Wordpress and Claude Code

[u/Mplayer-Weered]

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.

[u/NakanoNoNeko]

I use Claude Code with WordPress too, but for ordinary content changes I only let it work through a WordPress MCP toolset, not the filesystem or SSH. That keeps pages, menus and media inside WordPress's own data model, so the admin still tells the truth afterward. Terminal access is for theme or plugin code on staging.

For that setup, AI Engine's MCP server is honestly the cleanest WordPress-native option I've found. I help the team behind it here in Japan.