Description
Uncanny Automator connects Claude or ChatGPT to your WordPress site. It is an MCP server for WordPress with a built-in automation engine: your AI manages the site and acts across your plugins and apps, and any task it does once can become a recipe, an automation that keeps running without it.
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity or any AI app that supports remote MCP servers, and run your site in plain English. Uncanny Automator connects your AI to thousands of plugin abilities, plus 470+ actions built into Uncanny Automator. Build and update pages in Gutenberg, Spectra, Elementor, Divi or WPBakery, keep plugins and themes up to date, and turn any task into a workflow you can view, edit and audit.
Trusted by 40,000+ active sites with a 4.9/5 rating and 2,000,000+ downloads. Automating WordPress since 2018.
Connect Claude or ChatGPT in 60 seconds
An MCP server is how AI apps such as ChatGPT or Claude connect to other software. Uncanny Automator includes the MCP server for your site, so the AI you already use can manage it.
Install the plugin, create your free account, and sign in. One connection manages every site you link. Free forever for 150 tool uses per day (300 per day in the first seven days after you connect your AI).
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and more to WordPress
Create your free Uncanny Automator Lite account, connect your site and choose your AI app. From then on, Claude or ChatGPT can read your site, analyze your data, publish drafts, update orders and automate your workflows through ordinary conversation.
Any AI app that supports remote MCP servers connects the same way, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Once connected, ask Claude or ChatGPT how to get started.
The most capable WordPress MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT
Unlike other MCP server plugins, Uncanny Automator has been helping users automate WordPress since 2018.
We built an MCP server into Uncanny Automator before any of the other WordPress MCP server plugins existed, back in December of 2025, and we used it to power Uncanny Agent, our built-in AI agent.
In that time, we learned a lot about building a good MCP server, like utilizing the most secure connections (no application passwords here!), the optimal number of MCP tools for an agent to manage, and how to build effective MCP skills. Now, we’ve opened up the best MCP server on WordPress and made it available to everyone to connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and more.
Any MCP server on its own lets an AI manage your site in chat. In Uncanny Automator, the MCP server sits on top of a full automation plugin, so Claude or ChatGPT can do a task today and turn it into an automation that repeats it tomorrow.
Ask in plain English, for example “when someone buys a course, add them to my CRM”, and it builds the automation through the MCP server as a recipe you can view and edit. The automation runs on your site, so it keeps working after you close ChatGPT or Claude. Any other AI app that supports remote MCP servers connects the same way.
What Claude or ChatGPT can do on your site
- Run your site in plain English: create and edit posts and pages, manage users, comments, menus, settings and more. “Create a page for our spring sale.” “Give Maria the Editor role and email her the login.”
- Get answers instead of dashboards: “How are my sales trending month over month and year over year?” “Who enrolled this week and hasn’t started?” “What changed since Monday?”
- Act across your plugins and apps: enroll a learner, tag a contact in Mailchimp, create a Stripe invoice, post to Slack, publish to Instagram. Any AI connected through Uncanny Automator gains access to an exclusive library of 470+ actions across 144 plugins and apps that no other MCP server offers, plus the thousands of abilities your other plugins register with WordPress. Pro adds hundreds more.
- Skills for the plugins you run. Skills are step-by-step guidance your AI loads for a specific plugin or task. Uncanny Automator ships 200+ of them, including guides for WooCommerce, LearnDash, WPCode, Tutor LMS, WPForms, FluentCRM, BuddyBoss and much more, so your AI already knows how to work with the plugins you run.
- Keep the site up to date: update, install, activate and deactivate plugins and themes from WordPress.org, moderate comments, flush caches, run cron events and switch maintenance mode, from chat.
- Build and update pages in the page builder you already use: Gutenberg, Spectra, Elementor, Divi or WPBakery. No page builder? Uncanny Page Builder is built in: fast, light and AI-native. On a block theme, Claude or ChatGPT can build the whole site in the Site Editor: pages, headers, footers, navigation, templates and global styles.
- Turn any task into a recipe: build automated workflows with AI, powered by the only MCP server with a built-in automation engine (see below).
- Use the abilities your other plugins register through the WordPress Abilities API, each with its own switch.
- Diagnose problems in your site’s code or build custom functionality: your AI can inspect code and files and verify WordPress core against the official checksums. It doesn’t change files and never opens wp-config.php, keys or backups.
- Upload media from inside the AI app. Pick a file in ChatGPT or Claude and it lands in your Media Library.
Prompts to try:
- “Publish the draft about the fall sale, add it to the News category, and post the link to #marketing in Slack.”
- “Update every plugin and tell me what changed.”
- “What can I automate on my site to save time?”
- “Every Monday at 8am, email me a summary of last week’s orders.”
Automations that keep working after the chat ends
Any WordPress MCP server lets Claude or ChatGPT manage your site in chat. Only Uncanny Automator has a built-in automation engine, so your AI can also build recipes: deterministic automations with triggers, conditions and actions that run the same way every time, which you can open in the visual builder, edit, and audit in the log. Unlimited automations included: end the pay-per use Zapier subscription.
- Built with AI. Describe what should happen and Claude or ChatGPT writes the recipe: triggers, actions, conditions, delays, schedules and loops. Open it in the visual builder and change anything.
- Runs without it. Published recipes run on events and schedules with no chat and no AI in the loop. Every run is logged.
- AI steps. Put a model inside a recipe to summarise, draft, translate, classify, analyse sentiment or write SEO titles and descriptions.
Recipes people build:
- A form is submitted an AI step classifies it a complaint opens a Fluent Support ticket and alerts the team; anything else is tagged in Mailchimp with an AI-drafted reply.
- Order completed wait three days only if it hasn’t been refunded an AI step writes a personal note about the product send it.
- Every Monday pull last week’s orders an AI step summarises revenue and top products email you and post to Slack.
Prefer not to use AI at all? The drag-and-drop recipe builder is there, no code required.
No AI subscription?
Uncanny Agent is built into the plugin for people who don’t have an AI subscription, or would rather not connect one. Open it from your dashboard and start chatting: no AI account, no keys, nothing to set up. It does the same things a connected AI does, checks with you before important actions, and is free to start.
Stay in control
- You approve every connection yourself, as a WordPress administrator. Your AI works on the site as that account and can never do more than you let it.
- A switch for everything: every tool, integration, single action and ability, plus one switch each for database access, site management and code and file reading. No AI app can change them.
- Some things are never available to any AI: raw database changes and deleting users. No shell. No file writes.
- Connect every site once. Every AI app you approve can work on your connected sites, and new sites join automatically. Your AI’s requests reach your site over an encrypted connection.
- See every call your AI made: which app, which site, what it did and the outcome.
What you get free
- Manage your site with AI for free, forever: 150 tool uses a day (300 in your first week) with a connected AI, on unlimited sites.
- Unlimited recipes between the plugins on your site, with hundreds of triggers and actions.
- 250 app actions to try apps like Google Sheets, Slack and Mailchimp.
- Every tool, every plugin ability and all 200+ skills.
- Build and update pages in Gutenberg, Spectra, Elementor, Divi or WPBakery. No page builder? Try Uncanny Page Builder, built in: light and AI-native, with clean HTML and CSS that loads fast.
Create a free account and connect your AI in 60 seconds. No credit card required.
Upgrade to Uncanny Automator Pro
- Everything your AI can do, with unlimited tool usage for a connected AI.
- Pro triggers, actions and tokens: the complete library, 850+ actions across 250 integrations.
- Advanced workflow logic: delays, schedules, conditions, loops, data tools, incoming webhooks and run-on-demand.
- Unlimited app actions. No per-task fees.
- Higher plans add more sites and addons: multisite, Custom User Fields, User Lists, Restrict Content, Dynamic Content, and Elite Integrations like Salesforce and QuickBooks Online.
See https://automatorplugin.com/pricing/ for details.
Who it’s for
- Site owners and WordPress beginners who already use ChatGPT or Claude and want it to manage the site, not just talk about it.
- eCommerce, eLearning and membership operators automating the customer lifecycle across WooCommerce, LearnDash, MemberPress and the rest.
- Developers and agencies who want to manage client sites with AI and have control over what each AI can touch on every client site, who would also rather maintain recipes than custom glue code.
Praise for Uncanny Automator
- “Uncanny Automator stands out in its ease of use, configurability and flexibility. With Uncanny Automator, we pretty much stopped using Zapier.” — Jing
- “I’ve been testing and building automation solutions for clients over the past 10 years. Once I found Uncanny Automator, I stopped looking for other software.” — Adam C
- “I tried 3 or 4 automator plugins before I decided on Uncanny. Boy did I make the right choice, as the support I’ve received has been exceptional.” — Noel A
External services
- mcp.automatorplugin.com, the hosted connection service: your AI connects to it, and it relays your AI’s requests to your site over an encrypted connection. The service keeps a record of each request and result for 90 days, with credentials removed, and stores connection tokens encrypted; it never receives your WordPress password. What the connection keeps: https://automatorplugin.com/privacy-policy/
- The Automator Platform, the hosted service behind app integrations (Google Sheets, Slack, Mailchimp and other cloud apps): one-click setup, error handling, rate limiting and encrypted credential storage, used only for the app actions you set up.
- Uncanny Agent runs on managed AI models when you use it. Terms: https://automatorplugin.com/terms-conditions/
Connect everything on your WordPress site
Uncanny Automator connects the most popular WordPress plugins and apps. Mix and match any of them in a recipe, and your AI can manage them too. Here’s the complete list.
Apps & external services:
ActiveCampaign,
Anthropic,
Asana,
AWeber,
Bitly,
Bluesky,
Brevo,
Campaign Monitor,
ClickUp,
Cohere,
Constant Contact,
Discord,
Drip,
Dropbox,
Facebook Lead Ads,
Facebook Pages,
GetResponse,
GitHub,
Google Calendar,
Google Contacts,
Google Gemini,
Google Sheets,
GoTo Meeting,
GoTo Training,
GoTo Webinar,
Help Scout,
HubSpot,
Instagram,
Keap,
Kit,
LinkedIn Pages,
Mailchimp,
MailerLite,
Mautic,
Microsoft Teams,
Mistral AI,
Notion,
Ontraport,
OpenAI,
Perplexity,
QuickBooks Online,
Salesforce,
Sendy,
Slack,
Stripe,
Telegram,
Threads,
Trello,
Twilio,
WhatsApp,
X/Twitter,
xAI,
Zoho Campaigns,
Zoom Meetings,
Zoom Webinars
WordPress plugins:
AcyMailing,
Advanced Ads,
Advanced Coupons,
Advanced Custom Fields,
AffiliateWP,
Airtable,
All in One SEO,
All-in-One WP Migration,
Amelia,
ARMember,
Automator Core,
Automator for PayPal,
BadgeOS,
bbPress,
Beaver Builder,
Bricks Builder,
BuddyBoss,
BuddyPress,
Caldera Forms,
CartFlows,
Charitable,
Cloudflare,
Cloudways,
Code Snippets,
Contact Form 7,
CSV,
Custom Action,
Custom User Fields,
Database Query,
Date and Time,
Divi,
Duplicator,
Dynamic Content,
Easy Affiliate,
Easy Digital Downloads,
Easy WP SMTP,
EDD – Recurring Payments,
EDD – Software Licensing,
Elementor Pro,
Emails,
Eventin,
Events Manager,
Everest Forms,
ExactMetrics,
Fluent Forms,
Fluent Support,
FluentBoards,
FluentBooking,
FluentCart,
FluentCommunity,
FluentCRM,
Formatter,
Formidable Forms,
Forminator,
FunnelKit Automations,
GamiPress,
Generator,
GiveWP,
Google Sheets Web App,
Gravity Forms,
GravityKit,
Groundhogg,
H5P,
HappyForms,
Heroic Knowledge Base,
IFTTT,
Integrately,
Integromat,
JetEngine,
JetFormBuilder,
Jetpack CRM,
JSON,
Kadence,
Kinsta,
KonnectzIT,
LearnDash,
LearnDash Achievements,
LearnPress,
LifterLMS,
LiteSpeed Cache,
Logging,
Loginizer,
Loop,
Magic Button,
MailPoet,
Mailster,
Make,
MasterStudy LMS,
Memberium for Keap,
MemberMouse,
MemberPress,
MemberPress Courses,
Meta Box,
Modern Events Calendar,
MonsterInsights,
myCred,
Newsletter,
Ninja Forms,
OptinMonster,
Pabbly Connect,
Paid Memberships Pro,
PeepSo,
Plugin Actions,
Popup Maker,
Post SMTP,
PressPrimer Assignment,
PressPrimer Quiz,
Presto Player,
PrettyLinks,
QR Code,
Quiz Maker by AYS,
RafflePress,
Rank Math SEO,
Really Simple Security,
Redirection,
Restrict Content,
Restrict Content Pro,
RSS feed,
Run Code,
Run now,
SaveTo Wishlist,
Schedule,
Security Optimizer,
SeedProd,
Site Kit by Google,
SliceWP,
Smush,
Speed Optimizer,
Studiocart,
Sucuri Security,
Sugar Calendar,
SureCart,
SureForms,
SureMembers,
The Events Calendar,
Thrive Apprentice,
Thrive Architect,
Thrive Leads,
Thrive Ovation,
Thrive Quiz Builder,
Thrive Theme Builder,
Thrive Ultimatum,
ThriveCart,
Tin Canny Reporting,
Tutor LMS,
Typeform,
Ultimate Member,
Uncanny Codes,
Uncanny Continuing Education Credits,
Uncanny Groups,
Uncanny Toolkit,
Upsell Plugin,
URL,
User Lists,
UserFeedback,
W3 Total Cache,
Webhooks,
Wholesale Suite,
Wishlist Member,
WooCommerce,
Woo Bookings,
Woo Memberships,
Woo ShipStation,
Woo Subscriptions,
Wordfence Security,
WordPress Core,
WordPress Download Manager,
WordPress Multisite,
WP Activity Log,
WP Admin,
WP All Import,
WP Courseware,
WP Event Manager,
WP Fastest Cache,
WP Fusion,
WP Fusion Lite,
WP Job Manager,
WP LMS,
WP Mail SMTP Pro,
WP Rocket,
WP Simple Pay,
WP Super Cache,
WP ULike,
WP User Manager,
WP Webhooks,
WP-Polls,
WPCafe,
WPCode,
wpDiscuz,
WPForms,
wpForo,
WPsigner,
WS Form,
XML,
Yoast SEO,
Zapier,
Zoomy
Built-in capabilities: send data anywhere with unlimited outgoing webhooks, send emails, and automate WordPress core functions — all free. Pro adds incoming webhooks, database queries, advanced actions for developers, importing CSV / RSS / JSON / XML, schedules and delays, loops (running bulk actions on users, posts and more), QR codes, data formatting, and thousands of additional triggers, actions and tokens.
Don’t see what you need? Connect to virtually any plugin with custom triggers and actions, or any app with robust webhook support.
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FAQ
What is Uncanny Automator?
It connects your AI to your WordPress site. Uncanny Automator is an MCP server for WordPress with a built-in automation engine: your AI manages the site and acts across your plugins and apps, and any task can become a recipe, a deterministic automation that runs without AI.
Is this a WordPress MCP server?
Yes. An MCP server is how AI apps such as ChatGPT or Claude connect to other software. Uncanny Automator is an MCP server for WordPress with a built-in automation engine: it connects your AI to your WordPress site, so you can manage and automate the site with your AI. It runs the abilities other plugins register through the WordPress Abilities API, and it registers Automator’s own operations as abilities.
Do I need an AI subscription?
No. Most people connect the AI they already pay for (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity or any AI app that supports remote MCP servers). If you don’t have one, Uncanny Agent is built into the plugin: it does the same things with nothing to set up, and it is free to start.
Is there a limit when I connect my own AI?
Paid plans have unlimited tool usage. Lite includes 150 tool uses a day, shared across all the sites on your account, boosted to 300 a day for your first week after you connect, and the count resets every morning at 6:00 AM Eastern time. A tool use is one thing your AI does on your site through Uncanny Automator: ask it to publish a draft, add a customer to a course or post a message about the spring sale to Instagram, and it uses the right tool for the job. A bigger request can take several, because your AI may look a few things up first. Details: https://automatorplugin.com/knowledge-base/tool-uses-and-the-daily-limit/
Do my recipes need an AI to run?
No. Once published, a recipe runs on its own triggers and schedules. AI is only involved when you ask it to build or change a recipe, or when you add an AI step to one.
How do AI steps inside recipes work?
An AI step is an action in a recipe, like any other. Add it, choose the provider (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Mistral or Cohere) with your own API key, and write the prompt. The step’s output becomes a token the next step can use: an email, a post, a Slack message or a Google Sheets row.
How does the connection work?
Your AI connects to mcp.automatorplugin.com, which handles sign-in and one-click setup and relays your AI’s requests to your site over an encrypted connection. Your content lives on your WordPress site. The service keeps a record of each request and result for 90 days, with credentials removed, and stores connection tokens encrypted; it never receives your WordPress password. External apps connect through the Automator Platform, which handles the credentials. What the connection keeps: https://automatorplugin.com/privacy-policy/
Can I control what the AI is allowed to do?
Yes. You approve every connection as an administrator, and your AI works as that account. Switch off any tool, integration, single action or ability for every connected AI, with one switch each for database access, site management and code and file reading; no AI app can change the switches. Some things are never available to any AI: raw database changes and deleting users. No shell. No file writes. And you can see every call your AI made: which app, which site, what it did and the outcome.
Which AI apps work?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and any AI app that supports remote MCP servers.
Does it work with my page builder?
Yes. Your AI builds and edits pages in Gutenberg, Spectra, Elementor, Divi and WPBakery. On a block theme it can build the whole site in the Site Editor. No page builder? Uncanny Page Builder is built in: fast, light and AI-native.
Can my AI update my plugins?
Yes, if you enable that access. It can update, install, activate and deactivate plugins and themes from WordPress.org, moderate comments, flush caches, run cron events and switch maintenance mode, from chat. Nothing is ever deleted or uninstalled, WordPress core is never touched, and updates run one at a time.
Can my AI read my site’s code?
Yes, read-only, if you allow it. Your AI can inspect your site’s code and files to diagnose a problem, and verify WordPress core against the official checksums. It can never change a file, it never opens wp-config.php, keys or backups, and you choose what else it may never open.
What is a skill?
Skills are step-by-step guidance your AI loads for a specific plugin or task. Uncanny Automator ships 200+ of them, including guides for WooCommerce, LearnDash, WPCode, Tutor LMS, WPForms, FluentCRM, BuddyBoss and much more, so your AI already knows how to work with the plugins you run.
Is Uncanny Automator a Zapier alternative?
Yes. Recipes do what Zapier and Make do, natively inside WordPress, with deeper integrations and no per-task fees, and your AI can build them for you.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. Managing your site, building recipes and building pages are all done in plain language or in a visual builder.
What does Pro add?
Unlimited tool usage for a connected AI, the complete library of Pro triggers, actions and tokens, advanced workflow logic (delays, schedules, conditions, loops, data tools, incoming webhooks), unlimited app actions, and, on higher plans, more sites and addons. See https://automatorplugin.com/pricing/.
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Changelog
8.0.3 [2026-11-09]
Updated:
- Recipe Builder – The WordPress admin menu now retains the user’s preferred expanded or collapsed state. #9437
Fixed:
- Connect Your AI – Fixed Claude/MCP connection errors on sites using the JWT Authentication for WP-API plugin. #9416
- Connect buttons now show a loading state and prevent duplicate connection requests. #9414
- Core – Fixed PHP errors when REST API requests contain invalid rest_route values. #9419
- Recipe Logs – Filter conditions now display their individual results instead of the overall filter result. #9338
- Recipe Logs – Fixed missing filter conditions and incorrect Skipped statuses for runs recorded in 7.x. #9442
- Recipe Logs – Fixed missing filter conditions inside loops for runs recorded in 7.x. #9444
- Redirect – Redirect to a URL – Multiple redirects in the same recipe run now display the correct notice when a previous redirect has already occurred. #9430
- Site Commands – Fixed compatibility with object cache plugins such as APCu Manager that previously blocked site commands. #9423
- Template Library – Magic button and magic link templates now show placeholder shortcodes instead of IDs from another site. #9433
- Template Library – Templates now correctly include integrations used inside loops and action conditions in requirements, filters and Ready to use results. #9435
- The Events Calendar – Create an RSVP attendee for an event – Added support for the new RSVP format introduced in Event Tickets v5.30+. #9421
- WooCommerce – Stripe fee and payout tokens – Fixed compatibility with WooCommerce Stripe Gateway 10.7 and later.
- WooCommerce Bookings – Fixed trigger errors caused by changes in WooCommerce Stripe Gateway 10.7. #9407
8.0.2 [2026-11-05]
Fixed:
- BuddyBoss – A user creates a topic in a forum – Fixed recipe builder errors when the Forums component is disabled. #9382
- Core – Fixed recipe runs stopping unexpectedly when some triggers return user IDs as text instead of numbers. #9399
- Core – Fixed the Trigger title token displaying field labels, extra braces or “Unknown token” instead of the correct trigger sentence. #9384
- Recipe Builder – Added a Resolve dependencies dialog for triggers and actions with missing requirements. #9401
- Recipe Builder – Fixed the missing remove button icon for selected files in file fields. #9402
- Recipe Logs – Nested tokens now display their resolved values instead of raw tokens or “Unknown token”. #9386
8.0.1 [2026-11-04]
Fixes and improvements:
- Recipe Builder – The Filter block is now indigo instead of pink, so it is no longer mistaken for a failed block. #9371
- Connect your AI – Loops accept every valid loopable token, and the user selector and trigger schema guidance no longer mislead AI. #9347
- Connect your AI – Error responses are now accurate, and run logs show the full actions flow. #9346 #9348
- Connect your AI – Abilities from LifterLMS, WooCommerce and other plugins now run through run_ability instead of failing with an MCP OAuth token error. #9377
- Connect Apps – Sites without an active license or connected account now go to the Dashboard instead of the License screen. #9351
- Database – Sites whose options tables use different collations no longer get a database error on every page load. #9343
- Licensing – Pro triggers and actions no longer show as Locked when the license check fails after the cache expires. #9332
- Migrations – Actions that shared a position now keep their original run order when a condition group migrates to a filter. #9342
- Recipe Builder – A Loop’s token list is no longer saved to the trigger log multiple times when a recipe is loaded and run in the same request. #9356
- Recipe Builder – Actions placed where they are not allowed now return a clear rule error. #9349
- Recipe Builder – One invalid email “To” address no longer blocks later emails. #9349
- Recipe Builder – The token button is back on “Use a token/custom value” fields for dropdowns such as MailPoet’s Subscriber Status. #9352
- Recipe Logs – Failed actions now show their error under Notes in Logs > Action again. #9359
- Recipe Logs – A Loop block shows its configuration, and a Queue block after a background action shows Delayed. #9350 #9354
- Recipe Logs – Reading the next run ID no longer changes database settings for the rest of the request. #9348
- Recipe Logs – Searching the run log now finds failed actions’ errors and token loop iterations. #9359 #9339
- Recipe Logs – The run log screen no longer crashes when a Filter block has no conditions. #9331
- Recipe Runs – Recipes set to run on all triggers no longer wait forever for a Pro trigger while Pro is inactive. #9344
- Uncanny Agent – A valid token without the required capability now gets a permission error instead of an invalid credentials error. #9284
- Uncanny Page Builder – Published full pages now load other plugins’ scripts and styles, so forms such as WP Simple Pay work again. #9379
- Webhooks – Send data to a webhook – A new Authorization header is no longer left in clear text when saving the action fails. #9353
- Webhooks – Send data to a webhook – Failed responses no longer offer response tokens, and webhooks saved by Pro 1.x to 2.1 no longer write PHP warnings. #9357
- Webhooks – Send data to a webhook – Form-data, GET, GraphQL and Raw webhooks now send correct requests. #9355
- Webhooks – Send data to a webhook – The Send webhook test now passes any successful response, fails error responses and keeps the saved tokens. #9358
- Webhooks – Send data to a webhook – XML webhooks now send application/xml, and a broken XML wrapper fails the action. #9357 #9358
- WordPress – Post triggers no longer list the “Post categories (loop)” and “Post tags (loop)” tokens that returned empty values. #9345
8.0.0 [2026-11-02]
Major release: Uncanny Automator 8.0 is a major release. Test the update on a staging site first, and if you have Uncanny Automator Pro, update it to 8.0 at the same time.
New Feature:
- Connect your AI – Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and more to manage and automate your WordPress site via a built-in MCP server
- Connect your AI – New MCP settings page to manage and monitor AI connections
- Connect your AI – Individual MCP access controls for every tool, plugin ability and Automator action
- Recipe Builder – Introduced new Flow UI with improved flexibility and readability, and nestable Filter, Queue and Loop elements that expand workflow capabilities
- Recipe Builder – Redesigned the layout, navigation, token selector and template library
- Recipe Builder – Simplified publishing controls
- Recipe Builder – Added autosave indicators, unsaved change warnings and saved view preferences
- Recipe Logs – Improved block controls, run details and added visual workflow display
New Integration:
- Dropbox #6481
New Triggers:
- Dropbox – A file is updated in a folder #8790
- Dropbox – A file or folder is created in a folder #8785
- Dropbox – A file or folder is deleted in a folder #8784
- Dropbox – A file or folder is moved to a folder #8788
- Dropbox – A file or folder is renamed in a folder #8789
New Actions:
- Dropbox – Add a member to a file #8776
- Dropbox – Add a member to a folder #8786
- Dropbox – Copy a file or folder to a new location #8778
- Dropbox – Create a folder in a parent folder #8782
- Dropbox – Delete an item #8781
- Dropbox – Get a shareable link to a file #8780
- Dropbox – Move a file or folder to a new location #8779
- Dropbox – Share a folder #8777
- Dropbox – Upload a file to a folder #8783
Fixed:
- Contact Form 7 – All triggers – Form field tokens now return submitted values instead of the form title when using the specific field value trigger. #9259
- Contact Form 7 – All triggers – Form submissions no longer run recipes for rejected submissions, including spam, missing consent, and failed payments. #9261
- Core – Prevented fatal errors when Action Scheduler is unavailable or a scheduled job is missing. #9030
- Emails – Send an email – Send errors are now reported instead of being marked as successfully sent. #9279
- Emails – Send an email – Emails blocked by User Lists now retain the reason for failure. #9281
- Multisite – Prevented cached Automator options from being shared between sites when switching between them. #9267
- One-off Actions – Custom dropdown values saved in recipes now work correctly when running actions individually. #9275
- Recipe – Previously enabled triggers and actions now retain their active status when restoring recipes from the trash. #9271
- Recipe Builder – Chained fields no longer remain stuck loading after a failed request and can be retried without reopening the editor. #9292
- Recipe Caches – Prevented unnecessary cache rebuilding when unrelated posts are updated. #9265
- Recipe Deletion – Permanently deleting a recipe now also removes its associated triggers and actions. #9269
- Recipe Import – Invalid bulk import files no longer leave partially imported recipes. #9268
- Recipe Post Type – Recipes are no longer accessible on the frontend. #9270
- Recipe Runs – Trigger errors no longer leave recipe runs open. #9281
- Redirect – Redirect to a URL – Other recipes now complete before the redirect occurs. #9256
- Redirect – Redirect to a URL – Redirects now work after Contact Form 7 submissions. #9248
- Tokens – Post tag tokens now return tags from the correct post. #9280
- Tokens – Resolved errors when parsing child, nested, and list tokens. #9280
- Webhooks – Send data to a webhook – Authentication credentials are now hidden in REST and MCP log responses. #9291
Under the hood:
- Admin – Updated Action Scheduler to 3.9.3.
- Admin – Centralized notices and added recipe notices to the builder.
- Agent Readers – Excluded posts, users, and terms no longer appear in results when include lists are also specified. #9282
- API Logs – Sensitive credentials are now redacted before requests are logged. #8802
- App Connections – Added secure connections through the Automator App Platform, with staging support and reliable event delivery. #7821 #8849
- Background App Actions – Added asynchronous processing for supported Dropbox and Instagram actions. #7295
- Core – Prevented unnecessary recipe loading from specially crafted URLs. #8801
- Fields – Improved compatibility with custom fields added through the
automator_options_callback_responsefilter. #9283 - Integration Loader – Prevented cached file paths from another installation from being used after site migrations or plugin copies. #9293
- Logs – Failed actions now record the correct error type regardless of message language. #8806
- MCP – Catalog lists now return usable item identifiers and include all available triggers instead of limiting results to three. #9273
- MCP Search – Valid actions with “Delete…from…” in their descriptions now appear in search results. #9274
- Recipe Builder – Added block deletion options and loopable token filtering. #9146
- Recipe Builder – Added testing for individual triggers and actions.
- Recipe Logs – Trigger and action sentences now reflect the settings used during the run. #9243
- Recipe Runs – Added automatic recovery for interrupted runs and editing locks for active recipes. #7049
- Redirect – Added a Redirect integration to replace closures, with automatic migration.
