Build & Update Your Author Website with Claude — Design, Code, and SSH
WordPress, a $5 Lightsail server, and Claude Code — update your site by talking to it. No agency, no plugin chaos, no monthly retainer.
You know the website — the one a cousin built in 2019 that you’ve been meaning to update since. The theme is old, the bio is wrong, and the last blog post was a launch announcement for a book that’s now in a boxed set.
Me too. Three sites, all in that same frozen state, because touching them meant hiring someone or learning WordPress again.
Claude Code broke the logjam. I run my sites on Amazon Lightsail — a $5/month server that does everything a $40/month managed host would — and Claude Code can SSH in, read the theme, edit the CSS, push the change, and tell me what it did. I don’t look at code. I say “update the home page hero to say X, swap the headshot, add a book cover carousel” and it does the thing.
This session is the whole pipeline. Design the page in plain English, have Claude Code write or edit the theme, test it, push it, and roll back if you hate it.
In this session:
- Lightsail vs. managed hosting — why $5/month is all most authors need
- SSH, version control, and rollback — the safety net in ten minutes
- Editing WordPress themes by conversation, not by FTP
- Adding a blog, a book page, a landing page without a plugin pile
- The “ask Claude to fix it” workflow when something breaks at 11pm
Best for: authors whose website is a year behind and whose developer won’t return emails.
“I could not have done this on my own without your summit today.” — B.S.
“Today has already changed my workflows.” — J.B.
Your site shouldn’t cost $200 a month to ignore. Watch this one.
