Prompts – WordPress for Cowork

200 ready-to-use prompts you can paste into Claude Cowork after running /wp-setup. Each one assumes the two install steps are done: (1) the free Cowork Bridge plugin installed on your WordPress site (it hosts the MCP endpoint locally — your data never leaves your server), and (2) the WordPress for Cowork .plugin loaded into Cowork on your desktop. Click anywhere, copy the line, paste into Cowork. Categories below — skip to whichever section you need.

Featured — the prompt that changes everything

If you only run one prompt today, run this one. Show Claude a website you like. Tell it to build a theme — a complete WordPress theme that applies to every page on your site, not just one landing page. Homepage, all pages, all posts, blog, products, checkout — all updated in one pass. About five minutes from prompt to live site.

I want a theme that looks like stripe.com and applies to every single page on my site — homepage, all pages, all posts, the blog, the checkout — not just one landing page. Match the colors, fonts, header, footer, and navigation. Make it global.

Variations of the same idea — copy the version closest to what you want. All of them are sitewide.

Build me a theme like notion.so and apply it across my whole site. Homepage, blog, product pages, checkout — same look everywhere.
I want a sitewide redesign in the style of linear.app. Update my header, footer, nav, all my pages, and my product templates to match.
Take the visual style from airbnb.com and apply it as my global theme. Every page should feel like part of the same brand.
Migrate my whole site to a theme that looks like framer.com. Update the header, footer, color palette, typography, and all existing pages in one pass.
Build me a sitewide theme that feels like basecamp.com — long-form, opinionated, lots of headings, no marketing fluff. Apply it to every page.
I like the dark elegance of apple.com. Build me a sitewide theme in that style and update all my existing pages to inherit it.

What "sitewide" actually means. Claude updates four things together when you ask for a global theme: (1) theme.json global styles — colors, fonts, spacing — which cascade to every page automatically; (2) the header template part, used on every page; (3) the footer template part, used on every page; (4) the nav menu styling. Existing page content keeps its structure but inherits the new global look.

To make it land really well — include three things in your prompt: (1) the reference URL, (2) your brand colors (hex codes if you have them), (3) one or two specific fonts. Claude analyses the reference, proposes a layout, asks one clarifying question if needed, and builds the theme. Iterate after the first draft: "tighten the spacing", "swap the testimonial section for a logo bar", "make the hero shorter".

Why we recommend one theme, not a pile of landing pages

It's tempting to ask Claude for a custom landing page for every campaign — a beautiful Black Friday page, a separate consulting page, a one-off product launch page, each with its own hero, its own colors, its own fonts. Don't do that. Three months later you have ten pages that all look like different websites, and changing your brand color means editing every one of them by hand.

Use the sitewide theme prompt above. Ask Claude for one coherent theme that applies everywhere. Then each individual page is just content inside that theme. Want to change your brand purple? One prompt, every page updates. Want to add a new page? It automatically inherits the look of every other page. Want to swap fonts? Same — one change, sitewide.

If a specific campaign needs a different look, ask Claude for a variant of your theme ("use my theme but with the Black Friday accent color"), not a separate landing-page design. Variants inherit the global structure and only override what they need.

This is also how every well-designed site you can think of works — Stripe, Notion, Linear, Airbnb. Their pages don't each have a unique design; they're all variations on one coherent design system. That's why their sites feel like brands instead of collections of pages.

Single-page variant (use sparingly)

If you genuinely just need one standalone page — a contest entry, a one-off promo, a microsite — and you're sure you won't need it to match the rest of your site, the single-page version of the prompt looks like this:

I like stripe.com — build me a single landing page that looks like this, with my brand colors (#c084fc and #ec4899). Don't change my global theme.

But please ask yourself first: should this actually be a page in my existing theme? Almost always, yes.

1. Posts & Pages

List all my draft posts from the last 30 days, oldest first.
Publish a 600-word blog post about why small businesses should use AI in 2026. Conversational tone. Tag it "AI" and "Business".
Schedule a new post titled "Spring Sale" for next Friday at 9am.
Find every post mentioning my old product name and replace it with the new one. Show me each change before applying.
Duplicate the "About" page as a draft so I can rewrite it without breaking the live version.
List pages that haven't been edited in over a year.
Convert the "Pricing" draft from a page to a post.
Show me the 10 most-commented posts on my site.
Update last week's post — change the headline to something more clickable and bump the publish date.
Trash all posts in the "Test" category.
Find any posts with broken outbound links and list them.
Auto-generate SEO titles for my last 20 posts.
Set today's featured post as the homepage hero.
List drafts that are over 800 words but haven't been published.
Create a series of 5 short posts (200 words each) introducing the team. Drafts only.
Move the "Coming Soon" page into the main menu.
Find any page where the H1 is missing or duplicated and tell me where to fix it.
Set the front page to the "Home v2" page and move the current homepage to /old-home/.
List every page with internal links pointing to a 404.
Bulk-publish all my drafts in the Tutorials category.

2. WooCommerce Products

List all products under $50 in the Books category.
Create a downloadable ebook product for $19.99 titled "The Complete WordPress Guide". Add a 200-word description.
Raise the price of every product in the Electronics category by 8%, rounded to the nearest dollar.
Duplicate the Solo plan as a draft for testing.
Set stock to 50 on every product in the Limited Edition category.
Apply a 20% sale price to every product, set the sale to start tomorrow and end next Sunday.
List products with stock under 5 so I can reorder.
Create three product variations for the T-Shirt — Small, Medium, Large — at the same price.
List products that have no featured image.
Find products with the longest descriptions and rank them.
Bulk-update SKU prefix on every product in the "2024 Collection" from OLD- to NEW-.
Show me products that haven't sold in 90 days.
Create a Bundle product that combines Solo + Manual at a $20 discount.
Disable purchases for the "Coming Soon" product but keep the page live.
Set every product's tax class to "reduced rate" for the EU region.
List all virtual / downloadable products.
Show me which products are missing short descriptions.
Audit my product images for missing alt text.
Move every product in "Old Stock" to "Clearance" and apply a 50% sale.
Create a category called "Holiday Specials" and tag five existing products into it.

3. WooCommerce Orders & Customers

List the last 20 orders, oldest first, with total and customer email.
Show me orders worth over $200 from the last 30 days.
Mark order #123 as completed.
Refund order #456 fully through Stripe.
Add a private note to order #789 — "Customer requested gift wrapping".
List customers who've spent over $500 lifetime.
Find customers who haven't ordered in 6 months.
Create a coupon code LAUNCH25 — 25% off, expires next Friday.
Cancel subscription #99 with reason "customer request".
List all coupons that expire this month.
Show me which products were most-purchased last month.
Export all 2026 orders as CSV.
Add a customer-facing note to order #100 — "Shipped via USPS, tracking sent separately".
Find duplicate customer accounts (same email, different IDs).
List subscriptions due to renew this week.

4. Page Design (/wp-design)

Design a landing page for my consulting business — hero, services in three columns, testimonials, contact form.
Build a pricing page with three tiers — Starter $9, Pro $19, Enterprise $39 — using cards. Match my brand colors.
Design an About page with a left-aligned photo placeholder and biography text on the right.
Create a Coming Soon page with a logo, headline, email signup form, and social icons in the footer.
Build a FAQ page with collapsible questions, grouped into three sections.
Design a Contact page with a form, embedded map, and office hours.
Create a Testimonials page with quote cards arranged in a 2-column grid.
Build a portfolio page with image grid linking to individual project pages.
Design a Resources page with downloadable PDFs grouped by topic.
Build a Webinar landing page with a hero, agenda, speaker bios, and registration CTA.
Create a Members-only page that's only visible to logged-in users.
Design a Thank You page that customers land on after purchase, with their order details and next-step links.
Build a 404 page that suggests popular content instead of being blank.
Design a Press / Media page with logos and quotes from coverage.
Create a Case Studies index page that lists every case study with thumbnail + summary.
Build a Newsletter Archive page that lists past issues with previews.
Design a Pricing Comparison page that puts our plans next to a competitor's.
Create an internal Wiki-style page for team docs.
Build a launch announcement page with countdown timer and email signup.
Design a Tutorials hub page that lists every tutorial post grouped by skill level.

5. Theme & Site-Wide Styling (/wp-theme)

Change my header background to dark purple and the nav links to white.
Set the body font to Inter and the heading font to Manrope.
Add a notification banner at the top of every page — "Free shipping this week only" — and remove it next Monday.
Switch the active theme to Twenty Twenty-Five and migrate my pages.
Update the footer to include my mailing address, copyright, and three social icons.
Change every CTA button on the site to the same shade of purple.
Replace my old logo with the new one across every page.
Set the global accent color to #c084fc and the secondary accent to #ec4899.
Update the favicon.
Change the homepage layout to one column wide with no sidebar.
Add a sticky "Buy now" bar at the bottom of every product page.
Hide the comments section on every page (keep on posts).
Change my site title in the header to a logo image.
Update my navigation menu to: Home, Features, Pricing, Blog, Support.
Add a search icon to the navigation that opens a slide-down search box.

6. Comments & Moderation

Approve all pending comments that aren't obvious spam.
Reply to the last 10 unanswered comments with a short, helpful response. Use my usual tone.
Mark anything from senders matching "casino" or containing more than three URLs as spam.
Delete every comment in the trash queue.
Find comments older than a year and trash them.
List comments on the "About" page sorted by most recent.
Show me which posts get the most engaging comments.
Reply to all comments asking a question with "Thanks — I'll write a follow-up post on that".
Find duplicate comments (same author + same text) and keep only the first.
Approve every comment from authors who've been approved before.
Hold any comment containing more than 200 words for manual review.
List comments with attached URLs and let me decide which to approve.
Bulk-spam every comment from IPs that have already been flagged.
Show me comments awaiting moderation grouped by post.
Disable comments entirely on every post older than 6 months.

7. SEO & Search

Generate SEO titles and meta descriptions for every published post that's missing one.
Audit my site for broken internal links and suggest fixes.
Find pages with no H1 or with multiple H1s.
Show me my top-ranking pages from Google Search Console for the last 30 days.
Build a sitemap and submit it to Google.
Create 301 redirects from /old-blog/* to /blog/* preserving the slug.
Find pages with thin content (under 200 words) and list them.
Generate alt text for every image missing one. Show me the list before applying.
Identify duplicate title tags across my site.
Show me which pages have the highest bounce rate.
Update meta descriptions to include my brand name on every product page.
Find orphan pages (no internal links pointing to them).
List the search queries my site ranks for on page 2 of Google.
Improve internal linking — for each post, suggest 3 related posts to link to.
Find pages with slow load times and prioritize them.
Generate FAQ schema for my FAQ page.
Audit my SEO across the whole site and give me a scored report.
Find pages with missing or empty title tags.
List pages with broken canonical URLs.
Create a content gap report: topics competitors rank for that I don't.

8. Media & Images

Upload these three images and set them as featured for posts 101, 102, 103.
Find images larger than 500 KB and compress them.
List images that aren't used anywhere on the site.
Add alt text to every image in the Products folder.
Replace the old logo with the new one everywhere.
Generate descriptive alt text for the 50 most recent uploads.
Regenerate WordPress thumbnails for all images.
Find duplicate images in the media library.
Show me the largest 20 images by file size.
Audit images that are missing both alt text and a title.
Delete every image in the "Drafts" folder.
Upload a single image and use it as the OpenGraph preview for the homepage.
Update the description on every product image to match the product name.
Find broken image references (img tags pointing to missing files).
Compress and re-upload the hero images for every landing page.

9. Plugins & Themes

List my active plugins.
Show me plugins that have an update available.
Install Akismet and activate it.
Deactivate Jetpack but leave it installed.
Delete plugins I deactivated more than 30 days ago.
List installed themes and tell me which one is active.
Switch the active theme to Twenty Twenty-Four for testing, then switch back.
Find plugins that might be slowing down my site.
Update WooCommerce to the latest stable version.
Check which plugins are incompatible with my current WordPress version.

10. Backups & Restore

Take a backup of my site right now.
Show me all backups taken in the last 30 days.
Restore the backup from last Tuesday at noon.
Delete backups older than 60 days, except the first of each month.
Take a backup before I deactivate the SEO plugin.
Restore the pre-restore backup we just took — I changed my mind.
Show me what changed between today and yesterday's backup.
Take backups of all three of my connected sites in one go.
List the 10 most recent backups with size and timestamp.
Restore only the "options" portion of the May 14 backup (not pages or posts).

11. Users & Access

List my WordPress users by role.
Add [email protected] as an Editor.
Send a password reset email to [email protected].
Promote Sarah from Author to Editor.
Remove the inactive user [email protected] and reassign their posts to me.
List Application Passwords issued to my account and revoke any older than 90 days.
Find users who haven't logged in for over a year.
Show me which users have admin rights.
Create a Contributor account for the new freelance writer.
Lock the account of [email protected] immediately and notify me when done.

12. Site Health & Diagnostics

Run a full site health check.
Show me my current WordPress and PHP versions.
Run a pre-launch audit and give me a priority checklist.
Check that the REST API is responsive.
Show me my connected sites and their statuses.
Test the connection to my staging site.
Audit the site for security issues.
List recent admin logins.
Find any debug warnings in the WordPress error log.
Check whether XML-RPC is enabled and recommend whether to disable it.

13. Recipes (multi-step workflows)

Migrate my Medium archive — parse each HTML export, create drafts in WordPress preserving publish date and tags, don't publish yet.
Do a Black Friday switch: at midnight Friday change the homepage to the BF version, at 9am Monday switch it back.
Run a monthly content report — posts published, comments approved, top 5 most-viewed pages, top 5 commented posts.
Audit and fix broken links across the whole site — propose replacements, let me approve per link.
I just moved from oldsite.com to newsite.com — find every internal link still pointing to oldsite.com and update it.
Spot-check the site is healthy after a major plugin update — front page loads, recent posts render, comments form works.
For each of my last 10 published posts, write a 280-character Twitter-friendly excerpt and store it in the SEO description.
Find duplicate content (pages with substantially similar titles or bodies), suggest which to consolidate.
Take a backup, swap to the new theme, regenerate menus, run a visual audit, report back.
Build a coming-soon page and make it the temporary homepage, save the existing homepage as a draft for later.

14. Quick wins (10 fast tasks)

Hide my email address from the public profile but keep it in admin.
Add the year to my footer copyright automatically every January 1.
Set the timezone of my site to America/New_York.
Switch comment notifications to email me only for first-time commenters.
Turn on automatic background updates for plugins.
Show me a quick stat block: total posts, pages, products, comments, users.
Generate a CSV export of every customer email for my newsletter list.
Toggle the maintenance mode banner on for 30 minutes while I do an update.
Set a default category for all new posts.
Pin the "Welcome" post to the top of the blog page.

Tips for getting the best results

Be specific. "Show me my draft posts from the last 30 days, ordered by date descending, with category and word count" gets you exactly what you wanted. "Show me my posts" gets you 10 random ones and a back-and-forth.

Trust the safety prompts. Before any destructive operation — delete, overwrite, restore — Claude pauses and asks for confirmation. It also offers a one-click backup. Always say yes to the backup the first time you run something new.

Iterate. Claude designs in drafts. Look at the result, come back, ask for the change. "Make the hero taller and switch the headline to X" works perfectly.

Combine commands. "List my products under $50, then update them all to add free shipping" chains wc_list_products with wc_bulk_update_prices in one request. You don't need to break it up.

If you get stuck — run /wp-status for diagnostics, check the troubleshooting chapter in the manual at /my-account/downloads/, or email [email protected].