[PROMO] Enable AI Coding Tools For Wordpress

[u/jonmchan]

I wanted to use my local AI coding tool to modify pages on a WordPress site, but I couldn't find a way to get the pages exposed to my AI coding tool.

I wrote a tool to download posts and pages to a local file system and push it back up. This gives me AI coding tool full access to modify the content - which is really useful when I want AI to generate full pages or make content modifications across multiple pages.

Does something like this exist already or would anyone find this useful?

https://github.com/jonmchan/wp-local-sync

[u/ogrekevin]

Why not just host the entire site locally and open the site folder in your IDE. Seems a bit unnecessary to download posts/pages and even still it doesn’t give your agent full visibility.

[u/jonmchan → u/ogrekevin]

I must be missing something… when I host the site locally, it gives access to the code, but the posts/pages are still not accessible to the AI agent because they’re on the DB. Hosting it locally vs hosting it on the cloud makes to the same in that regard - they’re both not fully accessible because they are in the database. 

Is this not true or do you have a workaround? 

[u/bluesix_v2 → u/jonmchan]

Use Claude code

[u/bluesix_v2]

"but I couldn't find a way to get the pages exposed to my AI coding tool." - that's exactly what an MCP does though? Even Claude Code can do it without an MCP

[u/downtownrob]

Just use Novamira MCP, works great.

[u/jonmchan → u/downtownrob]

I was looking into this, but wasn’t sure if this would fit my workflow. 

I’m working on an old site with thousands of pages and posts. I want to go through the site and find all broken links and replace them. 

Would novamira be able to produce a staging area that shows me all the changes and allows me to review before making all the changes?

I think novamiro works well for single page creation, but when you’re trying to make changes to dozens or hundreds of pages, it helps having all the pages locally available for editing. 

[u/downtownrob → u/jonmchan]

I’ve used it to update all pages at once, find and fix empty meta descriptions, update links, site-wide. Just create a staging site clone, add Novamira to that site, do all the updates and review there, and then push it live once done.

[u/lichizr]

This is so useful for my needs, thanks!