. In the AI Plugin, there is an option called “Explore Abilities”, which opens a section in the WordPress admin interface.

    I assume these Abilities can eventually be controlled/exposed through MCP.

    However, there are a couple of things I don’t understand.

    For example:

    “List All URLs” – Abilities API
    https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2025/11/introducing-the-wordpress-abilities-api/

    I don’t see this Ability when I activate the “Explore Abilities” option in the AI Plugin. I’m pretty sure it should be there, but maybe I’m misunderstanding how this works.

    Is the Abilities API actually a separate component that I need to install in order to get more Abilities, or is it already part of WordPress Core and the available Abilities come from other plugins/Core functionality?

    Also:

    • Should I work with the AI Plugin (your plugin) when using the MCP Adapter?
    • Should I activate all the options inside the AI Plugin even if I don’t use a Connector, because I’m using the MCP Adapter and mainly want access to the Abilities?
    • Should I install only the MCP Adapter, and will that give me everything the AI Plugin has to offer?
    • Or am I completely misunderstanding how these three components are supposed to work together?

    I know this is a bit of a mess 😅, but if you could help me understand the correct approach and how these three pieces are supposed to fit together, it would help me a lot.

    Thank you!

    Plugin Author Jeffrey Paul

    (@jeffpaul)

    1 week, 4 days ago

    Is the Abilities API actually a separate component that I need to install in order to get more Abilities, or is it already part of WordPress Core and the available Abilities come from other plugins/Core functionality?

    There are some abilities that have shipped in WordPress core and there are some additional ones that are available in the AI plugin (as a place to test their function before moving those over to core in future WP releases). If you enable the custom abilities in the AI plugin and the abilities explorer experiment, then you’ll be able to see all the abilities available from core and the AI plugin (as well as any other abilities that other plugins installed on your site might be exposing).

    Should I work with the AI Plugin (your plugin) when using the MCP Adapter?

    That depends on what AI-powered functionality you’re looking for. The readme for the AI plugin lists our current (and coming soon) functionality.

    Should I activate all the options inside the AI Plugin even if I don’t use a Connector, because I’m using the MCP Adapter and mainly want access to the Abilities?

    If you only want access to the abilities, then follow my answer from the question above and can skip activating other experiments in the plugin (though many of those add their own abilities which you’ll be missing).

    Should I install only the MCP Adapter, and will that give me everything the AI Plugin has to offer?

    The MCP adapter basically gives your site a way to communicate with AI agents, so perhaps your agent accessing your site via MCP could take different actions than the AI plugin, but the AI plugin has more pre-set experiments with repeatable tasks that can be taken with AI assistance. Really a matter of what you’re trying to achieve with AI.

    Also, no longer a quick question. 😉

    Thread Starter Nadav Levi

    (@123nadav)

    1 week, 4 days ago

    wow man, @jeffpaul this was good, thank you for all of this, you did to me a little bit of order haha.

    thank you appreciate the detailed explantions.

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