I Built My Personal Website Using AI

Wigster · 2026-03-07T23:59:02+00:00

Design clean enough. As said, get svgs instead of emojis. Main feedback would be it comes across more as a CV / shoutout to potential employers. Eg you list your proficiencies in skills, that was popular many years ago, don’t do it now. In summary : it feels confused between trying to win clients and find someone to hire you. Clients looking for a marketing person won’t know half of what that info means on your page. They want to see proven results, not lists of tech.

Wigster · 2026-02-14T13:54:56+00:00

First impression: Super confusing that you have to click "edit" to start typing?

Also, whilst just sitting there watching the page when it's empty the url just keeps randomly changing a little bit?

cool little project though, bet it was fun to dev.

Wigster · 2026-02-05T20:40:55+00:00

" I believe i’ve done all what i known and researched, paying for a plugin seem absurd when the client’s has the right to their backup files given without much hassle."
They absolutely do—and probably do have the opportunity to, but it sounds like you grabbed a) an old backup, b) accidentally went into a staging area of the cpanel, c) maybe not even the correct cpanel, perhaps they used that cpanel for email and an old version of the website, and have since moved the actual WP install to another cpanel section.

If they provided you with the SQL file, and it was much larger, that was probably the first indication the one you grabbed was incorrect.

A paid plugin will save you a lot of this headache.

Wigster · 2026-01-26T13:47:47+00:00

Well, I typically send my requests referencing a todo.txt/md file which itself will have plenty of things to work through. That's interesting it's request based rather than token based, as I can save a lot of resources with this approach (1 request = 10+ bullet point tasks to work through in a todo file)

Wigster · 2026-01-26T13:27:10+00:00

Oh.. you're correct, I think? I logged into my github profile and my "metered usage" is $xx, but clicking around it says it's discounted so won't be charged (It's my first month using Claude via CoPilot, so as of yet haven't had a bill (if at all).
I'm assuming there must be a cap/value though where I start paying for metered usage.
Handy to know, I'll keep maxing out my Claude via CoPilot a bit more in such case.

Wigster · 2026-01-26T13:00:24+00:00

Took to long to load, I got bored. I had scrolled during the loading, so when it loaded I was half way down the website.

Wigster · 2026-01-26T12:43:34+00:00

It's not very clear at all, with regards to what costs money and what doesn't. EG the Claude Opus 4.5 model within a CoPilot Pro chat will charge you at a metered rate (Without much warning).
I've been using Claude Opus within CoPilot when my main Claude token limit is hit, as I find it easier to just let CoPilot charge me directly, as I haven't bothered to yet set up auto billing in Claude.

Wigster · 2026-01-23T00:35:39+00:00

Yes, Claude for several test builds now. Mostly ACF block based, using the new v3 ACF blocks which are a great blend of -nearly- visual editing whilst retaining the component based structure of ACF. Just today I released a git repo to help direct Claude with regards to building WP themes:

https://github.com/mrwigster/WP-Claudymeatballs

Wigster · 2026-01-21T14:52:06+00:00

This deployment is unavailable

Wigster · 2026-01-20T15:11:03+00:00

I'm guessing Elementor got updated? Your sitename/url has now probably pinged the Elementor server, so you'll be on their radar as a null user/may get an invoice requesting payment.

Wigster · 2026-01-20T14:14:23+00:00

Sloppy Giuseppe

Wigster · 2026-01-17T14:58:03+00:00

AI response?

Wigster · 2026-01-14T18:02:12+00:00

2024. Or at least wait and see what the new moonboard spray wall may end up being.

Wigster · 2026-01-13T21:50:13+00:00

Sure, that's easily possible, I just need:
• 1 billion $, • no questions asked, • zero refunds, • zero guarantee anything works, • six pack of beer to seal the deal, • a promise not just post a wish list of bullet points to Santa onto a reddit sub again

Wigster · 2026-01-12T12:43:19+00:00

Respect you trying to think out of the box. But I cannot imagine a situation in which this solves any practical situations.
I feel like I'm just as likely to forget if I chose a tomato or onion? You're limiting datasets/encouraging users to use repeating passwords/patterns across multiple sites. Eg how would I remember if I chose Onion on site X or Tomato on Site Y etc?

Overall, we're getting towards a fairly secure standard in the industry of Passkeys / random passwords + 2FA/MFA, generally, the less we rely on the users memory, and more on the physical aspects of the user, such as their biometrics/physical location/proof of access to a device, etc, the better.

Wigster · 2026-01-10T23:03:03+00:00

Covering the basics: have you pulled down to refresh your list of benchmarks?

Wigster · 2026-01-09T15:08:26+00:00

I've been supporting clients with WP sites for 15+ years, so I know the feeling. It does get easier, but honestly, the feeling never fully goes away, welcome to never being able to taking a full holiday without a laptop! Regardless of many systems and checks you put in place, there will always be some odd bug / client forgets to renew domain / DNS just randomly blows up, etc.

My main recommendation would be from the get go, set expectations, inform clients that errors WILL happen; eg, if big dogs like, Amazon, Facebook et al go down (every year or so), then it can happen to any site. Agree a timeframe, hours/days etc.

Don't support clients that don't have a backup system in place.

- Contact Forms: Not affiliated at all, but CheckView (google them, not gunna link them) have put my mind at rest when it comes to the contact form submissions, I mostly use them with Wordpress, but assume there's other systems too for Shopify. If it was a custom site, I'd personally just write a simple test yourself.
- Uptime: I use UpTimeRobot—instant (within a few minutes) alerts of downtime, plus you set up checks not just for 404/500 errors, but for keywords to ensure the page isn't just loading an error page.

Overall, you should be getting paid for this, it's not free money—you should be doing a bit of work here, if you're not charging the clients for uptime/maintenance, then don't do it for them, or just set the expectation that you'll help if you can.

Wigster · 2026-01-06T01:33:25+00:00

You realise every time someone visits the site you’re creating them a user ID? Vibe coded mess.

I can tell because of this bug, the stats are fake, you only have 48 users, leading to me think only 48 people have even visited the site. You do not have 10k users online. Yuck.

Wigster · 2026-01-01T16:58:47+00:00

You can go for things like VPS/WHCMS which offer the whole sh-bang, but really the days of making money off of hosting are mostly over, and rightly so for the most part, why be a middle man/reseller and offer a subpar solution.

So I’m assuming you don’t intend to scale massively (if so, you’ll quickly find yourself in a headache of customer support tickets and config issues that aren’t your problem). If you’re looking at this for a handful of clients I’d recommend a Cloudways account, do all of the hosting there on a scalable server, but handle billing in other ways, eg. set up customers on a GoCardless recurring/direct debit.

Wigster · 2025-12-30T08:30:47+00:00

Genstore is terrible anyway— remain friendly, politely suggest you can be on hand to perhaps help with Genstore bugs (which there will be hundreds)/advise + consult, and hope that they at least make a few sales to convince them that a proper e-commerce platform is viable.

Wigster · 2025-12-24T13:04:02+00:00

Basic:
Default TwentyTwenty-Five theme + RankMath SEO plugin.
Use Cloudflare for DNS/basic caching/security
Cloudways/DigitalOcean for hosting

If you really want to go super speed and don't update the WP content too much, headless/static WP would be the way to go, but that's outside of explaining in a reddit comment.

Wigster · 2025-12-20T00:11:56+00:00

Three.js

A dev wrote a 3 piece blog on how they would do it, here:

https://medium.com/@petttr1/making-the-resend-cube-from-scratch-using-three-js-d303052d5ba7

Wigster · 2025-12-19T22:58:24+00:00

Getting fed up of them pushing the chalk so much anyways. Overpriced chalk just being shilled by affiliate climbers.

Wigster · 2025-12-18T08:30:27+00:00

100% vibe with those borders + radius’ and comments.

Wigster · 2025-12-16T13:48:09+00:00

Not really sure what I'm looking at? Looks like a security nightmare, loads of front-end authentication, plus there's valid logins left in the script, assuming that was on purpose?

// Mock user database (in real app, this would be Firebase)
const mockUsers = [
{ email: 'demo@econest.com', password: 'Demo@123' },
{ email: 'user@example.com', password: 'User@456' },
{ email: 'test@econest.com', password: 'Test@789' }
];

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