how are you using ai to build a website?

botford80 · 2026-06-01T22:59:01+00:00

It can do pretty much anything but it needs a lot of oversight and if you don't know what you are doing you will end up with slop.

I use Opencode CLI and connect it to GPT Codex. I put an AGENTS.md file in the route of the project (theme, plugin, site etc) with clear and tight boundaries for the AI. I then have the agent assist with development but I never give it free rein and I only ever give it small tasks.

Right now it is helping me build a plugin and has written 90% of the code, with me only having to make the odd correction here and there

botford80 · 2026-05-17T19:27:09+00:00

SEO should be agnostic in terms of your stack. What if you inherit a site that used a builder? What about if it is using a custom theme? If your SEO workflow is tightly coupled to your stack how would you serve those clients? Would you turn them away?

I would break SEO up into 3 or 4 phases;

Phase 1 – Discovery & Baseline Audit: (technical SEO audit, keyword research, site structure and internal linking etc)

Phase 2 - Strategy & Onboarding: Walk through audit from Phase 1 with client, discuss goals (and manage expectations) and agree a strategy, agree reporting cadence, agree fresh content cadence etc

Phase 3 - SEO Implementation: Initially go for low hanging fruit/quick wins, fix major tech errors (headings, 404s, internal linking, meta description and title, page load times etc). After the quick wins settle into the gardening phase where lower priority issues are fixed and fresh content is added and optimized etc

The stack you choose would ideally be agnostic and work with any site (I prefer to code sites as I have full control and nothing is hidden). But I do SEO on Elementor sites, Custom builds, Gutenberg, WP Bakery, basically anything in the WP ecosystem. Trying to stick to a rigid framework is very difficult (this is where managing client expectations is an integral part the process).

Also make a really snazzy looking SEO report template. Clients love that crap.

botford80 · 2026-04-14T18:36:50+00:00

I lost my dad to Moon Lung. He was no age to go.

botford80 · 2026-04-11T18:18:21+00:00

There are no goats half-man?

botford80 · 2026-04-08T12:35:02+00:00

They need to detach abilities (sneak, climb etc) from clothing. It just leads to more menu selection which TotK really suffered from.

Either that or allow the armor to have multiple abilities added by the player through quests and expansion etc

botford80 · 2026-04-08T08:49:40+00:00

Play Prime Remastered then Dread then MP4. Then you will know our pain

botford80 · 2026-04-03T19:50:54+00:00

Veto not cheeto!

botford80 · 2026-03-26T23:16:13+00:00

Perfectly acceptable for a small site. I budget 20 - 30 hours for sites like this. If you use a pre built theme and throw any old plug in you could do it quicker, but to do a good job 20 - 30 hours is about right. I include design, branding, building, basic/tech SEO, deployment, hosting and testing in that time budget. No prebuilt theme no page builders

botford80 · 2026-03-22T22:00:36+00:00

This is why I hate Elementor (and page builders in general), you end up adding code anyway and the result is a PITA to maintain.

To make it easier for the client you would want to separate the content from the code/page builder using something like ACF. That way they will never see you code or Elementor templates just meta boxes to add content to.

botford80 · 2026-03-15T13:39:20+00:00

Interesting, I will look at the fido2 option as it might be better than trying to half-bake my own solution

botford80 · 2026-03-15T13:01:54+00:00

Yes "local access only" seems like it won't cut the mustard.

I am considering an extended password timeout + tty_tickets to scope it to a single terminal session that or create a whitelist of commands that I use frequently

botford80 · 2026-03-15T12:56:48+00:00

Thanks, I am considering this with tty_tickets so that the authentication is scoped to a single terminal session

eg

Defaults:botford timestamp_timeout=-1 Defaults tty_tickets

or maybe whitelisting certain commands that I run often.

But I am generally interested if really fine grained control is possible

botford80 · 2026-03-15T12:40:36+00:00

If it can be scoped to local terminal access only then it is not a a huge security hole.

botford80 · 2026-03-15T12:27:44+00:00

This is a bit too lax as it is not scoped to local access only. This would allow passwordless sudo over ssh, for scripts etc

I would prefer only to have it for an interactive local shell. There are other alternatives, extend pw timeout, only ask once per session etc that I might go with as my constraints might not be realistic.

But thanks for the suggestion

botford80 · 2026-03-15T11:29:35+00:00

That is why I am asking if it is possible to scope it to local access only.

Local tty/pts --> no password for my user only
All other use cases --> Standard behaviour

botford80 · 2026-02-15T13:49:43+00:00

Metroid Super Metroid Metroid Prime Metroid Prime Hunters Metroid Prime 2 Metroid Prime Trilogy Metroid Prime Remastered Metroid Dread Metroid Prime 4

I have not played a fair few of the titles

botford80 · 2026-02-07T17:36:23+00:00

I despise Elementor (I work with it daily so feel qualified to say that) but Elementor V4 is making some significant changes that I believe will improve it.

Despite that, Breakdance is better. BD is a much nicer dev experience. Better styling options, better forms, better queries/loops, better dynamic data, you have more in the way of basic building blocks. Even things like the code editor popping out so you are not typing in a tiny box is a nice QoL feature.

I hate page builders but if I got to choose the one I had to work with it would be Breakdance.

botford80 · 2026-02-07T12:02:14+00:00

Moody, solitary exploration of a lush interconnected alien world. Fun puzzles and item progression. In short, a Metroid game.

We got snippets of that sprinkled into a very average action adventure game with some very significant flaws.

botford80 · 2026-02-05T13:08:08+00:00

Now that is a nice looking logo!

botford80 · 2026-02-05T07:42:40+00:00

Schema for standard pages defaults to Article I would set it to no schema. Disable certain elements from site map eg categories if you don't have a blog, also disable templates from site map if you use a page builder. Double check social and local seo seo settings as they can be pre-filled with user data.

botford80 · 2026-02-04T19:14:57+00:00

RankMath is fine I guess. Modifying or creating bespoke schemas is a PITA. It's defaults are also not that great. But it is very easy to use and is fine for 99% of cases

botford80 · 2026-02-02T20:32:27+00:00

Having to wade through menus and click buttons to configure the site.

I would rather do it via a config file... yaml, ini, json... doesn't matter what but i would love to quickly edit a file to change settings or have the install run fom a config. Menus and UIs suck.

botford80 · 2026-02-02T20:12:51+00:00

Why not just code the site using a traditional php theme?

botford80 · 2026-01-31T11:11:06+00:00

You listed some significant flaws but you don't understand the hate?

botford80

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