Darrel Wilson · Youtube · 08:25

Easily Connect Claude AI to WordPress in 3 Minutes

A step-by-step screen-share showing how the free NovaMira MCP plugin turns Claude Desktop into a WordPress page builder.

Posted
May 20th 2026
yesterday
Duration
08:25
Format
Tutorial
educational
Channel
DW
Darrel Wilson
§ 01 · The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

Before Darrel says a single instruction, two finished websites fill the screen. A luxury real estate listing. A bold digital agency homepage. Both built by Claude. Both from a single prompt. The method comes after the proof.

§ · Stated Promise

What the video promised.

stated at 00:15 "I will walk you through exactly how to connect Claude to your WordPress website." delivered at 03:34
§ · Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 00:26

01 · Cold open

Two polished Claude-built WordPress sites before any explanation. States the promise.

00:26 – 01:24

02 · Install NovaMira plugin

Download free plugin, upload to WordPress, enable AI abilities.

01:35 – 02:40

03 · Generate and copy MCP config

NovaMira generates Claude Desktop JSON config. Copy snippet from Connect Your AI Client.

02:40 – 02:56

04 · Paste config and save

Open Claude Desktop Settings > Developer > Edit Config. Paste JSON. Save not Save As.

02:56 – 03:34

05 · Verify connection

Restart Claude, check Settings > Developer, confirm NovaMira connector live in chat.

03:34 – 03:52

06 · Simple page demo

Prompt: Create a page called YouTube. Page appears instantly.

03:52 – 05:29

07 · Complex Elementor site demo

Disable Atomic Editor, enable Containers. Claude builds full dog grooming site.

05:29 – 06:48

08 · Review output + HTML vs elements

Opens site in Elementor. Shows why specifying Elementor containers matters.

06:48 – 08:25

09 · NovaMira Pro pitch + outro

Shows Pro-generated agency site. Pricing: 49 euros/3 sites, 99 euros/unlimited.

§ · Storyboard

Visual structure at a glance.

proof - finished sites
NovaMira download page
NovaMira config panel
copy JSON snippet
paste into Claude config
connection verified
dog grooming prompt
generated site live
NovaMira Pro example
§ · Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

00:26 list

3-Step MCP WordPress Connection

  1. Install NovaMira free plugin, enable AI abilities
  2. Copy JSON snippet into claude_desktop_config.json; use Save not Save As
  3. Restart Claude Desktop; verify via Settings > Developer

Minimum path to give Claude Desktop live read/write access to a WordPress install.

Steal for Any tutorial wiring Claude Desktop to an external tool via MCP
05:00 list

Prompt Specificity Rule for Elementor

  1. Disable Atomic Editor in Elementor settings before prompting
  2. Enable Containers feature in Elementor
  3. In prompt: name the page, say use Elementor containers, not atomic elements
  4. Add: Be creative and make the design high fidelity

Without explicit page-builder instructions, Claude defaults to HTML widgets that bypass Elementor entirely.

Steal for Any AI + page builder workflow covering prompt engineering for visual outputs
§ · Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:42
"I have licked the pot clean."
Funny, vivid, credibility-building. Signals exhaustive personal testing. → TikTok hook for tested-everything-so-you-dont-have-to format
06:40
"If you do not instruct it to use the Elementor elements, it is just gonna use HTML for everything."
Clear gotcha moment. The one thing viewers will forget and regret. → IG reel cold open: The mistake everyone makes with Claude + Elementor
08:12
"AI can actually use WordPress much better than users can."
Provocative forward-looking claim, no setup needed. → TikTok hook, comment-bait, newsletter pull-quote
§ · Pacing

How they spent the runtime.

Hook length26s
Info densityhigh
Filler8%
§ · Resources Mentioned

Things they pointed at.

06:48productNovaMira Pro ↗
§ · CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

06:48 product
"Now for those of you who want to try NovaMirror Pro, there is a pro version for this plugin."

Soft sell after demonstrating the free tier fully. Shows noticeably better Pro-generated site before pricing reveal. Low pressure.

§ 04 · The Script

Word for word.

HOOK opening / re-engagementCTA the pitch metaphor story
00:00HOOKI made these websites with Claude with just one simple prompt. And guess what? You can too.
00:04HOOKYou can use Claude to create blog posts, adjust code snippets, and do anything you want right inside of WordPress. So in this tutorial, I'll walk you through exactly how to connect Claude to your WordPress website. It's actually really easy, So let's get into it.
00:16HOOKNow, the very first thing that we're gonna do is we're gonna go to a website called Novamir. Now, there is a link in the video description to this website. It's a free plugin.
00:24HOOKIt does not cost you anything whatsoever. Now, once you get to this page, you'll click on download for free. What this will do is this will actually integrate an AI agent onto your WordPress websites.
00:34Now, I've used many different methods. I've used the browser. I've used terminal, and this method by far is the easiest way to go.
00:41Trust me. Trust me. I have I have licked the pot clean.
00:45And then you'll go over to plugins and click on add a plugin, and you will upload that plugin. So upload file,
00:52choose the file, and then you will select the NovaMira plugin. Here we go. NovaMira.
00:57Okay. And then you'll click on install now. Now, one thing I also wanna mention, you know, this is gonna, you know, cause some tension in the comments, but I think cloud works 10 times better with desktop than it does with Mac.
01:09I used Mac before, and I just get so many errors. It doesn't work well, but that's a whole another story. Anyways, so here you'll see that NovaMirror is installed, and once you install it on the top left right here, you'll see the NovaMirror tab.
01:22Just go ahead and click on configuration. Okay? Now, the first thing that you want to do is make sure that you check turn on AI abilities, and click on save settings.
01:32And then here, I'll click on generate application password. Now, it's going to give us this application password, and it's just going to say, oh, yeah. Just go ahead and connect your AI agent.
01:41This doesn't work too well. So, we're gonna do it the right way. Now, here at the bottom, you're gonna see this link that says, need adjacent configuration.
01:48We're gonna click on this, and then you're gonna see you have an option for all these different operating systems or programs or whatever. You're gonna click on Claude desktop.
01:58Okay? And then you're gonna copy this. Now, this works for Windows and Mac.
02:02I've tested it on both. So just follow the same exact process. In fact, right here, it's gonna tell you Mac OS, and then also here, it's gonna say Windows.
02:11But anyways, all you have to do is go over to your cloud application. So you'll open this, and then you're gonna go to your settings tab. So up here, settings,
02:20and then you'll click on the developer, and then you'll see edit config. Now, if you're using Mac, it might say claud config
02:29dot json. Okay. It might say that.
02:31So you'll just click on the JSON file. Okay. And then you're gonna take this, and then delete it, and then just paste that in.
02:38Just like that. And that's all you gotta do. Next, I'll go to file, and you wanna make sure you select save.
02:44If you click save as, it's gonna create a duplicate file. And when Claude reloads, it's going to reload the old script. So make sure that you just put save.
02:52You wanna overwrite it. Once that's done, we can close this window, close this,
02:58and we need to now close Claude because you're gonna see it's not connected. So we just have to close Claude and reopen it. Alright.
03:05Okay. And then to confirm it's connected, I'll go over here to the settings tab. And under developer, you'll now see that this is connected.
03:13Okay? Now we can double check this by going over to our chat. So I'll type in new chats.
03:18And if I click on the plus icon, you are going to see under the connectors, NovaMira is now connected.
03:25Now, here is the actual domain. So let's go ahead and test this out. Right?
03:29Let's go ahead and see how this works. So I'll go over here, and I'll ask, are you connected to my website? Alright.
03:35Cool. WordPress is hooked up, and now we can perform some tasks. So let's just give it something really basic.
03:40You know, let's just create a basic page. Right? Create a page called YouTube.
03:45Alright. I don't know. Something really basic.
03:48Alright. Done. Now it's created.
03:50So we can go over here to pages. Click on all pages, and there is my YouTube page. Pretty cool.
03:57Now, wanna do something more complex. Right? I mean, that's really simple.
04:00Any idiot can do that. Right? So let's give it something that's, uh, you know, that we can do.
04:05Now, I wanted to make a full on website like these, uh, pages that you saw right here. Something really vibrant, something really complex, and something that's, you know, we need AI for. So what I wanna do now is I wanted to use the Elementor page builder.
04:17But before I do that, want to actually adjust some settings. Now, is optional. So you can use your own page builder if if you use, uh, Gutenberg,
04:26you can use that. If you're using, uh, any sort of page builder, it can adapt to any page builder. But I want to disable the atomic editor, so I don't really wanna use this.
04:37So I'm gonna click on deactivates, and I do not wanna use the atomic editor. So I'm gonna go ahead and deactivate that.
04:44Also, one other important thing to do is under features, you do wanna make sure container is active. My experience is that, uh, if you have it at default, sometimes it'll actually create the website with intersections,
04:56which is a very old model. So I usually change the container to active. And now that we've done that, so let's go ahead now and give it a command.
05:05Create an award dog grooming website with vibrant colors for the page YouTube, the one that we just created. Use elements containers and not the atomic elements. Now, probably don't need to put that because we've already disabled that.
05:15Right? Be creative and make the design high fidelity. So I'm just essentially saying, I want this to be really good.
05:22Right? So let's go ahead now and run this prompt and see what we get. And it's done.
05:27So you'll see it created all these sections. Now what I did here was I actually instructed it to use the Elementor widget. So I added the video, and I'll explain a little bit more of why you want to do that.
05:38So here, I'll go ahead and open up this link.
05:42Okay. And here is my website. It's pretty cool, pretty basic, you know, but, uh, hey, it's a good looking website.
05:50Now I'll go over here, and I will click on edit with Elementor, and here's the website. Now if I click on a section like the heading, you'll see it's actually utilizing the actual elements.
05:58Same thing here for the button as well. Whoops.
06:01I don't what that's about. But, anyways, just clicking on everything, you're gonna see that in most cases, you'll see right here, it uses the HTML code. But in a majority of instances, it'll use the Elementor elements.
06:13Now this was the website I generated before, but I forgot to actually say use the Elementor elements. And you're gonna see they use pretty much HTML for everything. So if you don't instruct it to use the Elementor elements, it's just gonna use HTML for everything.
06:26Now, technically, this still is a website, but it's like not the right way. You're gonna see this entire section was built HTML,
06:33CTAand it doesn't really utilize the elements. So when using Clot, just make sure to instruct it to use actual, um, you know, to use the elements so you don't get a bunch of HTML widgets and stuff like that. Now for those of you who want to try NovaMirror Pro, there is a pro version for this plugin.
06:48CTAAnd what NovaMirror does is the pro version actually teaches Claude about the elements and it gives it more of a creative design process. For example, I have this website right here and this was created with the Pro version. So you can see that, uh, there are some small things you have to fix,
07:04CTAbut, uh, overall, I do like the design of this. I think it's pretty good, you know, for a a one prompt, uh, websites. Here you can see that we have to use a flex box.
07:12CTANo big deal. We just have to align it to the right. Uh, here we have this other section.
07:16CTAScrolling down, we have this, uh, testimonial. Here we have a really nice call to action, and then we have like a small footer here at the bottom. Now I'll show you exactly what I typed in to get this.
07:26CTASo over here, I just typed in, I wanna create a modern design agency websites, and it just gave it some really basic things. This wasn't too much, but just giving it a little bit, you can see it really drastically improve the design process.
07:40CTANow, Novomir Pro costs about $49 I'm sorry, €49. I never really buy things in euros, but, uh, yeah, €49,
07:47CTAand that's good for three websites. And for a thousand websites, it's €99. So I think that's probably your best value.
07:54CTASo if you do wanna try it out, uh, you can. I'm not saying you have to, but, uh, it does help Claude kind of, uh, guide it with design process. So that is pretty much it.
08:02So that is how you can connect Claude to WordPress. I think the future is gonna be very interesting. As time goes on, I'm slowly starting to lean towards the AI side saying AI can actually
08:13use, like, WordPress much better than users can. And now that Cloud can use page builders, well, I don't know what the future holds, so we'll see what happens.
08:21My name is Daryl Wilson, and I will see all of you party people later.
— full transcript
§ 05 · For Joe

Show the output before the method.

Tutorial hook structure

Darrel opens with two finished websites and only then explains how he made them. The proof precedes the process.

  • Open every tutorial with the end result on screen, not a title card.
  • NovaMira free plugin is a legit MCP bridge worth covering for any WordPress audience.
  • The prompt specificity lesson is a standalone Short: one gotcha, clear before/after.
  • The AI-beats-users closing claim is comment-farming gold.
  • Never pitch before the proof: show free tier working fully before mentioning Pro pricing.
§ 05 · For You

You can build WordPress pages by describing them in plain English.

If you want to try this yourself

With one free plugin and Claude Desktop, you can describe a webpage and watch it get built. No code required.

  • Install the free NovaMira plugin on your WordPress site. Takes about 2 minutes.
  • Paste one JSON snippet into Claude Desktop config and restart the app.
  • Be specific in your prompts: name your page builder, describe the style, say what not to use.
  • Start with a simple test before attempting a full design.
  • The free tier is genuinely functional. You do not need Pro for a working result.
§ 06 · Frame Gallery

Visual moments.