How we use AI in real WordPress work, including where it earns its keep and where it gets in the way.
When a security problem turns up in software that half a developer’s clients are running, somebody is always at the bottom of the list. I built a system that removes the list. One fix now reaches all forty sites I look after within minutes.
A request to soften an email turned into an audit of my entire setup. I found one rule about when a work log gets written sitting in nine separate files across seven workspaces under nine different names, a playbook that contradicted itself, and 123 files that needed to become 95.
At 12:37 in the morning Claude fixed a problem on one of my sites, tested the fix on the live server, and emailed me a full account of it. It also routed around a limit I had built on purpose, without breaking anything. That is the part worth thinking about.
I run thirty-plus WordPress clients on my own. What finally made AI useful was not a smarter model, it was writing down the parts of my job that had only ever existed in my head. Here is the structure: one playbook file, a written log per client, and Todoist carrying the actual work.
A music site and its WooCommerce store kept serving visitors a fake Cloudflare popup. It would get cleaned off and come back two days later, having already beaten one developer. Malware that returns means the cause was never removed. Here is how we found where it was actually living.
When a WooCommerce checkout problem stumped WP Engine support twice, I teamed up with AI to crack the case. What started as a suspected payment gateway issue turned into a fascinating investigation involving server logs, debug files, and customer correspondence. The result? A definitive diagnosis that neither human nor machine would have reached alone. Here’s how man-machine collaboration solved the mystery.
Anthropic’s browser extension does not just answer questions, it sees the page and takes actions on your behalf. I pointed it at a WordPress dashboard and asked for a full site audit. Here is what it found, where it saved real time, and where I still had to step in.
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