Create location is a WordPress ability from LatePoint — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
Install Free Plugin →Create location
WriteCreate a new business location that services can be offered from and agents can be assigned to.
Requires the LatePoint plugin on WordPress 6.9+ (the WordPress Abilities API is only available from 6.9 onward). All abilities also require the site's 'latepoint_abilities_api' master toggle to be enabled; write abilities additionally require the 'latepoint_abilities_api_edit' setting, and destructive abilities additionally require the 'latepoint_abilities_api_delete' setting. Each ability further requires the current user to hold the matching LatePoint capability (e.g. 'booking__view', 'customer__edit'), and some abilities also verify the user is allowed to act on that specific record.
What it does
This ability creates a new LatePoint location record. It requires a name and lets you optionally set the initial status (active or disabled, defaulting to active) and a category ID. The input schema also accepts description, address, phone, and email, but the current execute() logic only persists name, status, address, and category_id — the description, phone, and email values are not saved. On success it returns the newly created location's full serialized record, including its assigned ID and timestamps.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Create a new active location called 'Downtown Studio' under category 3."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | string | Yes | Location name. |
| description | string | No | Location description. |
| address | string | No | Street address. |
| phone | string | No | Phone number. |
| string | No | Email address. | |
| category_id | integer | No | Category ID to assign the location to. |
| status | string | No | Initial status (active or disabled). Defaults to active. |
Returns
The newly created location as a serialized object (id, name, description, status, address, phone, email, category_id, created_at, updated_at); returns an error if the save fails.
Permission
The current user must have LatePoint's 'location__create' capability, and both the 'latepoint_abilities_api' and 'latepoint_abilities_api_edit' settings must be enabled.
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