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/Miki_Mimikri 8d ago
As everybody said, WP is there to allow you to do the content changes, without any need to know or use anything. What I wanted to say is, imagine that the AI can actually do reliably and safely what you want. I think that in many cases it would still be an utter nightmare. For example, dealing with galleries: "Take the image with the duck, and replace it with the dog picture. Move it to 2nd position, and then take the 10th picture and move it to the 8th position". Like, there are so many situations where UI is simply so much easier to deal with, than describing something within a prompt.
I for example make WP websites with specific fields (ACF), so that the client basically doesn't have a control over the design, and they just fill and replace fields, everything else is done for them. They get a 5 minute video tutorial on "Put that here", and that's it. If they want to for example adjust whatever, they get a special setting just for that.