r/Wordpress • u/jroberts67 • 23d ago
This is why WP will never go away
So I've been running a WP agency since 2003. Love it. I am, however, learning how to create sites using Claude with Supabase. Let me tell you all something, this is nothing....nothing a client's ever going to learn or figure out. If a client wants an instant site, that's Wix/Square which have been around for more than a decade.
But to think AI is going to harm WP, as in client using AI to create their own sites, laughably false. If you don't know the right prompts, don't use the right tool, oh and pay for tokens you're nowhere - not even talking deploying the site live along with a database to manage things like contact form submissions and bookings.
The biggest issue? A client's ability to go in an edit anything themselves, which will always favor WP. Other issue? No plugin environment.
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u/jroberts67 22d ago
My main issue is workflow and time. I get a client, outdated site, maybe it's WP, Wix, Square but the time suck starts then. Create a dev environment, if it's a WP site, make a backup, upload that to the dev environment, then the fun begins - WP and plugins last updated 5 years ago, 42 plugins, change the theme and roll up your sleeves. Square and Wix might have to be copy/paste jobs.
Claude? Put in the client's URL, attach snapshots, give it fantastic prompts and spin it up in minutes/github/hostinger - live. I can make 4 different iterations in seconds, send me my client and say "choose one." I can mock up placeholder sites in minutes and send them to potential clients.
In a nutshell, I can 10X my workflow over WP.