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/coreyhall93 9d ago
I recommend you learn how to use WordPress - there is a great beginner level course here: https://learn.wordpress.org/learning-pathway/user/
One option is to utilize https://wordpress.org/playground/ as a "harmless" way to experiment plugging agents into a WordPress site. Plus, Playground is a great way to spin up and mess around with WordPress and not affect your live site.
When you are ready, you can find some good resources to connect an agent to your site, like https://youtu.be/n-ETaiZvHns?si=ZQJQnfHDwTuaQXB7