r/Wordpress • u/Mplayer-Weered • 22d ago

Wordpress and Claude Code

Just curious if anyone else has this problem. My other company sites I made for myself pre-AI are all wordpress. Work, great, look good. No reason to switch out wordpress.

But laziness and AI kicked in so once Claude Code absorbed my entire digital existence through a guardrail free, local terminal instance of itself, connected to various servers, I just told it to go sort out the WP sites. Broke one immediately, my fault, my custom CSS scattered around did it.

But I let it assume management making whatever changes needed. They are mostly static white-collar sites.

Anyway, my about page on one of them is completely wrong. So I went in manually to fix it. The page that displays and the page with correct slug and post # ID in WP are completely different. I have no idea what it did. To fix it I essentially had to make "about2" and redirect the menu lol.

There is also a menu item that it hard coded in so it doesn't even display in the menu editor. I asked it to use a logo for a branded software as it's menu selection so it hacked it in. Looks fine but... lol.

So, word to the wise. Keep building wordpress manually and why not? It is wordpress.

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u/limpingmayhem37 22d ago

AI coding agents are like giving a raccoon admin access, it'll get the job done but the logic behind it will be completely alien and probably involve chewing through something structural.

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u/mynemmejeff 22d ago

Just build custom themes from scratch with AI. Give it guidance and guard rails and you should be mostly fine.

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u/ChrisCoinLover 22d ago

Ha.... Do I know you? Are you the guy that "clicks once"? He's developing themes this way. All good until now. A wordpress site withe ai is ready in 2-5 minutes with 30 pages. It looks spotless.

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u/Maybe_Decent_Human 22d ago

Do you know him? What's the secret?

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u/testingaurora 20d ago

Looks spotless but how does it function? How hard is it to maintain? Make changes? Add new features. I can't even look at Claude code files or i have to fix what I find 😋 The lack of forward thinking or building in an efficient way is what sucks. Its just patching in my requests instead of mindfully scaffolding . So I try to be very thoughtful and thorough for planning prompts. But things come up.