You can now let an AI agent modify your WordPress.com site

WordPress.com It enables customers on its paid plans to leverage an AI agent to perform tasks on their behalf. Agents like Claude and ChatGPT can now create live blog posts on your website, respond to comments and more, the website building and hosting service said Friday.

This news comes after WordPress.com introduced support for the Model Context Protocol last year, which allowed AI agents to read your website’s content, analytics, and settings, but without modifying your website. With new writing capabilities, you can ask your agent to approve pending comments, create a landing page, or fix image alt text, among other requests.

According to a WordPress.com blog post, your AI agent will ask for explicit confirmation from you and describe its plans before making any changes to your website. Any new posts or pages the agent creates start as drafts. Your agent can understand the “colors, fonts, spacing, and block styles” of your website’s theme, resulting in “output that inherits your site’s design system,” according to the blog post.

The cheapest monthly paid plan on WordPress.com, Personal, starts at $9. There is a free version of WordPress.com, but an upgrade to the Personal version is required for ad-free browsing, premium themes, and increased storage space. WordPress.com too Launched an AI website builder last year.

The update reflects a broader shift as generative AI becomes more intertwined with popular services and software. Recent examples include deeper integration between Cloud, Microsoft Excel and PowerPointAnd the ability to access Booking.com, Zillow, and more Directly inside ChatGPT.

If you pay for WordPress.com, you can try out new features there Enable MCP In your account, select the capabilities you want to turn on or off and connect to the MCP-powered AI tool, according to the blog post.