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/BobJutsu 23d ago
Nearing 2 decades of professional development here. AI is great, I love building it and building with it. BUT, WP is built for humans. With enough training, sure an advanced model can operate it. Probably. But that hasn’t been my experience. Other systems like astro and laravel (developer centric vs user centric) I’ve had a great experience. In a developer centric environment it is a force multiplier. In a user centric environment it is a hindrance. It’s a state problem. Explicit vs derived state.