Cowork Bridge is the WordPress half of WordPress for Cowork. Installing it on your site is a standard WordPress plugin install.
Get the plugin file
Two ways:
- From your My Account page after purchase — download
cowork-bridge.zip. - Directly:
https://wordpressforcowork.com/downloads/cowork-bridge-latest.zip.
Install
- In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
- Choose
cowork-bridge.zip. - Click Install Now, then Activate.
- A new Cowork menu appears in your wp-admin sidebar. Click it.
- The Status page should show every row in green: mu-plugins installed, MCP endpoint registered, REST API reachable.
What activation does behind the scenes
Cowork Bridge copies two PHP files from its bundled assets/ folder into wp-content/mu-plugins/:
coworkmcp-endpoint.php— registers/wp-json/coworkmcp/v1/mcp.wpfc-extra-tools-interceptor.php— adds the extended 81-tool surface on top of the 44 base tools.
If you deactivate Cowork Bridge later, those mu-plugins stay in place so Cowork keeps working. To fully disconnect, deactivate the plugin and delete those two files from wp-content/mu-plugins/.
Host-specific guides
Some hosts need an extra step before install — security plugin tweaks, REST API allowlists, or firewall exceptions. Browse the Getting Started category for the page that matches your host: Hostinger, Bluehost, SiteGround, WP Engine, GoDaddy, Cloudways, DreamHost, Kinsta, self-hosted VPS, LocalWP.
Next step
After activation, install the desktop side and run /wp-setup in Cowork.