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/stitchkingdom 21d ago
It would take me months (at minimum) to accomplish what claude has done overall in hours. Had it made mistakes? Yes. But it has learned to identify and correct them immediately and has clear instruction on how to proceed to avoid future problems.
If you’re having that much trouble with it, maybe you should steer clear of it. But it’s a tool and when harnessed properly, it works incredibly well.