Claude Code (ish) via SSH to WordPress

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I am having fun driving Claude Code for management of WordPress sites using the CLI via SSH login.
There are no results for SSH in this forum that I can see.

I should be prototyping for a client soon an “Agent as a Service” which does an e-commerce conversion.

Is there anything in the Pickaxe ecosystem which could help me deliver this as an automated service? Without asking the user for SSH keys? Perhaps that they install a small custom plugin of mine for verification?

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Hi @kenlyle ,

Thank you for the question. I’m going to check with the team and follow up.

If you’re able to share a little more about the workflow you have in mind, that would help us give you a more useful answer. Are you thinking about:

  • an agent that takes actions inside WooCommerce or WordPress admin, like updating products, handling orders, or managing content
  • or something more operational, where the service is effectively managing parts of the site itself behind the scenes
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Hey Danny, It’s actually a migration, so moving Products and Orders from Woocommerce to another cart system, using integration and mapping provided by yet a third plugin.

So, your first point, yes -it interacts with products and orders, but is not “operational”, ONLY the conversion process and verification is the scope…Most of the verification would be provided via Uilicoius tests, a bit of AI vision, and, finally, manual tests- the idea is that the machine does the mechanical parts.

I really appreciate your interest. If I was unclear, please ask.

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Hi @kenlyle,

I think this may be possible in principle, but I wouldn’t frame it as something Pickaxe supports directly out of the box.

The main thing I’d want to understand is the third-party migration plugin. If it gives you a reliable way to start the migration, read status back, and detect errors programmatically, then Pickaxe could potentially sit above that and coordinate the workflow. If the only way to drive it is through SSH or manual wp-admin interaction, I’d be much less confident.

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Thanks, Danny. Does it help that Claude Code executes operations like this solo once I provide the SSH creds, and we have the WordPress CLI installed?

I am not sure how to install the WP CLI in Pickaxe- it doesn’t seem to be an apt package : https://share.gemini.google/ZrbImske8z7K

In addition, we have the provider of the new cart system starting work on a staging copy of our site as a test of their conversion process, and I have asked them for the database mappings used in the conversion.