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points by StephenTynan789 2 days ago | 0 comments

seems like these days ai can create a better design layout and backend than WordPress in significantly less time. It's lost its edge in spinning up semi-complicated websites quickly. Any site I can create on wordpress I could have Ai replicate or recreate in a matter of hours.

[–] marcus_holmes 2 days ago

This. I now get Claude to spin up sites as needed, with dynamic functionality using vanilla JS and CSS. No frameworks, no CMS, nothing. If it needs a server and database then there's a ton to choose from, I'm currently using Cloudflare Workers and D1 but that could change in an instant to any similar service. Posting a new page is a matter of editing the text and images and then asking Claude to upload it and format it properly. 2 minutes' work.

[–] nicman23 1 day ago

the issue is that people are not using wordpress for blog style things but for e-shops

[–] StephenTynan789 1 day ago

I understand this is where WordPress originated and excels, but the time and cost to set it up are still high. If I were a business owner and I could pay someone 2500 to set up a good blog or news site, etc on WordPress. I would get a great result I would be happy with. The problem is I can pay some young kid with a laptop $500, and they can replicate someone else's existing blog, etc and change the CSS slightly; it will look and function the same.

I think it's hard to compete on initial setup when someone is using Claude. Now for expensive projects where the client has the budget for a custom site and a real design team. I think WordPress is fine. But at that point, my question would be why? You have the resources to code by hand at that point.