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WordPress and Claude: No, Yes, Maybe, No, No…and No

There is a difference between a writer and a content creator. It becomes obvious when you read WordPress’ recent post, “How to Slop Your Content in Five Steps.”

Actually, that’s not the title.

Claude the content creator

Whoever or whatever wrote WordPress’ post used a more AEO-friendly title: “How to Build an Endless Stream of Content Ideas with WordPress and Claude.”

And there are five steps.

  • Step 1: Connect Claude to your WordPress.com website.
  • Step 2: Ask Claude to review your website and find content gaps.
  • Step 3: Ask Claude to prioritize topics and create a content calendar.
  • Step 4: Create Claude-assisted outlines and articles.
  • Step 5: Ask Claude to add the article to WordPress.com.

Bredemarket the writer

Before I discuss these five steps, let me state two things specific to me that may not apply to you.

  • With one glaring exception, the Bredebot project. This is a highlighted experiment to see how far a well-prompted bot will go.

So my specific response to these steps is to consider the gap analysis in step 2. Bots are good at such analysis, but they have to be watched in case they don’t get their facts straight.

But I won’t give Claude the permission to write and post articles, or even any permissions on WordPress. This is a security issue, after all; how do YOU control site access for non-human identities?

In fact, I may not even use Claude for step 2, even if it’s the cool kid this week last I checked. I may use Gemini…or a thousand Bangladesh techies…or a million Pentiums…or Mika.

How you work with outside content creators

But what about you?

Before answering, take the five steps above and change the name “Claude” to Barney…or Bredemarket.

Would you give Barney or Bredemarket that power over your website?

Maybe…or maybe not.

How Bredemarket works with you

In the case of Bredemarket, I usually do NOT have direct access to my clients’ websites, sending them Word documents instead. And in the one instance where I did have website access, I left every one of my drafts in draft mode.

And when I perform a gap analysis, I present my client with choices and ask the client to choose the topic, or at least approve my suggested topic.

Because your website is not mine, or Mika’s…or Claude’s.

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Bredemarket Social Focus, March 29, 2026

After a month, I expanded things a bit.

Bredemarket is focusing on the channels that matter:

As of March 29

And no, the unsubscribable Instagram is not in my current mix.

Please Tell Us Why You Had To Hide Away For So Long

Remember when I originally shared this video?

Level 4 Detail.

Focusing on some things means not focusing on others.

With reason.

In the first 1 1/2 months of 2026, the Bredemarket blog received traffic from Bluesky.

1 view.

So I haven’t posted on Bluesky in a month.

Until today.

At https://bsky.app/profile/bredemarket.bsky.social

Let’s see if I can double my Bluesky to WordPress traffic.

A boy can dream.

Data Centers: NIMBY?

There are many controversial uses of land, one of which is data centers. And most of us use them.

When I use SaaS resources or generative AI tools, I’m making use of a data center…somewhere. For example, when I created the image at the top of this post with Google Gemini…and when I uploaded this post to WordPress so you could read it.

But what if the data center was next door to ME? Would I feel differently about data center use?

Warren County, Virginia (Front Royal) is more rural than other counties in the state, such as Fairfax County. And someone is proposing a data center in Warren County.

This prompted a letter to the editor from Cara Aldridge Young, a former high school classmate of mine. (And a talented editor herself, if your company needs one.) Young examined the negatives surrounding data centers:

“Data centers are not quiet, invisible neighbors. They are warehouse-scale buildings surrounded by substations, transmission lines, backup generators, cooling systems, security fencing, and 24-hour lighting. They require enormous amounts of electricity and millions of gallons of water for cooling. In a county that has already experienced drought restrictions and ongoing grid concerns, it’s fair to question whether we are equipped to support that scale of development without long-term environmental and infrastructure consequences.”

I don’t have a feel how Warren County will respond to this request; I haven’t visited Front Royal in decades. But Young presumably isn’t the only resident with concerns about power, water, and the environment.

But I’m sure there are counties that would welcome the economic development, the tax revenue, and the jobs. (Well, not that many jobs.)

On my side of the country, the big infrastructure concern is warehouses, such as the Amazon distribution center in Eastvale, California.

One of Amazon’s buildings in Eastvale, California.

But at least warehouses employ people.

A Brief Note to My WordPress Subscribers

I often reshare my posts on social media, but sometimes I don’t.

This post won’t be reshared on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, or anywhere else.

It’s specifically and only intended for Bredemarket’s WordPress subscribers.

The message?

Thank you.

If you’re of a certain age, enjoy this.

“Thank You,” Led Zeppelin. From Led Zeppelin II.

If you’re younger, enjoy this.

“Thank You,” Röyksopp. From The Inevitable End.

Impressionable Bots?

Update to my prior post: Google Analytics shows lower numbers for February 5.

Why?

Google Gemini suggests bots may be to blame.

The internet is full of “bots” (automated scripts from search engines or malicious actors).  

Google Analytics has an industry-leading database of known bots and filters them out very aggressively to give you “human” data.  

Jetpack also filters bots, but its list is different. Jetpack often catches fewer bots than Google, which usually results in Jetpack showing higher traffic numbers than GA.

Still unanswered: why did the bots swarm on that particular day?

Looks like disregarding the traffic is the correct choice.

When I Get Impressionable

Even with thousands of pages of blog posts, the Bredemarket website doesn’t get a ton of traffic.

But once a month or so, traffic jumps up dramatically for a single day.

For example:

  • On February 4, the site had 36 visitors and 50 views of 24 posts/pages.
February 4 statistics for bredemarket.com.
  • The next day, February 5, site stats zoomed up to 436 visitors and 817 views of hundreds of posts/pages.
February 5 statistics for bredemarket.com.

No idea why. Unlike April-May 2025, it wasn’t any individual post/page. No individual page had more than 16 views. And no identified source (Facebook, search engines, etc.) accounts for the jump.

If I knew why these surges happened, I’d try to make it happen more than once a month.

But for now I disregard them.

(All times Pacific.)

Update here.

Conceptualization of the Planet Bredemarket and Its Rings

Inspired by the Constant Contact session I attended at the Small Business Expo, I wanted to conceptualize the Bredemarket online presence, and decided to adopt a “planet with rings” model.

Think of Bredemarket as a planet. Like Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter, the planet Bredemarket is surrounded by rings.

Google Gemini.

The closest ring to the planet is the Bredemarket mailing list (MailChimp).

The next closest ring is the Bredemarket website (WordPress).

Moving outward, we find the following rings:

  • Search engines and generative AI tools, including Bing, ChatGPT, Google, Grok, Perplexity, and others.
  • The Bredemarket Facebook page and associated groups.
  • The Bredemarket LinkedIn page and associated showcase pages.
  • A variety of social platforms, including Bluesky, Instagram, Substack, and Threads.
  • Additional social platforms, including TikTok, WhatsApp, and YouTube.

While this conceptualization is really only useful to me, I thought a few of you may be interested in some of the “inner rings.”

And if you’re wondering why your favorite way cool platform is banished to the outer edges…well, that’s because it doesn’t make Bredemarket any money. I’ve got a business to run here, and TikTok doesn’t help me pay the bills…