Working with MCP and Claude to Automate Tedious WordPress Tasks

I was recently working on a WordPress site where I needed to batch upload a bunch of text-heavy images and then generate posts, descriptions, and tags from those images while also setting the images as featured for each post. In the past, I did this using a serious of manual and semi-automated processes. I used wp-cli to help with the post creation, tagging, etc. For the images, I used a plugin I made that sent the image to OpenAI which transcribed it and added a Markdown description to the post. It worked, but it was a semi-manual process and still took time as I had to open each post, invoke the image transcription plugin, and then save. I did some experimenting today and I was able to do the whole process using the WordPress.com MCP and Claude Code. The only thing I had to do manually was upload the images (there was a limit to how Claude handled the image uploading and it recommended uploading separately). Otherwise, I was able to do everything via Claude. The site I did this on…