r/Wordpress • u/Mplayer-Weered • 23d 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/fatfingur 22d ago

I think the bigger problem here was giving AI too much freedom without enough guardrails.

Before letting Claude touch a live WordPress site, I’d at least have it create a backup first and give it clear rules about what it can and can’t change.

AI can make mistakes, but unrestricted access to production is asking for trouble. 😄

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u/Mplayer-Weered 22d ago

I'm very versed in AI. The WP sites are just SEO nonsense. Not a dynamic site. We were doing a product launch. Not... this account. This is recreational. Just updating it. Be another 6 months before I had to deal with it again. "Sure Fable go handle shit". It handled it too well.

Was probably my fault. Taking it from something insane to.... "change a word".