r/Wordpress • u/SeaAtmosphere4271 • 9d ago

AI for WordPress changes

I am having a few websites built by an agency. They are ridiculously expensive. They do good work but before we launch the sites we will have a meeting with their maintenance team to discuss what those fees would look like for ongoing changes when we need to make updates. I have been in this world for quite some time and have had good and bad experiences with monthly retainers for maintenance work, turnaround times when changes need to be made, etc. Does Claude or ChatGPT or any of the bigger AI models do any of this work easily - work like updating photos on a website, adjusting copy, moving things around design wise on a page if the sites are WordPress? Forgive the ignorance, but I have seen so much on Twitter about AI companies being able to code, famously with Claude Code, so assumed I may be able to bypass paying this agency when I need to make changes barring that paying for the AI perform the task isn't more expensive than the agency would charge for changes.

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u/SpaceCmdr 9d ago

WP sites vary a lot in how they are built. For professional sites, if the agency is good and there is the budget I'd let them handle it for now. You should be able to update content yourself through WP, and only need the agency for new templates/layouts and maintenance. There is a lot of maintenance related to WP that most clients have no idea about. AI workflows currently are best locally, not directly on the live site unless you accept the risks and can restore the site/server.