Set up AI Connect

AI Connect turns your own WordPress site into a remote MCP server (Model Context Protocol) – the open standard AI assistants use to work with external tools. Your site exposes one HTTPS endpoint; Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-compatible agent connects to it directly and calls Venuera tools on your behalf. There is no middleware, no Node.js process and nothing to host anywhere else – every call is a plain HTTPS request to your site, answered by your data, under your permissions.

Requirements

• The Venuera core and WooCommerce, installed and active.
• A publicly reachable HTTPS site. Cloud AI clients (Claude, ChatGPT) connect from their own infrastructure, so they cannot reach localhost or a .local development domain – use a tunnel (Cloudflare Tunnel, ngrok) for testing, or test locally with MCP Inspector.
• Pretty permalinks (recommended). With plain permalinks the /.well-known OAuth discovery may not work; AI Connect automatically publishes a /wp-json fallback, but pretty permalinks are the smooth path.
• WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+ – the same baseline as the Venuera core.

Install and activate

1. Go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the AI Connect zip, then Install Now and Activate.
2. Activate your licence (or start the 7-day trial) when prompted – like every Venuera add-on, AI Connect needs an active licence to run.
3. You are redirected straight to Venuera → AI Connect, the add-on’s home screen.

The AI Connect screen

Venuera → AI Connect has four tabs:

• Overview – your connection status, the endpoint URL with a Copy button, system checks, and step-by-step cards for connecting Claude, ChatGPT and other agents.
• Connections – every active AI connection (client, WordPress user, scopes, last used) with a Revoke button, plus Connection key generation for non-OAuth clients.
• Activity – the audit log: the latest tool calls with user, client, tool, outcome and duration.
• Settings – the master switch, read-only mode, client self-registration and audit options.

Your endpoint URL

Everything connects through one URL, shown on the Overview tab:

https://your-site.com/wp-json/venuera-mcp/v1/mcp

This is a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint – JSON-RPC 2.0 over plain POST requests. You never call it yourself; you paste it into an AI client and the client does the rest.

System checks

The Overview tab verifies your setup and warns about anything that would block AI clients:

• HTTPS – a site without HTTPS fails the check; AI clients will refuse to connect.
• Public reachability – local development domains get a warning with tunnel suggestions.
• Permalinks – plain permalinks get a warning that the /wp-json discovery fallback will be used.

Tools grow with your add-ons

AI Connect registers tools for every Venuera feature that is active on your site – the Overview tab shows the live count. The core alone gives the AI events, ticket types, attendees, stats and exports; activating Check-in, Recurring Events, Venue Designer, Custom Attendee Fields or Point of Sale lights up their tool groups automatically. The full list is in the tool reference.

Next step

Connect your assistant: Claude, ChatGPT, or Hermes, OpenClaw & other agents.