Anyone building a professional WordPress portal today faces a decision that has been framed wrong for two years. The usual question is: should I do it myself or hire an agency? The right question is: how do I organize the iteration between myself, Claude, and the site so that the end result is something that can hold its own against both approaches — and doesn’t need either?
An honest observation to begin with
This website, the one you’re reading this text on, is the best example I can offer. A few hours ago, it consisted of 607 posts, an unused Editorials category, a NIS2 subcategory with exactly one single post, a scrambled feed mapping (the existing “BleepingComputer” import was actually pulling Krebs on Security posts, the “OpenAI News” import was pointing to BleepingComputer, and so on), posts with broken titles like “On the <dl>” and a language line that frayed between German headers and English posts.