Install and connect, step by step

This page takes you from nothing to your first request, in about ten minutes. You need:

• a WordPress site you manage, and an administrator account on it;
• ChatGPT or Claude;
• an email address you can open, for your free AI Puffer account.

No WordPress password, API key or config file is asked for at any point.

1. Install AI Puffer

1. In wp-admin, go to Plugins › Add New.
2. Search for AI Puffer, then select Install Now and Activate.
3. AI Puffer appears in the admin menu on the left.

Shortcut: on Get started, enter your site’s address and we open the installer for you.

2. Open Manage my website

1. Go to AI Puffer › Settings and open the Connections tab.
2. Under Website management, select Manage my website.

A side panel opens on its Website tab. Everything below happens in this panel.

3. Verify your email (first time only)

Website management runs on a free AI Puffer Cloud account. If the panel says Verify your email to connect an assistant:

1. Select Verify email. The panel switches to its Account tab.
2. Enter your email, tick the box to agree to the terms, and select Connect for free.
3. Open the confirmation email and confirm (the button may say Continue activation).
4. Back in the panel, select Check again. It shows Connected. Go back to the Website tab.

Already verified on this site, or with this email before? You won’t see this step.

4. Connect your assistant in wp-admin

1. Select Connect an assistant.
2. Under Assistant, choose ChatGPT or Claude.
3. Choose a Safety level. Trusted, the default, makes supported changes on its own. Standard asks you before anything goes live. You can change it at any time. See Safety levels.
4. Under Act as, choose the WordPress user your assistant works as. It can never do more than this user.
5. Tick the box to agree, and select Connect assistant.

A new tab opens: Add AI Puffer to ChatGPT or Add AI Puffer to Claude. It shows the address to use, with a Copy button. Keep it open, and finish the next step in this same browser within 10 minutes.

5. Add AI Puffer in your assistant

Claude

1. In Claude, open Settings › Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
2. Paste the address from the AI Puffer tab.
3. Choose Connect. Claude opens AI Puffer in your browser: choose Allow.

ChatGPT

1. In ChatGPT, open Plugins. If AI Puffer is already there, open its settings and choose Reconnect. Otherwise add a new remote MCP plugin.
2. Name it AI Puffer and paste the address from the AI Puffer tab as the server address.
3. Choose OAuth. ChatGPT opens AI Puffer in your browser: choose Allow.

Adding your own plugin may need ChatGPT’s developer mode, depending on your ChatGPT plan.

You can close the AI Puffer tab after choosing Allow.

6. Check the connection

Back in wp-admin, in the same panel, select Check next to your assistant. It shows Connected.

7. Ask

Open a new chat in ChatGPT or Claude, make sure AI Puffer is switched on for it, and ask:

What can you do on my site?

Then try a first change:

Create a draft post introducing my business. Don’t publish it.

The cookbook has tested requests for posts, WooCommerce, SEO, images and more.

If it doesn’t connect

You see	Do this
Verify your email to connect an assistant	Do step 3, then Connect an assistant again.
Waiting for approval in the assistant	Finish step 5 in the same browser, then select Check.
The 10 minutes ran out	Select Connect assistant again for a new link.
Your assistant doesn’t use your site	Switch the AI Puffer connector or plugin on for that chat.
Nothing happens on a site behind a firewall or bot protection	Allow requests from AI Puffer’s relay through it, or ask your host to.

More detail per assistant: Connect Claude · Connect ChatGPT.