{"slug": "show-hn-kitepod-a-free-wordpress-mcp-with-staging-approvals-and-undo", "title": "Show HN: Kitepod – A free WordPress MCP with staging, approvals and undo", "summary": "Kitepod launched a free WordPress MCP connector that links Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to unlimited WordPress sites with no daily cap on tool calls, staging previews, human approval for code, user and database changes, and 90-day undo snapshots of every write. The plugin requires WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 7.4+, connects via kitepod.com/mcp in about two minutes, and acts only with the permissions of a chosen WordPress user. Kitepod positions the free tool against WPVibe, whose free plan stops at 100 tool calls a day and whose Pro plan stops at 500, and Respira, which costs €19/mo after a 7-day trial.", "body_md": "[kitepod](https://kitepod.com/)\n\n# Stop paying\n\nfor your\n\nWordPress MCP\n\nYou already pay for Claude or ChatGPT. Kitepod connects it to every WordPress site you run, free, with no daily cap. Every change it makes can be undone.\n\n- Unlimited tool calls\n- Unlimited sites\n- No card\n\nWorks with the assistant you already pay for\n\nand writes in the format your builder expects\n\n## Connected in about two minutes\n\nNo SSH, no application passwords pasted into a chat, no new AI subscription. A plugin on your site and one URL in your assistant.\n\n### Install the plugin\n\nUpload the Kitepod plugin to your WordPress site. WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 7.4+, any host.\n\n### Connect your site\n\nClick Connect in wp-admin and pick which WordPress user the AI acts as. It never gets more power than that user has.\n\n### Ask your assistant\n\nAdd kitepod.com/mcp as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Then just say what you want changed.\n\n## Everything you do in wp-admin, by asking\n\nKitepod gives your assistant the whole of WordPress, with the guardrails a real site needs.\n\n### Pages, posts and media\n\nWrite, edit, schedule and organise content, menus, terms and images.\n\n“Turn these meeting notes into a blog post with a featured image”\n\n### Design and themes\n\nGlobal styles, templates and theme files, edited in a draft you preview first.\n\n“Make the header sticky and the buttons rounder”\n\n### Page builders\n\nNative Elementor, Divi, Bricks and more, so pages still open in their editor.\n\n“Duplicate the services page in Elementor for our new location”\n\n### WooCommerce\n\nProducts, prices, stock and coupons, staged for review before they go live.\n\n“Put everything in Summer at 20% off until Sunday”\n\n### SEO\n\nTitles, meta descriptions, redirects and schema, through Yoast or Rank Math.\n\n“Write meta descriptions for every post that is missing one”\n\n### Code and snippets\n\nSnippets are created switched off. Turning one on needs a person's approval.\n\n“Hide the admin bar for subscribers”\n\n### Plugins and updates\n\nInstall, update and roll back plugins and themes, with a checkpoint before each.\n\n“Update every plugin on all three sites and tell me what changed”\n\n### Database and WP-CLI\n\nRead freely. Writes, search-replace and PHP need an approval first.\n\n“Find every page still linking to the old domain”\n\n## Your live site is never the experiment\n\nAn AI with write access is only useful if you can trust it. Kitepod keeps a record of everything it touches, and a way back.\n\n### Staged first\n\nRisky edits land on a preview, not your live page. Share the link, look it over.\n\n### Checked on the live page\n\nAfter a change goes out, Kitepod loads the page and screenshots it, before and after.\n\n### Approved by a person\n\nAnything that touches code, users or the database waits for you or your client. The AI can't approve itself.\n\n### Undo for 90 days\n\nEvery write is snapshotted. Undo one edit, a whole task, or a whole session.\n\n- Updated page “Pricing”Live\n- Replaced hero imageLive\n- Enabled snippet “Sticky header”Waiting for approval\n\n## Built for people who run other people's sites\n\nLet Claude do the edits your clients send you at 6pm, without ever wondering what it touched.\n\n### Clients approve their own changes\n\nInvite a client to just their site as an approver. They get an email, look at the preview, and click approve.\n\n### One chat, every site\n\nEvery connected site is in the same conversation, so “update the plugins everywhere” is one request.\n\n### A trail you can show\n\nWho asked, what changed, who approved it and when. Hash-chained on the site and in Kitepod.\n\n## Other connectors count your calls\n\nWPVibe's free plan stops at 100 tool calls a day, and its Pro plan at 500. A real redesign takes hundreds. Kitepod doesn't count them, and doesn't charge for them.\n\n|  | kitepod | WPVibe | Respira | \n|---|---|---|---|\n| Price | Free | Free, then $99–$899/yr | 7-day trial, then €19/mo | \n| Tool calls | Unlimited | 100 a day free, 500 on Pro | Not published | \n| One-click undo | 90 days | Drafts and trash | 90 days | \n\nFrom each product's public pricing page, October 2026.\n\n## We don't run the AI. You do.\n\nThe thinking happens on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for. All Kitepod does is carry its requests to your site safely, and that costs us almost nothing. So we don't charge for it, and we don't count your calls.\n\nThe thinking runs on the plan you already have\n\nNo cap, no meter, no card\n\n- sweetcrumb.bakery\n- client-two.com\n- every site you run\n\nOne day we'll add optional extras for agencies and big teams. Everything above stays free.\n\n## Questions\n\n## Is it really free?\n\nYes. No trial clock, no call meter and no card. Connect as many sites as you run.\n\n## What's the catch?\n\nThere isn't one. The AI runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan, so carrying its requests to your site costs us very little. We'd rather have you using Kitepod than charge you for it.\n\n## Will you start charging later?\n\nWe'll add optional extras for agencies and big teams one day. Everything in Kitepod today stays free, and sites you connect now keep it.\n\n## Do I need another AI subscription?\n\nNo. Kitepod connects the Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor plan you already have to your sites. We never charge for AI usage.\n\n## What does unlimited calls actually mean?\n\nThere is no daily or monthly cap on tool calls. A short per-site rate limit stops a runaway agent from hammering your server, and that's it.\n\n## Will the AI break my live site?\n\nRisky changes are staged on a preview first, every write is snapshotted, and the page is checked after it goes live. If something looks wrong, undo it in one click, up to 90 days later.\n\n## Is it safe to give an AI write access?\n\nThe AI acts as the WordPress user you choose and can't do more than that user can. Code, user and database changes wait for a person's approval, and the AI has no way to approve its own work.\n\n## Does it work with my page builder?\n\nYes. Kitepod has built-in guides for Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Beaver Builder, Breakdance, Kadence, GeneratePress, SeedProd and Oxygen, so it edits in each builder's own format and pages still open in their editor.\n\n## Do I need to install a plugin?\n\nYes, the Kitepod plugin. It needs WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 7.4+, and works on any host that can make outgoing HTTPS requests.\n\n## Can my clients approve changes?\n\nYes. Invite a client to their site as an approver. They get an email for anything that needs a decision, see the preview, and approve or decline.\n\n## Hand your sites to your AI. Keep the undo.\n\nFree, unlimited calls, set up in two minutes.\n\n[Connect all your sites free](https://kitepod.com/login)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kitepod-a-free-wordpress-mcp-with-staging-approvals-and-undo", "canonical_source": "https://kitepod.com/", "published_at": "2026-10-30 15:32:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-30 15:46:53.275302+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Kitepod", "WordPress", "Claude", "ChatGPT", "Cursor", "WPVibe", "Respira", "WooCommerce"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kitepod-a-free-wordpress-mcp-with-staging-approvals-and-undo", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kitepod-a-free-wordpress-mcp-with-staging-approvals-and-undo.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kitepod-a-free-wordpress-mcp-with-staging-approvals-and-undo.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kitepod-a-free-wordpress-mcp-with-staging-approvals-and-undo.jsonld"}}