# royal-mcp MCP Server

Security-first WordPress MCP server. 129 tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini. Free on wp.org.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

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## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://demo.royalplugins.com/wp-json/royal-mcp/v1/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "royal-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://demo.royalplugins.com/wp-json/royal-mcp/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Known issues

**20 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### wp_update_post silently ignores menu_order (and reports success)

## Bug: `wp_update_post` silently ignores `menu_order` (and reports success)

### Summary
The `wp_update_post` MCP tool cannot change a post/page's `menu_order`. The parameter
is neither in the tool's input schema nor mapped into the update payload, so any request
to set it is silently dropped — yet the tool still returns `"Post updated successfully"`.
Because there is no read-after-write, an MCP client (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini) is told
the operation succeeded when in fact nothing changed. Thi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/61) · 2026-07-20 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### noindex issue with rank math

# `wp_get_seo_meta` always reports `noindex: false` on Rank Math, and `wp_update_seo_meta` writes a malformed robots array

**Plugin version:** 1.4.36
**SEO plugin:** Rank Math (Yoast path is unaffected)
**File:** `includes/MCP/Server.php`

## Summary

Two separate bugs in the Rank Math branch of the SEO meta tools:

1. **`wp_get_seo_meta` never reports `noindex: true`.** The reader casts an array to a string before searching it, so the check can never match. `noindex` is returned as `false` for

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/60) · 2026-07-19 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Oauth issue with Claude

Bug report: Intermittent HTTP 403 "Session credentials mismatch" with Claude (OAuth) during extended sessions
Plugin: Royal MCP 1.4.34
WordPress: 7.0.1
Host: Simply.com (Apache/LiteSpeed shared hosting) — host WAF ruled out (see Evidence)
Client: Claude custom connector, OAuth 2.1 mode (the only mode the Claude connector exposes)
Endpoint: POST /wp-json/royal-mcp/v1/mcp
Likely related: open issue #13 ("MCP session terminates repeatedly during extended operations, ~50 API calls")
Summary
When Cla

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/54) · 2026-07-11 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Woocommerce order pagination

Pls support woocommerce order pagination to retrieve tons of orders

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/41) · 2026-06-22 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Bug: Gutenberg block `style.css` escaping is corrupted via Royal MCP

### Environment

- WordPress: 7.0 RC3
- Royal MCP: 1.4.15
- Affected methods:
  - `wp_update_page`
  - `wp_create_page`

### Summary

When creating or updating Gutenberg block content through Royal MCP, escaped characters inside a block's `style.css` attribute are not preserved correctly.

This affects the new per-block Custom CSS feature in WordPress 7.0 RC3. Escaped newlines (`\n`) and escaped ampersands (`\u0026`) inside Gutenberg block JSON can be transformed into invalid strings such as `n`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/15) · 2026-05-13 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Most recent

### Enhancement: search parameter on wp_get_media (title, filename, alt text)

## The problem

`wp_get_media` accepts only `per_page` (max 100) and `mime_type` — there is no way to find a specific attachment. The only path is paging the library 100 at a time and scanning `title` / `alt_text` client-side.

Real case: a homepage customer-logo strip had an enterprise customer's name misspelled in the image `alt` text. `wp_update_media` can fix it in one call, but finding the attachment ID first means paging the entire media library — on a site with a few thousand attachments 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/76) · 2026-08-05 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Enhancement: expose content_length in wp_get_posts / wp_get_pages / wp_search results

## The problem

An agent cannot tell how large a post is without fetching it. On a page-builder site that is the difference between a 200-byte answer and a 1.1 MB one, and there is no way to triage without paying the cost.

Concrete case from a production audit: size-checking 20 candidate pages to decide which were safe to edit meant fetching all 20. One was a pricing page at **1,104,943 bytes**, discovered *by receiving it*. Word count is actively misleading as a proxy — a 551-word Avada post m

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/75) · 2026-08-05 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Feature: readable revision content and server-side diff (wp_get_revision_content / wp_diff_revisions)

## The problem

`wp_get_post_revisions` returns `revision_id`, `parent_id`, `author_name`, `date`, `title`, `word_count` — but there is no way to **read** a revision's content, so there is no way to diff a post against its own prior state through MCP.

This matters because "verify your change and confirm nothing else moved" is a standard requirement for agent-driven edits. With no readable revisions, the only fallback is crawling the rendered public page before and after and diffing HTML externa

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/74) · 2026-08-05 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Feature: wp_replace_sitewide — cross-post find/replace with mandatory dry run

## The problem

`wp_replace_in_post` (#70) covers single-document edits, but real content-hygiene work is inherently cross-post. From one production audit:

Today each correction is N separate `wp_search` calls to locate, then N per-post replace calls, with no way to confirm the set is complete before starting or that it is closed afterwards.

## Proposed tool

```
wp_replace_sitewide(find, replace, post_types?, post_status?, dry_run, expected_count?)
  → { total_matches, posts: [ { id, title, 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/73) · 2026-08-05 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Feature: Avada / Fusion Builder integration — text-block read + write tools

## The problem

Avada stores page-builder state as nested shortcodes in `post_content`, and the ratio of markup to human-readable copy is brutal. Measured on a live production site (WP 7.0.2, PHP 8.4, Royal MCP 1.4.38, 364-page content audit):

| Page | Visible copy | `post_content` |
|---|---|---|
| a typical blog post | 551 words | ~55 KB |
| `/pricing/` | ~800 words | **1,104,943 bytes** |
| an integrations page | ~600 words | ~60 KB |

That is roughly **100:1 overhead**, on every post type o

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/72) · 2026-08-05 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Woocommerce direct HPOS

Please support direct HPOS reading for WooCommerce

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/42) · 2026-06-22 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Feature request: Add Yoast slug field support

I would like the Yoast integration in Royal MCP to include support for updating the Yoast slug field.

## Problem this solves

When using Royal MCP to create or update SEO content, the integration can assist with Yoast-related metadata, but the URL slug field does not appear to be available through the Yoast integration workflow.

This creates a gap when using an AI client to fully prepare or optimize a post/page, because the title, meta description, and other SEO fields may be handled, but the 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/royalplugins/royal-mcp/issues/34) · 2026-06-08 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[See all 18 reports Pod holds for royal-mcp](/mcp/royal-mcp/issues) — of 20 qualified upstream.

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