What changed in every release

Bridged tools such as WooCommerce orders and products failed in strict clients like Claude when a value didn't match the format the source plugin declared, for example a date without a timezone or an empty URL. Bridged tools no longer advertise strict formats; the values are unchanged.

A Site Brief box on the Settings tab lets you describe your site in a few lines. Every agent that connects to this plugin reads it.

The Connection tab has a Connection Doctor. One click checks the connection from your own server and tells you what to fix, for example a host that strips the Authorization header.

A Needs review card on the Dashboard lists the drafts your agents wrote, with Preview, Open in editor, Publish and Discard buttons. Discard moves the post to the Trash.

Other plugins' tools on the MCP Adapter's default server stopped working while this plugin was active. A new Settings switch (Automatic, Always on, Always off) brings that server back, and existing sites move to Automatic, which starts it only when another plugin publishes tools there. This plugin's own tools never appear on it, so a site that used it only for WordPress core abilities should pick Always on.

With Force draft on, an agent that sent "publish" again for a post that was already live took it offline. The post now stays live. A "WP_MCP_VERSION already defined" warning next to the standalone MCP Adapter 0.6.x and a Settings crash with an older adapter copy are also fixed, and the plugin title now names Claude and ChatGPT.

Query Monitor showed a "bundled dependency" deprecation warning from the MCP Adapter on every request that started it; it no longer does.

With the standalone MCP Adapter plugin (0.7.0) active and loading before this one, the /mcp endpoint returned a 404. It now serves in either load order.

The standalone MCP Adapter plugin showed a red "Another version of MCP Adapter is already loaded" notice while this plugin's copy was in use. It no longer does.

The adapter's per-request "bundled dependency" deprecation line no longer lands in the PHP error log.

The bundled MCP Adapter moves from 0.6.1 to 0.7.0, and adapter versions 0.6.1 through 0.7.x are supported. The adapter itself now returns error -32602 instead of -32003 for an unknown tool, and clients must send the MCP-Protocol-Version header after initialize.

A bridged ability's error now says which plugin returned it, and the Activity Log records that plugin's error code (the code only, never its message).

37 bridged tools from WooCommerce, Meta Box, SiteOrigin, Premium Addons, SEOPress, WPForms, Elementor and ElementsKit worked when called but never showed in the tool list. They now list for users who can edit posts, and the source plugin still decides whether a call is allowed.

Deleting through bridged ACF reported an error after the item was already deleted. It now returns ACF's own result.

Bridged results holding plain objects (such as a PixelYourSite response) were refused after the write had already happened. They now come through, and a refused call is logged as an error instead of success.

On WordPress 7.0 and later, the raw exception text from a throwing plugin no longer reaches the client.

The Abilities tab now has one Save changes button that saves every section on it, with an "Unsaved changes" note and a warning if you leave the page with edits pending.

The Activity Log gets a row when an exposed list changes (content types, or post, user or term meta keys), giving the list name and how many keys were added and removed.

Edits to exposed meta keys or content types were lost when you pressed only the main Save. The four separate section buttons are gone, and the one Save covers them.

When a section fails to save, the page names it and keeps your edits so you can retry. Sections that did save stay saved.

The Activity Log table scrolled sideways when a value such as the detail JSON was long; the columns now share the page width and long values wrap.

An OAuth token issued for the MCP endpoint also signed its holder in on other REST routes, admin-ajax.php, admin-post.php, the comment form, the OAuth authorize screen and discovery URLs. It now works on the MCP route only.

Meta, SEO, media, WooCommerce and The Events Calendar writes now check the database for what actually landed and report written, unchanged, refused or a failed read. The Activity Log records each outcome, identifiers only.

Read-only mode, the high-risk lock, ability switches and the allowlist are read from the database on every MCP request. A failed read keeps the stricter setting, so a stale object cache can't loosen them.

WP-CLI printed a pair of "called incorrectly" notices for each enabled bridge tool whose source plugin was inactive; those tools are now skipped quietly. Activity Log rows for denied calls now read "Attempted: ..." instead of looking like the change happened.

Under a persistent object cache, the review prompt wiped other plugins' cached "option doesn't exist" entries; it now clears only its own. Smaller fixes land in replace-sitewide, WooCommerce gateway ordering, the Rank Math and AIOSEO head previews, and several tool descriptions.

The Connection tab swaps the allowlist textarea for a searchable checkbox picker and adds role and client selects, a Client ID copy control, paginated tables, and cross-tab abilities search.

A zero-match abilities search left the Save button stranded on an empty card; the savebar now hides and returns with the results.

The client picker's hover and selected states looked identical; hover is now a border outline only.

Ability order now survives a re-save, a stale search clears on keyboard navigation, a large allowlist no longer renders every checkbox at load, and new controls have accessible names and translations.

Post, block and template writes now confirm what landed, a stuck OAuth migration can no longer re-enable a switch you disabled, comment counts no longer hint at hidden comments, and a failed token revoke no longer reports success.

26 new abilities cover The Events Calendar, Event Tickets, Slim SEO, Avada, and GeoDirectory, plus uploading media straight from a URL. All of them stay off until you turn them on.

A page-builder guard refuses a write that would silently do nothing on a page owned by Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, or Avada. A new allowlist narrows what each role or connection can reach.

The bump to mcp-adapter 0.6.1 closes a multisite bug where a real subsite connection was reported as failed.

Several OAuth paths treated a failed database read as permission granted. A deactivated client, a missing client record, or an unreadable registration limit now refuse the request instead of letting it through.

Grants belonging to a deleted user are cleared out, the Connections screen shows each identity's current role, and a batch of smaller fixes lands across WooCommerce, the admin screens, and the connection tab.

The plugin is now fully compatible with a persistent WordPress object cache (Redis, Memcached, or a host's own drop-in): a switch you turn off stays off, and a change that did not take is reported instead of logged as done.

Reset to defaults and delete-on-uninstall clear the plugin's own option cache entries too, so a stale cache cannot bring a setting back after a reset.

The consent screen an agent sees at sign-in was rebuilt. It carries a real brand mark, your Site Icon, and the connector's own icon when the plugin recognizes it by its verified redirect host.

The Activity Log now records every MCP request that reaches WordPress. A sign-in with no calls after it means a CDN or firewall stopped the agent before it arrived.

ChatGPT could not connect on sites where dynamic client registration was off. It has its own switch on the Settings tab again, on by default, and existing installs get switched on when they update.

Three connection bugs are gone: the OAuth authorize step mangled percent-encoded redirect addresses, a failed session write handed back a session ID that did not exist, and a very large tool schema could exhaust memory while the tool list was built.

Smaller correctness fixes across WooCommerce, ACF, and Rank Math, plus a wrong capability check on delete-revision, OAuth options left behind at uninstall, and a new readme FAQ for CDNs that block the agent at the edge.

lang:"all" measured a partial set of languages and reported success anyway. It now queries every configured WPML language for posts, pages, media, terms, search, and WooCommerce products, and the shared count helper sums across all of them.

A tool's visibility in tools/list could disagree with what its execute-time permission check actually allowed, both ways, hiding tools an agent could use and advertising ones it couldn't. Discovery is reconciled with execute-time permissions across custom post types, pages, and ACF term fields.

The RFC 9728 protected-resource-metadata route 404'd at the path agents actually request it at, breaking Claude connections for at least one user who reported it. It now resolves at the path-suffixed URL the spec calls for.

moderate-comment reported failure when a comment was already in the requested state (already approved, already spam, and so on), even though nothing was wrong. It reports success on a no-op now, and no longer logs one as an audit error.

Several code paths could short-circuit or reject a call before it finished, leaving a stuck or unreadable "started" row in the audit log rather than a real outcome, including on WordPress cores before 7.1. Every invocation now gets a unique token and closes out its row cleanly.

Bridged output from a third-party plugin's own ability could hide an unsafe object a level or two deep. The bridge now recurses into the result to find it, and refuses a bare or ambiguous object rather than assuming it's safe. Bridged output isn't redacted the way this plugin's own abilities' output is, and the readme now says so.

Media uploads now go through WordPress's own sideload handling and re-sanitize the resulting attachment's content, and the pixel-size cap that no longer matched that path is gone.

A batch of smaller correctness fixes across WooCommerce, ACF, AIOSEO, Rank Math, and Yoast: writes and reads route through each vendor's own functions instead of re-deriving their behavior, plus fixes to tool descriptions, cache invalidation, and a few pages that had the wrong discovery floor.

Uninstall now clears both daily cron events, not just the one tied to deleting data.

Sections on the Abilities tab now have an "Enable all writes" button beside "Enable all reads". It ticks the ordinary writes and leaves deletes and high-risk abilities alone.

The audit log records more. Permanent deletes name what they removed, and term meta, user meta and site settings updates name the keys they wrote. It logs names and identifiers, not the free text a call carried.

An authorize request in flight when you revoked a grant could still mint a code, and the token endpoint never re-checked consent, so that code redeemed into a working token after the screen said the revoke had succeeded. Consent is checked again at redemption.

Payment gateway settings returned camelCase credential keys in full and marked none of them redacted. Authorize.Net's apiLoginID and transactionKey are the real case.

Four ACF writes destroyed stored content and then reported failure: an unresolvable flexible content layout, clearing through a near-matching address, a protected-meta check that read the caller's address instead of ACF's, and a sub-field write landing under an undeclared name. All are refused before anything is written.

WooCommerce counted refunds as orders, so a store with six orders and three refunds reported nine. Variations were validated against a display filter rather than the parent product, a variation delete reported failure on success, and an order lookup that threw escaped its rollback.

Two refusals over MCP said "Permission denied" when that was not the problem. Setting alt text hit it because WordPress stores alt under a protected key, and the refusal now names aafm-update-media instead. A call missing a required argument hit it too, and now gets the schema error naming what is missing.

Invisible characters are stripped from text on its way into storage, covering WooCommerce, SEO and ACF fields, order addresses and stored post text. Permanent deletes stop offering recovery the site cannot deliver, and an ability declaring no risk is treated as a permanent delete. Plus smaller fixes across shipping zones, menu listings on WordPress 6.9, ACF container writes, the first-run wizard, and refusal messages that named the wrong cause.

Tested against WordPress 7.1. An accessibility pass over the admin screens covers keyboard operation, focus rings under forced colors, and proper names on toggles and table headers. OAuth housekeeping is sturdier, with InnoDB tables so token work rolls back and a cleanup cron that heals itself on subsites. A notice now asks for a wordpress.org review once the plugin has been carrying traffic for a while, and it can be dismissed for good. Vendor repository metadata no longer ships to wordpress.org.

Condensed the changelog so the full release history fits within the wordpress.org listing's length limit, in both readmes. Same releases, fewer lines, with the security and data-integrity fixes still called out one by one.

Corrected a code comment that slightly overstated when a consumer plugin's short-circuit is visible to the rate-limit release hook.

The admin activity log can filter on "Started", the state a crashed call leaves behind, matching what the activity-log ability already exposed.

Closed a privilege gap where editing a WooCommerce customer, or writing user meta or ACF user fields, needed only the manage-WooCommerce capability and could read or overwrite any account's details. These require a real user-editing capability now and sit behind the high-risk lock.

The rate limit on the OAuth endpoints never took effect on sites with no persistent object cache, which covers most shared hosting. It does now, and the per-user limit no longer counts each call twice.

Several WooCommerce writes reported success when nothing happened: deletes that removed nothing, order-status changes that failed to apply, and per-line refunds that quietly became full refunds. Each is confirmed or refused before it reports success now, and an invalid billing email no longer erases the stored address.

Bad values that used to be coerced silently are refused now: unparseable sales-report and coupon dates, non-numeric coupon amounts, negative limits, unknown tax classes (which had been filed under Standard and changed checkout tax), and a stock status set while stock management is on.

ACF repeater, group, and flexible-content writes saved their rows but reported a failure, so an agent would retry over content it had already published; and fields nested in flexible-content or clone layouts were sanitized as plain text, flattening rich text and letting a javascript: link through. Both are fixed, at any nesting depth.

Tightened what an agent can see and reach: an enabled admin-only tool could leak into a lower-privileged connection's tool list, an SEO head read could return for a post type the operator had not exposed, and a caller on a blocked IP could flood the activity log with denial rows.

Multisite activation creates the plugin's tables on every site now, including sites added later; deleting a user reports that they were only removed from the current site rather than fully deleted; and creating an agent user honours the network's add-new-users setting.

Corrected a run of tool descriptions and operator disclosures that overstated behaviour (what the activity log stores, how the ACF maps are keyed, count semantics, revision reversibility), and fixed a batch of smaller crash and response-shape defects across posts, blocks, comments, WPML, and SEO reads.

Cleared stale comments and dead test scaffolding, and brought the WooCommerce test stubs in line with what the real plugin does.

A new aafm_ability_resolved action fires when a call finishes, so an uptime monitor or a logging plugin can react to a failure instead of waiting for someone to open wp-admin.

The activity-log ability returns each entry's detail, so an agent can read why a call failed, not only that it did.

Empty category, tag, custom-field, gallery, settings, and user maps returned an array where the schema declares an object, so a strict MCP client rejected the whole response. Reported by an outside user as issue #81; the sweep it prompted fixed the same defect across the catalog.

Calling a bridged ability from another plugin with arguments could take the site down on 1.6.0, because the bridge rewrote the source plugin's schema into a shape WordPress core's validator cannot read. That rewrite is gone.

The activity log stored the raw text of an unexpected error, which for a plugin like WooCommerce often quotes the value that caused the failure, such as an email or a SKU. It records the error's type and location now, which cannot carry your data.

A permission check that failed unexpectedly returned the underlying error to the connected agent and could empty the entire tool list; it denies the call and records it now.

Shipping method reads returned WooCommerce's legacy global settings, empty for zone methods since WooCommerce 2.6, so a title or cost you just wrote did not show up; they report the real per-instance configuration now. A variation no longer claims it manages stock it inherits from its parent.

Coupon and product validation that used to crash or save a bad record returns a clean error now: a percentage coupon over 100 (including one raised past 100 by a later type change), a duplicate variation SKU, a negative amount, and a maximum below the minimum.

Corrected copy and a code comment: the two shipping-method reads and the consent screen note that a method carries its own per-instance settings, and the settings redactor is described as the best-effort denylist it is, not deny-by-default.

Read-only mode, a switch on the Settings tab that stops any ability that writes from registering as an MCP tool, whatever is ticked, and it covers abilities from other plugins too. Turning it on or off enables and disables nothing by itself, so your selections survive, and finishing Quick Connect without choosing write access turns it on rather than ticking boxes.

An "Enable all reads" button on the Abilities, Integrations, and Bridge tabs ticks every read ability in a section and leaves the writes alone.

The page header states the site's posture on every tab (read-only, read plus write, or read plus write with high-risk unlocked), worked out from what would actually register rather than the stored setting. Turning read-only mode on or off is recorded in the activity log.

A refund amount with surrounding whitespace is trimmed before the numeric check now, several lists that could sort differently on PHP 7.4 than on 8.x sort the same everywhere, and an ability from another plugin that returns an unexpected shape is caught and reported rather than failing further down.

The minimum PHP version is now 7.4, down from 8.0. The Settings tab is reorganised with Safety controls up front, the "Other plugins" tab has its own name and icon, and the listing leads with what the plugin gives you rather than the generic "for AI agents" framing.

Eight WooCommerce abilities that move money or grant authority (refunds, order status and updates, payment gateway settings, coupon and tax-rate creation and updates) are locked by default now behind a single audited master switch on the Settings tab.

The activity log records ability toggles and setting changes, not only calls, with a detail column that names what changed and links each identifier to its edit screen, and it can be exported as a CSV carrying the current filter.

A failed Application Password attempt against the MCP endpoint is logged now, and rate limited per source IP so a credential-stuffing run cannot flood the log.

Creating a WooCommerce customer requires the create-users capability now, and listing or reading one requires list-users, closing a gap that let a caller with only manage-WooCommerce read any user's email, address, and phone, administrators included. A stock Shop Manager is denied both where it was not before.

Payment gateway and shipping settings could return secrets under field names the redaction list missed, such as passphrase and salt, and deleting a product variation did not check the caller's capability on that specific product. Both are fixed.

A run of admin-log defects: an identifier could link to the wrong object, the Event and Detail columns could misalign after filtering, a large export could truncate while looking complete, and counts did not refresh until reload.

Clarified copy on what an Application Password grants, that uninstalling does not revoke access on its own, and that an OAuth grant's requested scope does not limit the token; the rate-limit setting notes it ships off with a suggested starting value.

Media reads handed the whole library to anyone who could upload a file or edit a post; an agent connected as an author sees only what it uploaded now, and the media count follows the same rule. Deleting a WooCommerce product checks whether that particular product was yours to delete.

A duplicate product SKU or coupon code returns a message naming the collision now instead of an uncaught error, and a bridged ability that answered with a bare list where the protocol asks for an object is always shaped as an object before it reaches the wire.

The OAuth 401 pointer compared the request path case-sensitively, so a differently-cased request got no pointer, and the authorization response left out the issuer RFC 9207 requires. Both are fixed, on error redirects too.

Tightened the build checks that guard these tools, including one that quietly passed any ability whose code it could not read.

Every input on every tool explains itself now, all 505 of them, where only three abilities were fully documented before.

Post status was ignored on create: "create a post as a draft" published it live and reported success. Create honours the status you ask for now, treats scheduling and private as publishing, and refuses a status your user cannot publish, on custom post types too.

Updating a WooCommerce order with line_items added items rather than changing them, quietly raising the total; there is a clear add_line_items field now, and a request mixing valid and invalid product ids is fully validated before anything is written. A product type that does not match the product returns an error instead of being discarded.

Added a build check that fails when any tool input goes undocumented, so this cannot drift back.

OAuth errors came back in WordPress's {code, message, data} shape instead of the {error, error_description} shape RFC 6749 requires, so no standard OAuth client could read them; reported as issue #68, and wrong since the first release. A malformed JSON body to an OAuth route escaped with the same wrong shape and no cache headers.

Responses that carry a credential were missing Pragma: no-cache next to Cache-Control: no-store, including the token response.

Calling a tool that does not exist or is switched off returned HTTP 404, which the MCP spec reserves for a dead session, so an ordinary mistake told the client to reconnect; it returns the right error now. The OAuth discovery document no longer advertises a client-registration endpoint when dynamic registration is off.

Every ability declares openWorldHint false now, which the MCP schema otherwise reads as "may reach the open internet", the opposite of what the plugin actually does.

Rate-limited OAuth responses send Retry-After now.

A first-run Quick Connect wizard gets a new admin connected on one screen: turn on OAuth and copy the endpoint, or create a dedicated agent user and generate an application password, then switch on content reads and, if you want, writes. A menu pointer greets a brand-new install and points to the plugin page.

The onboarding "Connect your agent" step and the "Agent users" count no longer read any application password as a connected agent; they track the agent users this plugin created or an approved OAuth connection, so an unrelated password stops showing a false "done" or padding the count.

Content reads (posts, pages, search, terms, media, products) take an optional language argument now and report which language they returned, and a single-item read can fetch a specific translation. Sites without WPML are unaffected.

On a WPML site the content lists returned only the default language while the counters reported every language; the counts match the returned language now, and the menu-item tools no longer report a false failure when WPML's language filter hides the new item from the re-read.

Added a real-WPML contract test and a guard that fails the build if a read-only ability ever starts writing.

WooCommerce abilities require WooCommerce 9.1 or newer now; below that they simply do not register, with a clear reason on the Integrations screen rather than a fatal error.

The activity log attributes each call to its OAuth client, shows a result count for list and read calls, and leaves a marker when the log is cleared.

A run of WooCommerce fixes: list-customers can filter by role so a customer on another role stays visible, order-note authorship is detected correctly, a payment gateway's real display order and saved values are reported, the refund executor no longer crashes on a gateway with no tax method, and product-attribute updates work across WooCommerce versions.

SEO and content fixes: the Rank Math and AIOSEO head and write-verification paths return a clear error or accept a benign normalization instead of a false failure, a term's parent must belong to the same taxonomy, count-media ignores the trash, upload-media fails clearly without the fileinfo extension, and update-site-settings reports failure when WordPress silently reverts a value.

Admin and OAuth fixes: abilities from an inactive integration survive a form save, the agent-user picker finds users past the first page, a filtered-out row is actually hidden, denied OAuth bearer attempts are logged, and the consent screen and code redirect are never cached.

Added a real-vendor contract test suite that runs against pinned WooCommerce, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and ACF code to catch API-shape regressions before release, and stopped shipping the mcp-adapter's Node package metadata in the zip.

The OAuth consent screen warns when the account approving a connection is an administrator, the settings screen warns before a REST API lockdown would cut off your OAuth connections, and the Abilities Bridge directory shows each bridged ability's effective permission.

New installs ship with OAuth off by default now, while sites that already had it on keep it, and a consent-grant phishing path that could get an administrator to approve a malicious client is closed.

Hardened governance: the MCP capability gate verifies the running adapter still applies its filter rather than trusting a text match, update-user requires edit_users, and a bridged ability with no destructive annotation is treated as destructive rather than assumed safe.

WooCommerce reads that failed on every real store are fixed: customer listing (it called a function WooCommerce does not have), empty shipping zones, ignored order paging on legacy storage, and product attributes dropped on create and wiped on update.

SEO and content fixes: Yoast's robots_noindex was inverted so an agent wrote the opposite of what it asked, Rank Math and AIOSEO social images render now because the plugin writes the attachment id, ACF numeric and boolean writes stopped reporting a false failure, a partial menu-item update no longer wipes untouched fields, and the page-publish check recognises custom public statuses.

The plugin's website link points to agentabilitieswp.com now instead of the GitHub repository.

Refreshed the documentation so the supported-client list matches what works: ChatGPT, Claude (the claude.ai web app and Claude Desktop), and Manus connect by URL over OAuth, while Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI connect from your own machine.

Added ChatGPT as a connection option and a single Claude entry that covers both the web app and Claude Desktop; hosted apps connect by URL over OAuth, so they no longer show the application-password steps, and Manus connects the same way.

Logged-out visitors could see "There has been a critical error" on every page when another active plugin checked the current user very early in the load (The Events Calendar is one example); the plugin waits until it has finished loading now.

The Settings screen saves the Enable OAuth, Dynamic Client Registration, and strict block-validation switches correctly now (they were being switched off on save), and there is no more white screen when the standalone MCP Adapter plugin is active alongside this one.

Tightened OAuth token scoping so an MCP access token can only authenticate the MCP endpoint and never another REST route, closed a rare condition that could exhaust memory during connection setup, and made publishing always require publish permission, including for custom public post statuses. Valid Cover and Media & Text blocks are no longer flagged as invalid.

Tightened the connection-snippet helpers.

AI agents that write pages, posts, or templates are now steered to keep block styling in the block attributes instead of inline CSS, the mistake that made blocks show "unexpected or invalid content" in the editor.

Block markup is checked before it is saved, and anything that would break in the editor is flagged back to the agent to fix on its next try.

A new strict option under Safety controls rejects a write outright when its block markup would be invalid, off by default so existing sites are unchanged.

Bridge abilities from your other plugins: any active plugin that registers abilities through the WordPress Abilities API can now be exposed as a governed MCP tool, opt-in per ability and off by default, on a new "Abilities from other plugins" screen grouped by the source plugin.

Turn a whole plugin's abilities on or off at once, with each source plugin's name shown in title case.

Bridged abilities run under the full governance layer: a capability re-check on every call, rate limiting, and the same audit log as the built-in catalog.

Added a WP-CLI catalog exporter, wp aafm catalog export, that lists a site's discoverable abilities as JSON.

Refreshed the branding with a new icon, banner, and a matching admin menu mark.

Added a WordPress Playground blueprint so the plugin page can offer a one-click live preview.

Initial release.

153 governed abilities: 83 across WordPress core (reads and guarded writes for posts, pages, terms, comments, media, users, post meta, revisions, blocks, templates, and site structure, plus a search that spans every post type) and 70 from auto-detected integrations for WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields, Yoast, Rank Math, and All in One SEO.

Built on the WordPress Abilities API and the official MCP Adapter, with no custom transport.

Connect over OAuth in the browser, or with a least-privilege Application Password user.

Everything off by default, with two-layer capability gating and per-connection tool filtering.

Optional safety controls: rate limit, IP allowlist, force-to-draft, and title-length cap.

Audit log that records every call, denied attempts included.

Guided connection screen with endpoint diagnostics.