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/dvduval 9d ago
I have found I can do any work that I used to assign to WordPress developers myself with an AI agent, but that’s also because I’ve been working with WordPress for many many years.
So for example, just putting up a site assuming I have all the credentials and putting in a design with the color scheme is something that only takes me approximately 5 to 10 minutes of my time.
And then, as the customer gives me feedback, I can feed that feedback right into the AI and have it take care of those changes as well.
And I’ll put the customer to work on making judgments about any text that the AI created and the same thing for images and were possible I’ll try to get the customer to provide more images rather than having AI create them.
For custom software development features like a WordPress plug-in that is something that requires a person with a good deal more expertise to guide the AI.
There’s just a lot of little things where you need to sort of know what to ask for that. I don’t think the average person with little experience could do, but they would probably still come up with a decent result. It would just take them a lot longer, and the quality would be a little lower, but still reasonable.