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This week in Respira: the controls that decide what an AI may do now answer only to the site owner, structure changes are one restore away, and Respira runs on top of the official WordPress MCP Adapter, which has no drafts, approvals or undo of its own.
What Respira for WordPress is in a nutshell, how it started with one task at my day job, and what the people using it say, in their own words.
WPVibe sells a daily allowance of tool calls and stops your AI when it runs out. Respira has no meter: you pay for site slots, and your AI does as much as the work needs. Compared on price, live edits, privacy, features and the legal small print, checked on 3 October 2026.
Grok can now read and edit your WordPress site through Respira for WordPress. On grok.com your site goes in as a custom connector with a sign-in, in Grok Build it is one command, and Respira AER runs on an xAI key. Grok Bot is submitted and waits for review.
Respira AER is live: Respira builder intelligence in a chat connected to all your WordPress sites, in your dashboard and on your phone, with duplicates, approvals and receipts.
Your Claude or ChatGPT subscription is not an API account, which is why most WordPress AI plugins cannot use it. Here is the way round that, in plain terms.
How to connect a live WordPress site to Hermes Agent and work on it from the terminal or the desktop app: what goes in ~/.hermes/config.yaml, browser sign-in per site or one server for the whole account, and what the agent can read and change once it is connected.
Two customers connected Hermes Agent to their WordPress sites before support existed. It worked, so it is official now: Hermes on the setup page, a one-click install, browser sign-in per site, one config for the whole fleet, and full attribution in the activity log.
The working path from a Figma frame to a real WordPress page: the agent reads the node tree through Figma’s own MCP server, uploads the frame’s images to your media library, and rebuilds the layout in your builder’s native format. With three conversions you can open and inspect.
Every Respira site now carries a persistent memory for AI agents: conventions the agent honors in every session, and rules the plugin enforces at the write path. It also reads the Knowledge experiment WordPress core is building toward, on real production sites today.
The stable specification removes protocol sessions, adds server discovery, hardens authorization, and formalizes extensions. Respira 8.1 implements it with a tested legacy path, while Webflow MCP 2.0 shows why production governance matters.
Add your WordPress site or WooCommerce store to Viktor as a custom MCP server and edit it by typing a message in Slack or Microsoft Teams. Step by step, with the exact link to paste, the access levels worth thinking about, and the shared-channel setup for agencies working with clients.
A WordPress MCP server lets an AI assistant read and edit your live site. What actually separates the options in 2026: builder coverage, safety and recovery, connection paths, and hosting model.
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