Claude WordPress MCP is the read path. You add the hosted server once. Claude sees the same tools as Cursor. The first question that pays for the setup is not “write a post”. It is “which of these sites are still on WooCommerce below 9.4?”.
A question that covers the group
Claude asks the relay. The relay already has heartbeats. You get a list, not twenty screenshots. Unexpected admin, PHP 7.4, a plugin left disabled on disk — those show up on a site you thought was clean.
What Claude must not do
It must not update, delete, or install. If a tutorial shows Claude pushing a plugin update through MCP, that tutorial is giving the model write access. We do not. You switch to the dashboard, read the recap, confirm.
Cursor is the same server
wordpress mcp cursor is the same URL. Do not stand up a second process. One token, one fleet, two clients if you want them.
