AI Shenanigans Archives

Adventures in working with AI: connecting Claude to my sites, building human-machine pipelines, debugging the strange new plumbing that makes it all possible — and whatever else this rapidly evolving collaboration gets up to. Some of these articles were written together with the very AI they describe.

Connecting Claude to self-hosted WordPress: MCP, OAuth, and a pipeline that closes the loop

Claude can now talk to my self-hosted WordPress sites via MCP. Here’s the full setup with the Atlas AI Connector, the OAuth debugging saga that came with it, and the Notion-to-WordPress publishing pipeline that fell out the other end — including the fact that this very article travelled through it.