--- title: "WordPress.com: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checklist" description: "WordPress.com, a site builder: 4 of 5 checklist rows read are met by default, with 6 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do." canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/wordpress-com site: "Agent Ready Checklist" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # WordPress.com: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checklist > WordPress.com, a site builder: 4 of 5 checklist rows read are met by default, with 6 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do. Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/wordpress-com Site: Agent Ready Checklist Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Agent endpoints: https://agentreadychecklist.com/llms.txt (index), https://agentreadychecklist.com/openapi.json (API), https://agentreadychecklist.com/mcp (MCP server), https://agentreadychecklist.com/ask (search) Access: https://agentreadychecklist.com/auth.md (no key). Pricing: https://agentreadychecklist.com/pricing.md (free). # WordPress.com WordPress.com gives every site a built-in MCP server that signs in through OAuth2, which meets AR-ACT-03 and AR-ACT-01, and applies WordPress core sitemaps and server rendering to hosted sites. An llms.txt needs a plugin, and plugins need a plan that allows them. Automattic runs the service, and free sites keep its ads. ## At a glance Type [Site builder](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/by-type/site-builder/) Operator Automattic Homepage [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.com), answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05 Checklist rows 5 of 31 read: **4** supported, 1 partial, 0 no statement In the crawl 5 of 5,897 home pages counted on 2026-11-04. Counted from the crawl's headers and generator tags, an undercount for hosted builders. Last read 2026-11-05 ## What it does for this layer - WordPress.com states it "includes a built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server" for AI agents such as Claude Desktop, VS Code and Cursor. primary source: [developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/](https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/), read 2026-11-05 - The WordPress.com MCP server authenticates with OAuth, according to the developer docs. primary source: [developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/](https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/), read 2026-11-05 - WordPress.com says data from its MCP tools is not used to train AI models and is used once as part of the original request. primary source: [developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/](https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/), read 2026-11-05 - Free WordPress.com sites display WordPress.com ads to visitors, and the Personal plan removes them. primary source: [wordpress.com/pricing/](https://wordpress.com/pricing/), read 2026-11-05 - WordPress.com paid plans can install any premium theme from the WordPress.com marketplace. primary source: [wordpress.com/pricing/](https://wordpress.com/pricing/), read 2026-11-05 - WordPress.com publishes an MCP tools reference and an OAuth2 authentication guide in its developer documentation. primary source: [developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/](https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/), read 2026-11-05 ## Products and plans | Product | What it is | Price | As of | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | WordPress.com Free | Hosted WordPress site with WordPress.com ads. | Free; ads shown to visitors; wordpress.com/pricing/ | 2026-11-05 | | WordPress.com paid plans | Personal, Premium, Business and Commerce plans. | From USD 4 per month billed every 12 months, excluding taxes: Personal 4, Premium 8, Business 25, Commerce 45; billed monthly: 9, 18, 40 and 70; wordpress.com/pricing/ | 2026-11-05 | ## Standards | Row | What it asks | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AR-FIND-03 | Sitemap listed in robots.txt | supports | WordPress core sitemaps apply to hosted sites. | make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/22/new-xml-sitemaps-functionality-in-wordpress-5-5/ | | AR-READ-01 | Answer in the initial HTML | supports | Pages render on the server through WordPress. | developer.wordpress.org/themes/classic-themes/basics/template-hierarchy/ | | AR-READ-07 | Ship llms.txt | partial | llms.txt needs a plugin, which needs a plugin-enabled plan. | yoast.com/features/llms-txt/ | | AR-ACT-01 | Auth an agent can finish | supports | The MCP server uses OAuth2 authentication. | developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/ | | AR-ACT-03 | MCP over Streamable HTTP | supports | Every site has a built-in MCP server with OAuth. | developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/ | ## Checks on its own site | Reading | Result | Date | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cloudflare scan of wordpress.com | 20 of 100, band L1 Basic Web Presence | 2026-11-05 | isitagentready.com | | Crawl row for wordpress.com | 7 of 10 checks pass; Tranco rank 99 | 2026-11-04 | agentreadychecklist.com/data/ | | Home pages counted in the crawl | 5 of 5,897; Counted from the shared crawl of 2026-11-04 by generator meta tag in the home page HTML; the generator rule only sees tags whose name attribute comes first, so it undercounts | 2026-11-04 | agentreadychecklist.com/data/ | | Check | Result | Verify Kit check | | --- | --- | --- | | robots.txt allows all 17 agent tokens at / | pass | robots-verdicts | | robots.txt blocks no search or user-fetch token | pass | robots-verdicts | | Home page has an h1 and 50 words in the initial HTML | pass | initial-html | | A missing path returns 404 or 410 | pass | status-codes | | /llms.txt exists | pass | llms-linked | | Home page links to llms.txt | pass | llms-linked | | Accept: text/markdown returns text/markdown | fail | markdown-negotiation | | Home page carries JSON-LD that parses | pass | json-ld | | OpenAPI linked from the home page or served at /openapi.json | fail | openapi | | /.well-known/mcp.json serves JSON | fail | mcp-or-cli | ## What it does not do - WordPress.com does not remove its ads from free sites. - WordPress.com does not expose a site's MCP server without OAuth sign-in by the account holder. ## Reading notes Amounts are the prices printed on the WordPress.com pricing page on 2026-11-05, in US dollars excluding taxes. ## Related pages on this site Recipes [WordPress, Elementor](https://agentreadychecklist.com/platforms/wordpress-elementor/) ([checklist view](https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/wordpress-elementor/checklist/)) Same recipe page [Elementor](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/elementor/), [Pantheon](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/pantheon/), [WooCommerce](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/woocommerce/), [WordPress](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/wordpress/) Same type [Site builders](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/by-type/site-builder/), [all vendors](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/) ## Sources - [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.com)read 2026-11-05 - [developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/](https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/)read 2026-11-05 - [wordpress.com/pricing/](https://wordpress.com/pricing/)read 2026-11-05 - [make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/22/new-xml-sitemaps-functionality-in-wordpress-5-5/](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/22/new-xml-sitemaps-functionality-in-wordpress-5-5/)read 2026-11-05 - [developer.wordpress.org/themes/classic-themes/basics/template-hierarchy/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/classic-themes/basics/template-hierarchy/)read 2026-11-05 - [yoast.com/features/llms-txt/](https://yoast.com/features/llms-txt/)read 2026-11-05 - [isitagentready.com](https://isitagentready.com/)read 2026-11-05 - [agentreadychecklist.com/data/](https://agentreadychecklist.com/data/)read 2026-11-04 Edition Data 2026-11-04 Reviewed 2026-11-05 Spec AgentReady v2.0, 273d2d7 Crawl 13,071 rows, 2026-11-04 Ora 132 checks, contract 1.38.0, 2026-11-05 Verify with Ora The scanner this site recommends for the whole checklist. 132 checks, a score out of 100, no account. `npx ax@0.10 audit --min-score ` [Why Ora, and its limits](https://agentreadychecklist.com/verify-with-ora/) Method - [How rows, commands and rates are made](https://agentreadychecklist.com/method/) - [How an Ora check is matched to a row](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ora-checks/) - [Pass rates by rank band](https://agentreadychecklist.com/data/by-rank/) Sources and read dates sit at the foot of the page. Last reviewed 2026-11-05. AgentReady v2.0, read 2026-11-04.