Publishing to WordPress with Claude and the WordPress MCP Connector

Originally published at malcolmlow.com.

Several posts on this blog — including Word Embeddings Explained, SingIDBot, and the OpenClaw Telegram integration guide — were written, styled, and published entirely through Claude on claude.ai, using the WordPress MCP connector. This post documents exactly how that workflow operates, what problems arise, and how to resolve them.

The combination of Claude's HTML generation capability and the WordPress MCP connector creates a surprisingly smooth authoring pipeline, provided you know the constraints WordPress imposes on custom HTML blocks. Those constraints are the non-obvious part, and they are addressed in detail below.

1. Prerequisites

Requirement

Originally published at malcolmlow.com.

1. Prerequisites

Requirement

Publishing to WordPress with Claude and the WordPress MCP Connector

Publishing to WordPress with Claude and the WordPress MCP Connector

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