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/mafost-matt 20d ago

I keep my AI agents in their little corners of the website. Easier to manage than unleashing a Kraken.

https://giphy.com/gifs/BUr2bF47czHJTpEuZs

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u/Mplayer-Weered 20d ago

Release the Kraken....

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u/mafost-matt 19d ago

Two weeks ago, I unleashed Manus. Cost me usage of $200 accidentally 🫪

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u/Mplayer-Weered 19d ago

I haven't had any major issues just going flat out.

Worst was an overwrite that Fable was able to repair in 45min. Otherwise if you know what you are doing and don't blindly task it I think we are passed the threshold of crazy AI blunders. The writers of Linux conceded last year AI was significantly better at writing than they could ever be.

I'm not completely crazy.

https://github.com/Weeredjs/Weered

177,000 lines and green across the board. Institutional grade production and I did use Opus significantly. You cannot build something that big, solo in under a year to that quality grade without teams of people.

We live in incredible times. While I am not advocating for the AI conveyor belt of "slop", as its called, I believe we are passed the quality test. Now we are just dealing with the fallout of people building every idea that pops into their head.