🔥 Early bird prices end soon — save up to 51%
This plugin is going to revolutionise the way WordPress websites are made Get Early Bird Price

WordPress for Cowork

How to connect
your WordPress site

Written by

in

Three steps, about a minute. There is nothing to configure by hand and nothing to copy between windows except one file.

Step 1 — Install the plugin on your WordPress site

In wp-admin: Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose wordpress-for-cowork.zip from your My Account page, then Install Now and Activate. Full detail: Installing the plugin.

Step 2 — Paste your licence key

Open the new Cowork menu in your wp-admin sidebar, paste your licence key (it looks like CW-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX) and save. The plugin validates it, generates its own credentials, and installs its endpoint.

Step 3 — Download your connector and drop it into Claude

On that same Cowork page, click Download my Claude connector. You get a .plugin file already built for your site — nothing to type in or configure.

  1. In Claude Desktop, go to Customize → Plugins → Add → Upload local plugin and choose the file.
  2. Quit Claude Desktop completely and reopen it. Closing the window is not enough.

Ask Claude to list your recent posts. If they come back, you are connected.

What you do not have to do

  • No Application Password. The plugin creates and manages its own. You never generate one or paste one into a conversation.
  • No allowlist. Nothing to add in Claude’s settings and no restart needed for it.
  • No setup command. There is no /wp-setup to run — the connector arrives already knowing your site.
  • No Chrome extension.

Where your credentials live

On your computer and on your own server — never on ours. The connector file contains the credentials for your site, which is why downloading a new one immediately invalidates the previous one, and why the file should be treated like a password. Anyone who has it can manage your site.

To disconnect cleanly at any time, delete the plugin from wp-admin. That revokes the Application Password it generated and every connector built from it stops working.

Requirements

  • Your site must run on HTTPS — WordPress disables Application Passwords over plain HTTP.
  • Claude Desktop with Cowork, on Windows or Mac, with a paid Claude plan.
  • Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge for the setup steps. Safari, Brave and Vivaldi are not supported.

If it does not connect

The usual cause is a security plugin or host firewall blocking REST API authentication — see Security plugin is blocking the connection. If the Cowork page in wp-admin shows coworkmcp-endpoint.php missing, the licence has not been accepted yet: re-check the key and save again.

More posts