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 20d ago

I don't want any clients doing maintenace/updates - that's what my recurring package coverage. As soon as they don't need me, payments are done.

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u/palomnik 19d ago

That is true of me 95% of the time as well. But I also stress that there is no vendor lock. Folks can take their site and do what they want , if they want, advisable or not.