--- title: Connect an AI assistant description: "Let Claude, Claude Code, Codex, or any MCP client manage your site, and decide what each connection may do." url: "https://flatsome.com/docs/connect-ai-assistant" lastUpdated: 2026-09-30 --- Flatsome includes an MCP server, so AI assistants can create pages, edit templates and menus, upload media, and change settings on your site using the same blocks you use in the Builder. Every connection starts read-only and you grant more as you trust it. ## Enable the MCP Server module Go to **Flatsome → Dashboard → Modules**, enable **MCP Server**, select it, and choose **Open** in the details panel. Choose **Connect** at the top right to see the **Server address**, which is your site URL followed by `/wp-json/flatsome/mcp`. Every client uses that address. ## Hosted assistants Claude, ChatGPT, Mistral Vibe, and other hosted assistants connect through your site's sign-in page, so there is no password to copy. Add the server address as a custom connector, and when the assistant opens your site in the browser, sign in and choose **Allow access**. Pick your assistant for the exact steps. 1. In Claude on the web or in the desktop app, go to **Customize → Connectors**. 2. Choose **+**, then **Add custom connector**. 3. Enter a name, such as your site name, and paste the server address. Leave **Advanced settings** empty and choose **Add**. 4. Choose **Connect** next to the new connector. Sign in to your site and choose **Allow access**. 5. In a chat, open the **+** menu, choose **Connectors**, and turn on your site. The Free plan allows one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise plans, an owner first adds the connector under **Organization settings → Connectors** by choosing **Add**, then **Custom** and **Web**. Members then choose **Connect** under **Customize → Connectors**. 1. On chatgpt.com, go to **Settings → Security and login** and turn on **Developer mode**. 2. Open **Plugins** in the sidebar, choose **+**, and create an app for an MCP server. 3. Enter a name, paste the server address as the server URL, keep **OAuth** as the authentication method, and choose **Create**. 4. When ChatGPT opens your site's sign-in page, sign in and choose **Allow access**. 5. In a chat, open the **+** menu, choose **Developer mode**, and select your app. Developer mode is available on the web for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans. In Business and Enterprise workspaces, an admin may need to allow it first. ChatGPT asks you to confirm actions that change your site before it runs them. 1. In Mistral Vibe (formerly Le Chat) at chat.mistral.ai, open **Connectors**. 2. Choose **Add Connector** and switch to the **Custom MCP Connector** tab. 3. Enter a name without spaces, such as `mysite`, paste the server address as the server URL, and choose **Connect**. 4. Vibe detects the sign-in method and opens your site's sign-in page. Sign in and choose **Allow access**. Only admins can add connectors. On Free, Pro, and Student plans, you are the admin of your own account. Any assistant or editor that supports remote MCP servers with OAuth sign-in connects the same way, including Visual Studio Code and Cursor. Add the server address as a remote or HTTP server. The first time it connects, it opens your site's sign-in page. If the assistant only accepts a token or an authorization header, follow **Command-line tools** below instead. Every new connection starts read-only. Administrators can allow changes and deletions on the approval screen, or later in the connections list. ## Command-line tools 1. In the **Connect** dialog under **Command-line tools**, choose **Create application password**. WordPress opens your profile with the application name filled in; create the password and copy it. 2. Back in the **Connect** dialog, fill in your username, the application password, and a connection name that tells you later which tool this is. 3. Copy the snippet for your tool: a `claude mcp add` command for Claude Code, a block for the Codex configuration file, or the authorization header for any other MCP client. ## Decide what a connection may do Every assistant that connects appears in the connections list on the MCP screen with the user it acts as, when it was first seen, and when it was last used. Select a connection to change its access: - **Read-only** (default): shown as a badge while no switch is on. It can read content and settings but not change anything. - **Allow writes**: it can create and update content. - **Allow destructive actions**: it can also delete content. Requires writes. - **Limit to specific tools**: restrict the connection to a chosen set of tools. Changes take effect on the next request. Reconnect the client to refresh its tool list. The assistant can never do more than the WordPress user it signed in as. **Disconnect** removes a hosted connection and revokes its access. For an application password connection, **Remove** clears its grants and **Revoke application password** revokes the password. **View activity** shows everything a connection has done. ## If the assistant cannot connect Choose **Diagnostics** on the MCP screen, then **Run diagnostics** in the dialog. It checks that the server address is reachable, that authentication works, and that nothing on the host strips the headers the client sends, and it reports what to fix.