April 2026
One of the most useful things I learned building this blog was understanding exactly what Claude could do directly, what needed me to do it, and what needed someone else entirely. Getting this wrong costs energy. Getting it right saves a lot of it.
This is the honest list.
What Claude can do directly
Writing and drafting
Claude can draft any post, page, or document from a conversation. You talk, it writes. You tell it what is wrong, it changes it. Nothing goes anywhere until you approve it.
Publishing to WordPress
Once you are happy with a draft, Claude can push it directly to your WordPress blog — as a draft for you to review, or published immediately if you confirm. It can also update existing pages and posts.
Creating pages and sections
Claude can create the pages that make up your website — homepage, about page, section pages, resources page. All done from a conversation without you touching WordPress directly.
Setting up categories and tags
Claude can create the categories that organise your blog sections and add tags to posts to help search engines find them.
Creating Craft documents
During any conversation, Claude can create and update notes in your Craft app in the background. Ideas are captured as you think them, without you having to open a separate app.
Checking what is on your site
Claude can read your WordPress site — see what posts exist, check categories, verify that pages are published correctly. Useful for troubleshooting.
Creating downloadable documents
Claude can produce Word documents from scratch and help you get them ready to upload as downloads on your website.
Research and fact-checking
Claude can search the internet to verify facts, check current prices, confirm recent news, and make sure information in posts is accurate before publishing.
What Claude cannot do — you need to do these
The publish button
Claude can publish posts directly if you ask it to. But by default it creates drafts first so you can review before anything goes live. You can choose either way — the control is yours.
Uploading files to your media library
Claude cannot upload images or documents directly to WordPress. You do that through your WordPress dashboard, then Claude can link to them.
Setting up your navigation menu
Claude cannot edit the navigation menu directly. You do that in Appearance, Editor in your WordPress dashboard.
Choosing and applying a theme
Claude can advise on which theme to pick but cannot apply it. You select and activate themes from your WordPress dashboard.
Logging into accounts on your behalf
Claude cannot create WordPress accounts, Gmail accounts, or subscriptions for you. Those require your own login and payment details.
What nobody can do yet
Automatically add images to posts. Claude can tell you where to find a good image and describe what would work, but inserting them requires you to upload and place them manually for now.
Manage comments on your behalf without you seeing them first. Claude can read comments but moderation decisions are yours.
The practical upshot
For most of the work of running a blog — writing, publishing, organising, updating — Claude can do it from a conversation while you sit on the sofa. The things that still need you are mostly one-off setup tasks or deliberate decisions that should be yours anyway.
Keeping control of the publish button is good practice. Everything else is overhead.
Written in conversation with Claude. The capabilities described are accurate as of April 2026 and will expand over time.
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