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Connectors / Developer tools · HTTP Connector
Automate WP Engine with Tray.ai
Create a site, create an install and create a domain in WP Engine. Connect WP Engine to the rest of your developer tools stack with Tray.ai.
What can you do with WP Engine on Tray.ai?
WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform where agencies and businesses run sites, environments, domains, backups, and caching for their WordPress installs. Tray.ai connects to WP Engine through the HTTP Connector, so your workflows can call the WP Engine API alongside the rest of your stack.
- Purge the cache when new content is published in your content system.
- Create a backup before each release your engineering team ships.
- Create an account user when a new agency staff member joins in your HR system.
- Connects through
- HTTP Connector
- Authentication
- Basic authentication
- Base URL
- https://api.wpengineapi.com/v1
Set it up
Connect WP Engine to Tray.ai
Each step uses WP Engine's own API details, from its documentation.
Step 1
Save WP Engine's username and password
Save the credentials WP Engine gives you as a Tray.ai authentication. The HTTP Client sends them as basic auth. They stay out of the workflow and out of the logs.
Step 2
Point the HTTP Client at the API
Add an HTTP Client step and use https://api.wpengineapi.com/v1 as the base URL. Or paste a cURL example from WP Engine's API docs, and Tray.ai fills in the method, URL, and headers.
Step 3
Start with “List sites”
It's one of 22 documented actions, under Sites. The response comes back as data the next step can map into your other apps.
Step 4
Hand it to an AI agent
Wrap “Create a site” and “Update a site” in workflows, and Tray.ai's Agent Gateway for MCP publishes them as governed tools Claude and other AI agents can call.
Give your AI agents WP Engine tools
Build an MCP server on WP Engine in Agent Gateway and choose which actions your agents can call. Every call runs with access control and an audit trail. How Agent Gateway works
- List sites
- List installs
- List domains
- List backups
- Purge the cache
- List account users
- Create a site
- Update a site
What the WP Engine API covers
6 resources and 22 documented actions, each one a call the HTTP Connector can make from a Tray.ai workflow. Connecting it takes a few clicks: here's how.
Sites
- List sites
- Create a site
- Update a site
- Delete a site
Installs
- List installs
- Create an install
- Update an install
- Copy an install
Domains
- List domains
- Create a domain
- Update a domain
- Delete a domain
Backups
- List backups
- Create a backup
- Restore a backup
Cache
- Purge the cache
- List cache exclusions
- Replace cache exclusions
Account users
- List account users
- Create an account user
- Update an account user
- Delete an account user
Checked against WP Engine's own documentation on 2026-11-07
How Tray.ai makes this work
WP Engine plugs into the whole Tray.ai platform
Intelligent Integration
Integrate and automate across 10,000+ apps, databases, APIs, and services with visual workflows, error handling, and observability.
Learn more →Agent Builder
Build AI agents that read, write, and take action in WP Engine — with guardrails, audit, and human-in-the-loop.
Learn more →Agent Gateway for MCP
Expose WP Engine actions as governed MCP tools — observable, rate-limited, authenticated.
Learn more →Tray Helix
Build apps on WP Engine data with your AI assistant, then deploy, run, and govern them on Tray.ai.
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Frequently asked questions
What can a Tray.ai workflow do in WP Engine?
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The WP Engine API documents 22 actions across 6 resources (Sites, Installs, Domains, Backups, Cache, Account users). For example: List sites; List installs; List domains. A workflow can make any documented call through the HTTP Connector.
How does Tray.ai authenticate with WP Engine?
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The WP Engine API uses basic authentication. You save it once as a Tray.ai authentication, and the HTTP Connector adds it to every request.
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