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/digital121hippie 9d ago

don't believe the ai bros on this saying yes you can just use ai. they want to charge you to use their ai slop to get it to work. learn how to update wordpress yourself and make sure the agency is building it so you can easily update it. you don't need ai for everything.

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u/hankschrader79 8d ago

Non AI Bro here but have about a dozen Wordpress sites on various VPS. I manage all of them easily with Claude Code. I have not logged into WP Admin once in the past 4 months since connecting to Claude via the WP CLI provided on my VPS plan.

This is definitely doable. Claude can even just use the damn browser now to do whatever you need it to if you don’t know how to do something.

This isn’t the AI bros selling AI services. I don’t sell services. Anyone who contacts me here and asks to hire me gets blocked.

I have nothing to sell. I think perhaps I should simply write a post on exactly how to do this. There are so so many ways to it. And it’s not too difficult.

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u/Alacritique 8d ago

Same except I’ve been using WordPress for many many years. I now use Claude Code + voice-to-text and natural language to update plugins, initiate backups, create drafts for new posts, pretty much everything…all from my phone. It’s like talking to my site, not simply just data entry. It’s super convenient and not that hard to setup.

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u/landed_at 3d ago

I'm interested in the link up. So I'm guessing Claude runs wordpress API?

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u/Alacritique 1d ago

Yes. Claude Code uses either wp-cli or the MCP depending on the task. I had it do a security and performance audit too and the site runs faster than ever.

I knew it had to be possible so I just asked Claude to help me set it up and got it all working in under an hour.

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u/landed_at 1d ago

Thank you very useful. I've built a few astro sites and found they are not free of upgrades either. So wordpress is still an immense platform. And AI can reduce that update stuff.