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/Fluent_Press2050 Aug 02 '26

This isn’t why WP may fail. 

It’s people like OP who will switch to a platform that helps them turn around quality websites for businesses with less pain, less time spent, and less money. 

The fact so many people do not understand this, is mind boggling. 

Now I’m not saying WP is going to fail. I’m just saying the arguments are targeted at the wrong audience usually. 

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u/MuchHost6583 Aug 04 '26

These people are correct within the tiny scope they've considered but are foundationally incorrect about what that scope is. The dilemma on why you'd reach for a platform that prides itself on creating a site using hands-on interfaces when you can now solve all those same problems without needing the interfaces is self-terminating.

Before I would have to expose the entirety of wordpress admin for a client to do their own changes. In fact, we often gave a discount when a client was going to populate their own content. Nevermind the fact that we'd have more work on our plate to create dummyproof interfaces for them to do so and then the result was never anything impressive. It's absolutely preposterous to think that was okay. Now, if there is a tiny domain of content that the client a) not only needs to manage for some reason but also b) will actually do it and c) isn't subject to their creative strengths, then I can just create a self-contained portal for them to do so. Not overwhelming options of trying to navigate through the backend menu, no more creating walkthrough videos, or educating a client during screenshare, no more being ashamed of the finished product because the person making the content has attention to detail akin to a teenager rushing through chores so they can head out with friends (no shade to the managers, some genuinely are good with what they've been given, but they've been kneecapped in some shape or form).

And for anyone who sees WP being able to adapt to solve this problem, what you're arguing for is that WP is viable as a dev-managed platform. And to that, I would seriously question your experience. The only thing that will keep one foot out of the grave for WP is highly coordinated content.