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What Is Saddle?
Saddle turns your WordPress site into something an AI assistant can actually work in. It runs an MCP server — a defined, permissioned endpoint — inside your own install, so apps like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot can read your site, write posts and pages, build layouts, and manage media, all under controls you set in the WordPress dashboard.
Nothing is relayed through anyone else’s server. There is no PlugPress middleman: your site is the server, and the AI app connects straight to it.
What can a connected AI actually do?
The free plugin exposes 61 tools. Broadly:
| Area | What it covers | Access level |
|---|---|---|
| Content | Posts, pages, media, categories, tags, search, revisions | Read / Write |
| Page design | Real Gutenberg blocks, your theme’s design tokens and patterns, section recipes | Read / Write |
| Quality checks | Design lint, page verification with a scored report, preview URLs | Read |
| Site management | Plugins, themes, settings, cache | Managing the site |
| Guidance & memory | Your standing instructions, installable Skills, facts it should remember | Read / Write |
| Images | Unsplash search and import, with your own free API key | Read / Write |
| Other plugins | Tools from plugins that connect to Saddle, such as Waggle for SEO | Varies |
The Permissions screen in your dashboard is always the authoritative list for your site — it shows exactly what’s available and lets you switch off anything you don’t want.
What can’t a connected AI do?
- Nothing, by default. New installs are set to Just reading. An AI can look, and change nothing, until you decide otherwise.
- Nothing destructive in one step. Every deletion or overwrite returns a preview and a single-use confirmation token first. See Safe deletions.
- No arbitrary code. There is no tool for running PHP, shell commands, or WP-CLI. Not at any access level, not as a power-user option. Every capability is a specific, named, gated tool.
- Nothing you’ve switched off. Any individual tool can be disabled, and one master switch pauses everything at once.
What is MCP, and why does it matter here?
MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is the open standard AI apps use to connect to outside tools and data. Instead of copying content back and forth, or handing an assistant your admin password, MCP gives it a defined set of capabilities that the other side controls.
That last part is what makes it a good fit for WordPress. Your site decides what exists, what’s allowed, and what gets logged. Saddle implements MCP natively inside WordPress, so the permission model is WordPress’s own — the keys are standard Application Passwords, revocable from your profile like any other.
Which AI apps work with Saddle?
Any app that speaks MCP over HTTP. Saddle’s connect wizard writes ready-made setup for seven:
| App | Kind | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Claude | Desktop app | Connect Claude |
| ChatGPT | Web + desktop | Connect ChatGPT |
| Claude Code | Terminal | Connect Claude Code |
| Cursor | Code editor | Connect Cursor |
| VS Code | Copilot agent mode | Connect VS Code |
| Gemini CLI | Terminal | Connect Gemini CLI |
| Anything else | Any MCP client | Connect any MCP app |
Most apps sign in with a key you paste into a header. ChatGPT can’t do that — its connector screen has no field for one — so Saddle includes an optional OAuth sign-in service that runs inside your own site. It’s off by default.
What does it look like in the dashboard?
Do I need Saddle Pro?
Only if your site is built with Divi 5. The free plugin is complete on its own — nothing in it is locked or limited, and it handles Gutenberg block layouts natively. Saddle Pro adds 47 Divi-native tools so an AI can build real Divi pages that stay editable in the Visual Builder.
FAQ
Does my content go to PlugPress, or to an AI company?
Never to PlugPress — Saddle makes no outbound calls to any server we run. Your content does reach the AI app you connected, exactly as it would if you pasted it into a chat: that’s the point of connecting. The difference is that you choose which app, and you can revoke it in one click.
Is this the same as giving an AI my admin login?
No, and that’s the main reason to use it. An admin login grants everything, forever, invisibly. A Saddle connection grants a specific set of tools at a level you choose, logs every change, previews every deletion, and can be revoked without touching your password.
Do I need to know anything technical?
No. The connect wizard writes the setup for you and you paste it into your app. Nothing needs editing by hand.
What does it cost?
The free plugin is free, and complete. Pro is a paid add-on for Divi sites.
Which WordPress version do I need?
WordPress 6.9 or later and PHP 7.4 or later. Your site should also be on HTTPS — WordPress disables the sign-in keys Saddle uses on plain HTTP.