# WPGuard MCP MCP Server

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

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/cgallic/wpguard-mcp)

**GitHub popularity:** 0 stars on [cgallic/wpguard-mcp](cgallic/wpguard-mcp), recorded 2026-09-10.

## Status

Pod has not dialled WPGuard MCP yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `ghcr.io/cgallic/wpguard-mcp:0.4.0` on oci. Runs locally.

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**12 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

### Most discussed

### Plugin/theme update verb with automatic rollback on fatal error

## Problem

Plugin/theme updates are the single most common real-world WordPress "oh no" event — an update breaks the site, and the site owner finds out from a support ticket, not from monitoring. No current tool (this one included) has a dedicated, safe verb for this.

## Proposed approach

- Add a Tier2 \`wp_update_plugin\` / \`wp_update_theme\` verb: snapshot the current version (already-installed zip or version pin) before updating, run the update via WP-CLI, then immediately check for PHP…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cgallic/wpguard-mcp/issues/23) · 2026-07-16 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Add block-aware wp_mutate_block verb for Gutenberg content (not just raw search/replace)

## Problem

\`wp_mutate_post_content\` currently does search/replace against raw HTML/serialized content. GravityKit's Block MCP (github.com/GravityKit/block-mcp) benchmarked structured block-tree edits at 9/9 success vs. 0/5 for raw-HTML edits on the same tasks — raw string mutation against Gutenberg's block-comment format is fragile and easy for an agent to corrupt.

## Proposed approach

- Add a Tier2 \`wp_mutate_block\` verb that parses the post into its Gutenberg block tree (via…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cgallic/wpguard-mcp/issues/4) · 2026-07-16 · closed · 1 comment

[See all 12 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/wpguard-mcp/issues).

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used WPGuard MCP yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

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<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find WPGuard MCP, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "WPGuard MCP",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=WPGuard MCP' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/wpguard-mcp.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/wpguard-mcp.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

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