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IATO MCP

Name: IATO MCP
Author: iatoai

Exposes an MCP server from any self-hosted WordPress site, enabling AI agents like Claude to audit and fix your site in a single workflow.

IATO MCP ranks #13,498 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, is #605 of 4,265 in the SEO & Marketing category, and was last updated Oct 16, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v1.14.0 Current Version v1.14.0

Updated 3 weeks ago Last Update on 16 Oct, 2026

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Version: 1.14.0
Last Updated: Oct 16, 2026
Requires WP: 6.2+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 8.0 or higher
Author: iatoai

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for self-hosted WordPress site owners who want to connect their site to Claude Desktop or other MCP-enabled AI clients. It solves the problem of manually auditing and fixing SEO issues, orphan pages, broken links, and other site maintenance tasks by letting an AI agent read and edit site content directly.

Read and edit posts/pages/media
Create posts and pages
Update SEO titles and meta descriptions
Update canonical URLs and alt text
Manage navigation menus
Manage categories, tags, taxonomy
Manage JSON-LD structured data
Crawl site and run SEO audit

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about IATO MCP

No. The plugin works standalone for reading and editing WordPress content with 40 built-in tools. An IATO account (free trial up to 500 pages) unlocks 12 additional bridge tools: start/list/status crawl management, SEO audit, broken links, content gaps, orphan pages, navigation audit, taxonomy analysis, AI suggestions, and performance reports. They are available to administrators. If you manage several client sites, give each site its own IATO API key: a key can read every crawl in its account.

WordPress 6.2 or higher with PHP 8.0+. The plugin uses the WordPress REST API and implements OAuth 2.0 for secure authentication with AI clients.

Yes. The plugin uses standard HTTP requests (one per MCP call) rather than long-lived connections, so it works on all hosting environments including shared hosting.

Any MCP-enabled client: Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code with GitHub Copilot, and any client that supports the Streamable HTTP MCP transport.

The plugin generates a secure API key on activation. You can authenticate in two ways: paste the provided Bearer token config into your AI client, or use Claude's "Add custom connector" flow, which handles OAuth 2.1 with PKCE automatically. Each OAuth connection gets its own expiring token, acts as the administrator who approved it, and can be revoked on its own under Settings > IATO MCP > Connected OAuth clients.

AI clients like Claude Desktop authenticate via a WordPress Application Password (or the OAuth 2.0 / PKCE flow), which is the WordPress-native pattern most users will use. The plugin also accepts the plugin-generated Bearer token at the same MCP endpoint — that path is used by the IATO platform's own integrations (for example, the dashboard's "Sync pages, posts, menus, and taxonomy from WordPress" feature, which composes the plugin's read tools to pull content into IATO). Both methods land at /wp-json/iato-mcp/v1/message and are validated by class-auth.php. You don't have to choose — paste your Bearer token into the IATO platform connection, generate an Application Password for Claude Desktop, and the same plugin handles both.

WordPress content (post titles, meta descriptions, etc.) is never sent to IATO. IATO crawls your public URLs the same way a search engine would. Claude processes content within your AI client session only. The IATO API is only called when you use bridge tools, and only crawl analysis data (not your content) is transmitted.

Open the page in Elementor, go to History, then Revisions, and apply the last revision saved by a person before the first IATO edit. Then re-apply the IATO changes you want to keep. If revisions are disabled on the site, there is no earlier copy to restore. A page edited with IATO shows a missing link or image, or Elementor will not save it IATO 1.13.0 and earlier could store a plain value on an Elementor Atomic Editor (V4) element, such as a heading, paragraph, image or button built with the Atomic Editor, where Elementor expects a typed value. Elementor then drops a link or image it cannot read, and saving the page in Elementor fails with "Settings validation failed". To find the affected elements, read the page with get_elementor_data, get_elementor_widget, list_elementor_widgets or find_elementor_widgets. Since 1.13.1 they flag the element with stored_value_invalid: true, and invalid_keys names the settings to repair; get_elementor_data also lists them under invalid_elements. To repair an element, send each listed setting again with update_elementor_widget, set_widget_setting or set_heading_level. From 1.14.0 (with Elementor 4.3.0 or later) the plain value works, for example {"tag": "h2"} or {"link": {"destination": "https://example.com/"}}: IATO stores it in Elementor's format and the element is repaired. With 1.13.1, or on a site without Elementor 4.3.0, send it as a typed value, in the shape get_elementor_widget shows under settings for the element, for example {"tag": {"$$type": "string", "value": "h2"}}. When several elements on a page are affected, repair them one at a time; Elementor saves the page normally again once the last one is repaired. A damaged element cannot be copied (update_elementor_patch refuses the copy): repair the source first, then copy it. You can also restore a revision saved before the IATO edit, under History, then Revisions, in Elementor.

Yes, from 1.14.0, with Elementor 4.3.0 or later and the Atomic Editor turned on. set_heading_level, set_widget_setting, update_elementor_widget, update_elementor_widgets_bulk and update_elementor_patch take plain values for atomic headings, paragraphs, buttons, images and containers, and update_alt_text takes post_id and element_id for an atomic image. IATO converts and validates each value with Elementor's own code and keeps every setting the call does not name as it was stored. Changes go live, like edits to classic widgets, and each one can be rolled back on its own. The alt text of an image from the Media Library belongs to the attachment, so IATO changes it there, and the change applies everywhere that image is used. Global classes and component instances are not edited by IATO yet. On sites with an older Elementor, IATO accepts only typed values for atomic elements and says what is missing. While the Atomic Editor is off, IATO does not change atomic elements at all, because Elementor cannot check them; the rest of the page can still be edited.

Yes. Go to Settings > IATO MCP to enable or disable individual tools. You can turn off any tool you don't want AI clients to access.