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Someone on Reddit asked if it's fine to have Claude build a full WordPress news theme and just upload it. The answer is yes, with conditions most people will ignore.
For a news magazine site, a hand-coded lightweight theme will outperform any Elementor or WPBakery build. No widget bloat, no 40 enqueued scripts, no render-blocking CSS from a builder you only used for two sections. Core Web Vitals stop being a fight.
The catch is what most people skip. AI-generated themes routinely miss nonce verification on forms, sanitize_text_field on inputs, proper escaping on output, and translation-ready strings. They also tend to hardcode things that should sit in the customizer or ACF. Upload that to production and you have a security incident waiting for a slow Tuesday.
I did a Next.js marketing site recently for a returning client using Claude Code; pinned-scroll sections, waitlist form, custom domain on Vercel. Worked beautifully. But I read every file before it shipped.
If you're going this route on WordPress: have Claude generate the theme, then audit functions.php, every form handler, and every $_GET or $_POST touchpoint. Run it through Query Monitor. Check the template hierarchy is actually being used and not bypassed by hardcoded includes.
The speed gain is real. The risk is real too. Neither cancels the other out.
For those building themes with AI now, are you reviewing the security layer line by line, or trusting the output?
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Built a fully customizable website template for an IT solutions client.
Their old website had the classic Humaaans-era aesthetic. We completely flipped the direction. When we showed them the new direction, they said this is completely different from what they expected. And a few days later their board said they unanimously loved it.
As designers, sometimes our biggest job is breaking the client's mental model and challenging the brief.
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Template #3 coming along nicely. Almost finished all pages design and animation prototypes.
For some reason I am still doing most of prototyping not directly in framer but directly in claude code
Cool 😍
Not everything I build lives in Framer.
This one's a code project: I rebuilt Payy's React marketing site — a stablecoin payments company — from the front-end up. New typography system, a reusable motion foundation (scroll reveals, animated stats, page transitions), a handful of custom components, and a footer with proper parallax. All hand-written, no UI framework doing the heavy lifting.
I ran the whole build through Claude Code, which is where 15 years of front-end experience actually pays off — I'm not prompting and hoping. I know what good motion feels like, how to keep things performant and accessible, and where the real work is. The AI moves fast; the engineering judgment is mine. I also work fluently with MCPs like the Figma MCP, so I can pull straight from design files into clean, accurate code.
If you've got a Figma design that needs to become a real, performant site — in React, not just Framer — that's squarely my lane. Happy to talk through what you're building.
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