WordPress MCP for Gemini: setup in two minutes

1. Open the Gemini settings file

   Gemini CLI keeps MCP servers in its settings JSON. Use ~/.gemini/settings.json to have Sprites available everywhere, or .gemini/settings.json inside a project to scope it there.

   Gemini CLI

   ~/.gemini›settings.json

2. Add Sprites under mcpServers

   Use httpUrl, not url or command — that is the key Gemini CLI reads for a streamable HTTP endpoint. A url entry is treated as SSE and a command entry as a local process, and neither is what this is.

   ~/.gemini/settings.json

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "sprites": {
         "httpUrl": "https://mcp.sprites.ai/mcp"
       }
     }
   }

3. Sign in

   Gemini CLI supports OAuth 2.0 for remote servers and discovers the authorization server from the endpoint itself. Restart the CLI, and the first call opens a browser for the Sprites consent screen; the token is stored in ~/.gemini/mcp-oauth-tokens.json.

   Spriteswants access on behalf of Gemini

   • Read your connected ad accounts and site data
   • Draft campaigns, creatives and pages for your approval
   • Apply only the changes you approve

   AllowCancel

4. Check it landed

   Type /mcp in the CLI to list every server and the tools it exposes, or run gemini mcp list from a shell to see connection status without opening a session.

   Terminal

   gemini mcp list

WordPress.com hosts its own MCP server, now able to write: 19 abilities across posts, pages, comments, categories, tags and media, each switched on individually in your MCP settings, with the agent describing every change and asking before it applies. Writes need a paid WordPress.com plan. Self-hosted WordPress has no hosted equivalent; its official route is the WordPress/mcp-adapter plugin over the Abilities API in WordPress 6.9.

If you run WordPress.com and want to draft or tidy content from a chat, its own server is well built — every write is confirmed and every operation can be switched off. Use Sprites when the question is what to write and why: it reads Search Console and keyword data first, works on self-hosted sites without a plugin, and holds every post and edit as a draft you approve.

• With Sprites, write a post on "wordpress speed optimization" and draft it in WordPress.
• Ask Sprites which WordPress pages lost position in the last 28 days and why.
• Use Sprites to rewrite the meta title and description on our /pricing page.
• Have Sprites add an FAQ section with schema to the three posts that get AI Overview impressions.
• With Sprites, cluster our blog by intent and tell me which posts cannibalise each other.

Run `gemini mcp list`, or type /mcp inside the CLI — Sprites should show as connected with its tools listed.