Connecting your site is a one-time job. You install a small free plugin, approve the connection on your own site, and copy the MCP URL. Your WordPress password never leaves your site.

Before you start

  • You’re logged in to WordPress as an administrator.
  • WordPress 6.5 or newer and PHP 8.0 or newer, with MemberPress (Lite or paid) active.
  • Your site has a public https address.
  • Permalinks are set to anything other than “Plain” (Settings → Permalinks).

Install from MemberPress Add-ons

This is the quickest path, and it works on any site with an active paid MemberPress license.

  1. Go to the start page and type your site address. We send you to your own MemberPress → Add-ons screen. You can also get there yourself: in WordPress, open MemberPress → Add-ons. The address ends in /wp-admin/admin.php?page=memberpress-addons.
  2. If WordPress asks you to log in, do that. It brings you back to the add-ons screen.
  3. Type MCP in the Search add-ons box, then click Install Add-on on Membership MCP. It downloads, installs and activates in one step.

If the screen says “Please enter your license key to access add-ons”, or there’s no Add-ons item in your MemberPress menu, use the zip instead.

Install from the zip

  1. Download the plugin zip. It’s free.
  2. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
  3. Choose the zip, click Install Now, then Activate Plugin.

Either way, updates arrive through WordPress’s normal plugin updates after that.

Approve the connection

When the plugin activates, open its screen in your WordPress admin and go to the connection step.

  1. Choose what your AI may do on this site: Read only, Content or Full access. Nothing is picked for you. Your choice is the site’s Maximum access, and you can change it later under Settings on the Membership MCP screen.
  2. Click Connect. Sign in, or create your free account, when it opens. You’re then asked to approve the connection for this site.
  3. Approve it. You come back to your WordPress admin.
  4. Your site is now connected to your Membership MCP account.

Only an administrator can connect a site. The actions your AI takes later run as the administrator who approved the connection, and every one is recorded in the plugin’s Activity log on your site.

Copy the MCP URL

Use https://mcp.membershipmcp.ai for every site. When you sign in from your AI app, you pick your site.

Connecting more than one site to the same AI app? Use each site’s own address from its card in your account, and name each connection after its site. On that site’s card at app.membershipmcp.ai, open Connect this site on its own and use the Copy button. It works only for that site.

Paste that URL into your AI app in the next step.

If something goes wrong

  • Membership MCP isn’t in Add-ons. Use the zip path above.
  • The screen warns about permalinks. Change Settings → Permalinks to “Post name” (or any option except “Plain”) and save.
  • The connection fails or your site can’t be reached. See Connection errors.