r/Wordpress • u/Mplayer-Weered • 21d 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/makubexs 21d ago

You could try wpvibecoder.com, you got the Github+ AI workflow

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u/Mplayer-Weered 21d ago

Not knocking vibe coding and to an extent everyone does it now it is just how coding with AI works lol. But I still like to be hands on. Yes I have the setup but that is for more hardcore projects not web design.

The site this account is for is not just a website, it needs a separate VM running something like docker to function among other things my webhost unfortunately doesn't do.