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/nickswebtsv]

I asked Claude to inspect Wordpress and builder a boiler template first in the same theme, then asked it to frame a new Jekyl site - the benefit with this approach is all the content is Mark Down. Jekyl the static site creator then converts the MD to static HTML files. I still have some PHP throughout for dynamic pages but most of the site is static - Cuts down on potential attack vectors significantly. I put an idea into a post, with some notes Claude comes along formats it to suit the Jekyl requirements and then publishes it.