PressBridge

PressBridge Free

The WordPress MCP that still works when WordPress doesn't. Let Claude look inside your WordPress site safely: read-only, sandboxed, secrets hidden. Runs outside WordPress, so it works even when the site shows a critical error.

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you     On mysite, where is the footer phone number set? And show me the DB password.

claude  search "0744" in wp-content/themes  →  footer.php:41
        read_file wp-config.php             →  refused: blocked by deny rule 'wp-config*'

        The number is in wp-content/themes/mysite/footer.php, line 41.
        I can't read wp-config.php: PressBridge hides it so passwords never reach me.

PressBridge is an MCP server that gives Claude (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, any MCP client) controlled access to a WordPress site. The Free edition is read-only and made for one site: perfect for debugging, audits and "where is this text coming from?".

• Read, list and search theme and plugin files
• wp-config.php, .env, SQL dumps, keys and .git are invisible
• Nothing outside the site folder, symlink tricks included
• Read-only WP-CLI: versions, plugin and theme lists, checksums, cron, users
• WooCommerce, read-only: products, stock, prices, coupons, shipping and taxes (set wc_user in the config; orders and customers only if you turn them on)
• site_overview: version and pending updates in one call
• check_site_health: is the site up right now? Loads key pages and boots WordPress
• Includes the wp-care-report and wp-white-screen skills, also as a Claude Code plugin

Install (5 minutes, nothing exposed to the internet)

On the server:

sudo apt install python3-venv php-cli php-mysql
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
sudo install wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp
python3 -m venv ~/pressbridge-venv
~/pressbridge-venv/bin/pip install pressbridge
mkdir -p ~/.pressbridge
cat > ~/.pressbridge/config.yaml <<EOF
data_dir: $HOME/.pressbridge/data
sites:
  mysite:
    root: /var/www/mysite/public_html
EOF
~/pressbridge-venv/bin/pressbridge check --config ~/.pressbridge/config.yaml

Run it as the user that owns the site files (or one that can read them).

On your computer, Claude Code:

claude mcp add pressbridge -- ssh you@server \
  /home/you/pressbridge-venv/bin/pressbridge serve --config /home/you/.pressbridge/config.yaml

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json, Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pressbridge": {
      "command": "ssh",
      "args": ["-o", "BatchMode=yes", "you@server",
               "/home/you/pressbridge-venv/bin/pressbridge", "serve",
               "--config", "/home/you/.pressbridge/config.yaml"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code plugin: skills and setup help

PressBridge is also a Claude Code plugin with the wp-white-screen skill (finds why a site shows "There has been a critical error" and gives the exact fix), the wp-care-report skill and a /pressbridge-setup command that walks you through the install:

/plugin marketplace add pressbridgesupport/pressbridge
/plugin install pressbridge@pressbridge

The plugin adds the skills; the MCP server itself still runs where the site files are, as above. With uv you can skip the virtualenv and run uvx pressbridge serve --config ~/.pressbridge/config.yaml.

Then ask Claude: "Give me a health overview of mysite" or "Where in the theme is the footer phone number set?"

The full user guide, with every command, config option and tool, is in GUIDE.md (features marked Pro aren't in this edition).

Want Claude to fix things too?

PressBridge Pro adds editing with automatic backups and one-call undo, a check after every change that rolls it back automatically if it broke the site, PHP syntax checks before saving, plugin/theme/core updates, unlimited sites, a remote HTTPS server with Docker and automatic certificates, the audit log, and skills for safe edits and safe updates.

→ https://pressbridgesupport.github.io/pressbridge

License

MIT. See LICENSE.