Ask your AI assistant about any WordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ Trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..
Announcing the the WordPress Trac Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or any other MCP client to read tickets, changesets, and timeline history straight from Trac.
Public and free to use: no account or API An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. key needed. Works with every WordPress.org Trac.
Example usage:
- “What’s left to do on #59446, and which pull requests are still open?”
- “Show me open HTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. API tickets, most recently changed first.”
- “What did saxmatt commit in January 2005?”
- “Summarize r62723 and its diff.”
Key tools: searchTickets, getTicket, getChangeset, getTimeline, and getTracInfo. A ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. comes back with discussion, attachments, related changesets, and linked GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ pull requests with their checks and reviews.
Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Trac is the default, and the server works with every other Trac: Meta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress., Themes, Plugins, bbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org, BuddyPress, GlotPress, and GSoC. Connect to /mcp/meta and the tools read Meta Trac.
Connect with a one-liner like this in Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http wordpress-trac https://wordpress-trac-mcp-server-prod.a8c-aiops.workers.dev/mcp
Other clients take the same URL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org, or use mcp-remote as a local bridge. ChatGPT uses the search-and-fetch endpoint at /mcp/chatgpt. The README has every endpoint and client setup.
The code lives in GitHub at WordPress/trac-mcp.
Props to @jonsurrell, whose issues and pull requests shaped this tool. Thanks also to James LePage, who wrote the first version, and to David Newman for help setting up the hosting. And to @obenland, who added support for all the Tracs.
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