If you have ever asked Claude to help with WordPress, you know the routine. You describe the problem, Claude writes some code without seeing your actual site, you paste it into WordPress, test it, and half the time something breaks because the AI was guessing about your theme and setup the whole time.
Connecting Claude directly to your site ends that. Once connected, Claude can read your files, edit your theme, create pages, and manage content from inside the same chat window, working on your real site instead of a hypothetical one. This guide walks through the setup step by step. It takes about five minutes.
Prefer to watch instead of read? Here is the full setup as a video walkthrough:
What you need before you start
This setup assumes a few things are in place. None of them take long:






