WordPress 7.0 is set to be released on April 9th, with native support for AI Agent integration on 43% of websites worldwide

According to 1M AI News monitoring, WordPress 7.0 is scheduled to be released on April 9, with one of the key changes being the inclusion of the MCP (Model Context Protocol) adapter in the core. This change enables any WordPress site to act as an MCP server, allowing AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT to discover functionality, understand structure, and perform actions directly within the site.

Specifically, in 7.0, three components are introduced at the AI infrastructure level:

1. AI Connectors: Unify management of AI service API keys in the settings panel, with initial support for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. All plugins share the same set of credentials instead of storing them individually.
2. Abilities API: Introduced in version 6.9 and expanded in 7.0, this is a capability registration interface where plugins can declare their functionalities in an AI-understandable format (such as fetching posts, updating pages, running site health checks) with standardized input and output.
3. MCP Adapter: Exposes all registered Abilities via the MCP protocol to external AI agents, allowing agents to automatically discover site capabilities and invoke them with user authorization.

WordPress.com was the first to roll out MCP write permissions on March 20, covering 19 write operations across 6 content types (such as editing content, managing comments, creating pages, uploading media, adjusting categories and tags, etc). All operations require explicit user confirmation before execution, new content defaults to draft status, and deleted content goes to the trash, remaining there for 30 days. WordPress.com also enables OAuth 2.1 authentication by default, where AI clients only use time-bound tokens and do not handle user credentials.

WordPress powers approximately 43% of the web globally. The inclusion of MCP support in the core means that these sites will have standardized AI agent integration capabilities, similar to how the entry of the REST API into the core in 2016 catalyzed the headless WordPress and modern theme development ecosystem.