How to connect WordPress to Cursor

1. 1. Enable WordPress in Metorial

   In your Metorial portal, enable the WordPress MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.

2. 2. Add Metorial to your MCP config

   Use ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, or .cursor/mcp.json for one.

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   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "metorial": {
         "url": "<your-magic-mcp-url>"
       }
     }
   }

3. 3. Sign in

   Open Customize in the sidebar, find Metorial and sign in to load WordPress tools.

• Update Post: Update an existing blog post.
• List Users: Retrieve a list of users on the WordPress site.
• List Pages: Retrieve a list of pages with optional filtering by status, search term, and sorting.
• Create Page: Create a new page on the WordPress site.
• Get Site Stats: Retrieve site traffic statistics including page views, visitors, and top posts.
• Delete Page: Permanently delete a page by its ID.
• Update Media: Update metadata of an existing media item including title, caption, alt text, and description.
• Get Post: Retrieve a single blog post by its ID, including full content, metadata, and comment count.
• Moderate Comment: Moderate a comment by updating its status (approve, hold for moderation, spam, or trash) or editing its content.
• Delete Post: Permanently delete a blog post by its ID.
• List Media: Browse the site's media library.
• List Tags: Retrieve all tags on the site.
• Get Media: Retrieve details of a single media item by its ID, including URL, dimensions, caption, and alt text.
• Update Page: Update an existing page.
• Create Post: Create a new blog post on the WordPress site.
• And 22 more on the WordPress MCP server page.

• Cursor picks MCP tools automatically when they are relevant, including in Plan Mode. Name a WordPress tool to steer it.
• Cursor asks for approval before it uses an MCP tool by default. Click the arrow next to the tool name to check the arguments first.
• Switch the Metorial server off from Customize in the sidebar without removing it.
• Cursor shows each WordPress tool response in chat, with expandable views of the arguments and the result.

Metorial connects but tools are missing or failing

Open the Output panel (Cmd+Shift+U), choose MCP Logs, and look for authentication or connection errors.

Your company blocks the server

Enterprise admins approve remote servers in Team Settings, then MCP Configuration. Ask them to add a URL entry for your Metorial URL.

Cursor asks before every tool call

That is the default. Allowlist the Metorial tools you trust in your Run Mode settings to run them without a prompt.

Based on the Cursor MCP documentation.