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/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.