How to Connect Claude or ChatGPT to All Your WordPress Sites (2026)

Phil Storey

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Short answer: you connect an AI assistant to your WordPress sites through an MCP server (Model Context Protocol), not through each site. A WordPress management platform such as Glow runs one MCP server for every site you manage, so Claude or ChatGPT can answer questions like "Which of my sites run Elementor below 3.18?" across 50 sites in one go. You sign in, the assistant sees only what your own login sees, and it can only change things you explicitly allow.

Why connect an AI assistant to WordPress at all?

Agencies rarely struggle with a single site. The hard questions are the fleet questions, the ones a per-site dashboard cannot answer without opening forty tabs:

Which sites are affected by the vulnerability announced this morning?
Which sites have not been backed up in the last week?
Which SSL certificates expire this month?
Which clients are over their support hours?
What needs attention across all my sites today?

An AI assistant connected to all of your sites turns each of these into one question and one answer.

What is MCP, and why does it matter for WordPress?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard Claude and ChatGPT use to talk to outside tools. An MCP server tells the assistant what it can read and what actions it can take, and the assistant calls it during the conversation.

You could connect an assistant to each WordPress site separately, but that means one connection, one set of credentials and one security review per site. Connecting through a management platform gives you one connection for the whole fleet, with the platform's own permissions, audit trail and safety checks in between.

How to connect Claude to your WordPress sites

Make sure your sites are connected to Glow (the Glow plugin on each site).
In Claude, open the connector directory and add Glow. If you add it by hand, the address is https://my.getglow.io/api/mcp.
Claude sends you to Glow to sign in. The next screen names exactly what Claude is asking to do.
Approve reading (websites, updates, backups, uptime and reports). Running updates, changing uptime monitoring and logging work are separate permissions you can leave off.
Ask your first question.

Full instructions: Connecting Claude to Glow.

How to connect ChatGPT to your WordPress sites

Open Glow in ChatGPT's app directory and choose Connect.
Sign in to Glow and approve what ChatGPT may do, the same way as above.
If your ChatGPT workspace does not allow directory apps, add Glow by hand with the address https://my.getglow.io/api/mcp.

Full instructions: Connecting ChatGPT to Glow.

Good questions to ask once it is connected

You ask	What it saves you
What needs attention across my sites today?	A morning check of every dashboard
Which sites run WooCommerce below 9.4?	Opening the plugin list of every site
Which sites have not been backed up in the last week?	Checking backup logs one by one
Which certificates expire this month?	A spreadsheet of SSL dates
Which clients are over their hours?	Adding up time logs per client
Update those three sites, safely.	Running updates by hand (only if you granted update permission)

Is it safe to let an AI assistant near client websites?

It is, if the connection is designed for it. These are the questions to ask of any AI integration, and how Glow answers them:

What can it see? Exactly what your own login sees. If your account is limited to certain sites, so is the assistant.
What can it change? Nothing by default. Reading is the standard request; updates and other changes are separate permissions you grant one by one.
How are changes made? Updates run as Glow Safe Updates: a backup and a screenshot first, then a visual check afterwards, and an automatic rollback if something breaks.
Can it delete anything? No. There is no delete capability, so no conversation can remove a site, a backup or a user.
Does it get site credentials? No. It never receives passwords, connection keys or anything that would let it reach a website directly.
Can you end it? Yes, at any time, from Settings, Integrations, AI assistants.

More detail: AI assistants: security and data.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a paid Claude or ChatGPT plan?

You need your own Claude or ChatGPT account that supports connectors or apps. The conversation happens inside the assistant. The Glow side is included on every Glow plan.

Does this work with other AI assistants?

Glow's AI connection uses MCP, the open standard Claude and ChatGPT support. Claude and ChatGPT are the two with directory listings and step-by-step guides.

Can the assistant update plugins on its own?

Only if you grant the update permission, and only through Safe Updates with a backup and a rollback. Without that permission it can tell you what needs updating but cannot change anything.

Does connecting an AI assistant slow my sites down?

No. Most questions are answered from data Glow already holds about your sites, so a question across 50 sites does not mean 50 visits to your clients' servers.

How many sites can it work across?

Every site connected to your Glow account that your login can see. Agencies use it across dozens or hundreds of sites.

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