The NerdPress Guided Agent Connector

Your AI agent has read every WordPress tip on the internet. Including the bad ones.

Connect the AI agent you already use to your WordPress site and give it our expertise and best practices while it works so your agent’s good intentions don’t turn into bad days.

Our Founder and CEO Andrew talks about AI with a Tastemaker conference attendee.

AI agents are eager to help, and that’s not always a good thing.

More and more people are curious about putting AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT to work on their sites, cleaning up tags, fixing old links, or writing alt text. Those are great ways to use an agent!

But agents learn from the entire internet. And the internet has a lot of advice — some good, some outdated, and some that works for one site and breaks another. There may be five “right ways” to do something in WordPress, but only one of them is right for what you need.

Agents can break things on live websites not because they’re not capable, but because they can’t always tell the good tips from the bad ones. (Or they may be too eager to help and change more than you wanted!)

The expertise your agent can’t get anywhere else

We’ve supported thousands of WordPress sites over the past 15 years, and as our team has grown, we’ve built an internal library of hundreds of “best practices” and “how to” documents.

The Guided Agent Connector gives your agent access to that guidance while it works so it applies our hard-earned WordPress expertise to your project, instead of figuring things out on its own. If our guidance doesn’t cover something, we tell the agent to let you know — and not to take a wild guess! (And then we keep improving and expanding the guidance when it makes sense to do so!)

An example of prompting with and without the Guided Agent Connector.

How the NerdPress Guided Agent Connector works

Get up and running in just a few minutes!

1. Connect the agent you already use.

The Connector works with Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI agents that support custom connectors (also called MCPs). You won’t need to mess with new passwords or “authentication credentials” — it’s just a few clicks.

2. Your agent gets our expertise.

While you and your agent work on your site, it automatically gets NerdPress best practices and advice.

3. Put it to work.

Hand your agent the site chores you’ve been putting off (see some ideas below). But don’t worry, the riskiest changes, like deleting content, aren’t allowed unless you explicitly say so in your dashboard.

4. Do more with less.

We’ve designed the connector to reduce token usage dramatically. And it will be significantly more efficient and faster than having an agent use your web browser directly. This is not only better for the planet, it may also save you money.

NerdPress best practices on every task.

We guide your agent to follow the best practices and procedures that we know work well for sites like yours.

A record of changes and an undo button.

We log what happened (but never your prompts or content) – and many changes can be reverted.

Limits you choose.

The agent works within the permissions you allow, and for riskier changes we even require the agent to ask for your approval.

Real people behind it.

If something goes wrong, our Support Team is here to help sort it out.

The site chores you’ve been putting off

What your agent can do depends on your site and the permissions you give it. Here’s some of what NerdPress clients are already using it for:

  • Checking menus for broken links, then fixing them
  • Finding internal linking opportunities across older posts
  • Adding missing alt text to images
  • Cleaning up tags, categories, and other cruft on a 20-year-old blog (which never would have happened otherwise)
  • Expanding Category pages so they’re robust landing pages, not just “thin content”
  • Converting recipes from an old plugin to a more modern one (you know which we mean)
  • Improving titles and descriptions on hundreds of posts

Speaking of what you can do… We wrote the copy for this page in Google Docs and then gave it to Claude to build the layout and design and save it as a draft, all using the Connector. It saved us hours of futzing around with block settings! Browse our Connector prompt library for more ideas!

Ready to try it?

The Guided Agent Connector is a good fit for you if you:

  • Already use an AI agent like Claude or ChatGPT, or you’re curious to start
  • Want help with site tasks without handing over the keys completely
  • Have an AI plan that supports custom connectors
  • Don’t hate AI

Questions we’ve been asked

Does it cost extra?

The Connector is included with your Sleep Soundly, Inner Peace, Zen Master, or Enterprise NerdPress Support plan for no extra charge. However, you may need a paid plan for your AI agent of choice.

Can I get the Connector if I’m not a NerdPress client?

We’re including the Connector with most of our current Support Plans, which come with tons of other benefits as well. We are considering making it available to others in the future, but we’re not sure if or when that will happen — so if you want the Connector now, consider this just one more reason to sign up for our support! 😉

Which AI client apps work with it?

Any AI client app that supports custom connectors (also called MCPs), including Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. AI plan features change often, so check your AI agent’s plan to see if connectors are allowed.

Do I need to be a tech genius to use this?

Nope! If you can use your AI agent and log in to your WordPress dashboard, you can set up the Guided Agent Connector in a few minutes. If you get stuck, our Support Team is always happy to help.

What can my agent change on my site?

That depends on how you set it up. We’ve enabled most “WordPress core” features (such as updating content or editing menus). Other plugins on your site may make their own features available over time. (If they declare an “MCP Ability” we’ll automatically pick that up and help your agent use it.) The riskiest actions, like deleting content, deactivating plugins, or running updates, need to be allowed, and some changes will wait for your explicit approval.

Is it safe to use on my site?

While nothing is risk-free, we’ve built the Connector to be significantly safer when compared to other ways to let agents work on your site. This includes Guardrails, Guidance, Audit Logging, and an Undo function where possible. Particularly “risky” changes may also ask you to explicitly authorize them before your agent proceeds. (For the full legalese, check out the Guided Agent Terms.)

Ok, but what if something goes wrong?

We remind your agent to back up your site before potentially destructive changes, and you can undo most things, but if something happens, our Support Team will do our best to help sort it out (just keep in mind we’re mere mortals).

Can I disconnect it?

Yes, of course! You can revoke permissions for each connection separately, or simply uninstall the plugin and you’ll be all set.

Can I use open weight models with it?

Are you using open source agents and models like Pi or OpenCode with GLM or Kimi-K or Qwen? You’re our kind of nerd. 🤓
And you can use the Guided Agent Connector too! In fact, if you’re using a slightly less intelligent model than the frontier models, we really recommend that you use the Connector.

I’ve installed the plugin. Where do I find it, and what do I do next?

Installing the plugin is the first step. Then, add our Connector in your AI app and approve it on your site (see the setup guide). After that, our Connector “lives” inside your AI app. Start a new chat and ask for something, and you should see your agent say it’s using the NerdPress Connector. Not sure what to ask? Try “What can you do on my site?” Your agent will tell you.

I’ve never used an AI agent before. Where do I start?

You’ll need your own AI app, such as Claude or ChatGPT, usually on a paid plan that allows custom connectors. Connecting it to your site takes just a few clicks with our setup guide. After that, just start asking questions! Your agent and our Connector’s guidance will help you along, and our support team is here if you get stuck.

Which AI app and model should I use?

The model matters more than the app. Most AI apps let you choose between models, and the newer, more capable ones make fewer mistakes (or they’re supposed to). Use the most capable one your plan includes. NerdPress uses Claude, but ChatGPT works well too. If you already use one and like it, stick with it.

What’s a “model”?

A model is the program behind your AI app: It’s been trained on a large amount of text to recognize patterns and answer questions. Most AI apps offer several models that differ in speed, what tasks they’re best at performing, and how well they answer. Examples include Anthropic’s Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Luna, Sol, and Astra (These are listed in order of increasing capabilities, but also increasing cost).

What kinds of things can I ask it to do?

If you can do it in WordPress, and you’ve given your agent permission, it can probably do it.

Things clients and the team have done so far:
• Find old posts worth updating and what’s missing from them
• Add missing meta descriptions and alt text
• Merge duplicate tags and clean up categories
• Catch recipe measurement mistakes or missing information
• Move old FAQ sections into Yoast FAQ blocks
• Add a synced pattern to every post in a category
• Build a landing page or link-in-bio page that matches your site’s style
• Migrate content from one plugin to another
• Build out a landing page from a draft you wrote elsewhere, like a Google Doc

Do I have to switch to Claude (or ChatGPT)?

We built our Connector to work with the AI app you already use. If you like ChatGPT, keep using ChatGPT. Love Claude? So do we! The only caveat is that some AI platforms do not yet support connectors, so you’ll need to be sure you’re using one that does.

Can it help with strategy, or only tasks?

Both! It’s up to you. Your agent can read and analyze your content, tell you what to work on first, and then make the changes. For example, it can review a post, suggest meta description options, and update the post once you’ve picked one. To get better results, it’s important to give your agent as much context as possible, such as connections to your analytics and Google Search Console and any other information or tools that you normally use.

Can it work alongside other content management tools, like Occasio or Clariti?

Yes. Currently, the tools don’t connect to each other directly, but if you connect them all to your agent, it can use them together. For example, you can prompt it with something like: “Get the Occasio recommendations for this post, talk them through with me, and then apply the ones I approve.”

Can my agent update a live post without changing it right away?

Yes, and you don’t necessarily need a rewrite-and-republish plugin. Instead, you can ask your agent to make a new, draft copy of the post first — including its SEO title and description — for you to review. Once you’re happy with it, the agent can move the new content into the live post and save a revision. This preserves all the other post information, like the slug and existing comments, and works with WordPress revisions, so you can roll back if needed.

Can my agent upload images to my site?

Yes. AI agents can’t usually upload larger files to WordPress on their own, but our Connector gives them a way to. For your own photos, uploading straight to your media library is still the easiest option. You can then let your agent know you’ve added them, and it will easily find them in your library.

Where does NerdPress’s guidance come from, and is it kept up to date?

It comes from our team’s own documentation, built over years of supporting publishers’ sites. For SEO, we reference Google’s own documentation for the technical side and only add other advice after checking it against several trusted sources. We track SEO and Google changes and update the guidance as things happen, and updates reach our Connector quickly. When we don’t have guidance on something, your agent will tell you, and sometimes point you to a trusted partner.

Could changes my agent makes hurt my SEO?

Any change to your site can affect SEO, whether you make it or your agent does. That’s why our Connector gives your agent NerdPress’s guidance before it acts, including SEO practices based on Google’s own documentation. Every change is recorded in your activity log, and many of them can be undone. Ultimately, you’re still in charge and responsible for what is on your site, so always review what your agent changes, especially on posts that bring in a lot of traffic, and try bigger changes on a staging site first.

Will the NerdPress Connector use up my AI plan’s limits?

It’s built to use far less of your plan’s usage than connecting an agent to WordPress directly. It’s also part of our B Corp commitment: Lower usage means less energy used.