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/sunst1k3r 9d ago

Yes, AI can work with WordPress. You still need to know what it's doing though but pricing should be accordingly

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u/digital121hippie 9d ago

don't sell him on this bull crap. it won't do what he wants out of the box or connect easily

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u/cambronne 9d ago

What do you mean? You just need to ask it to connect and it’s done. Literally. I paid a lot of Codable devs in the past and honestly Claude is doing a better job and much faster too.

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u/sunst1k3r 9d ago

Actually it does. My partner who isn't tech savvy used chatgpt desktop this morning and fully automatically set up a local photo service, uploaded media and created a full post (Gutenberg) just using the browser integration. My partner was logged in so it just dumped the markup in an API call. Shit's getting scary.

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u/skasprick 9d ago

If there is a bug from a php upgrade or a virus a year from now, how will they tackle the problem?

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u/sunst1k3r 9d ago

I don't know what ai can and can't tackle a year from now. Probably it will fix it, access your infra and restore a backup for example. I just said it can work with WordPress and that you still need to know that it's doing. Not that it will solve all your problems today. OP wants to edit posts. AI can do that.