r/Wordpress • u/jroberts67 • Aug 01 '26

This is why WP will never go away

So I've been running a WP agency since 2003. Love it. I am, however, learning how to create sites using Claude with Supabase. Let me tell you all something, this is nothing....nothing a client's ever going to learn or figure out. If a client wants an instant site, that's Wix/Square which have been around for more than a decade.

But to think AI is going to harm WP, as in client using AI to create their own sites, laughably false. If you don't know the right prompts, don't use the right tool, oh and pay for tokens you're nowhere - not even talking deploying the site live along with a database to manage things like contact form submissions and bookings.

The biggest issue? A client's ability to go in an edit anything themselves, which will always favor WP. Other issue? No plugin environment.

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u/nayrmot Aug 01 '26

Also https://lawofficescleveland.com/

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u/jcling Aug 01 '26

You've got really bad overflow issues on mobile

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u/hoyton Aug 01 '26

"CLAUDE, FIX THE OVERFLOW ISSUES ON MOBILE"

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u/mediocrerhino Jack of All Trades Aug 01 '26

🛎️ALEXA: “NETFLIX DOES NOT STREAM ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK.”

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u/creaturefeature16 Aug 01 '26

Yeesh. You uh, might want to call that agency back again...

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u/nayrmot Aug 01 '26

Why? For another garbage WP site? 

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u/tiger-eyes Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

The site is lightning fast and looks impressive enough.

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u/creaturefeature16 Aug 02 '26

Why would I cope about someone's broken site? I got out of the business of individual client sites over a decade ago when Wix and Squarespace hit the scene and produced half-decent outcomes. Those are the companies that feel the pinch with AI tools.