Our blog has fifteen years of history in it, and until last week the categories showed it. Twenty categories, fifty-five tags, going back to 2007. Magento, Joomla, osCommerce, a catch-all bucket called Stream. Good history, but it had drifted a long way from the work we do now.
So we rebuilt it. In one working session I sat with an agent, Claude Code wired to our WordPress over the REST API, and we refactored the whole taxonomy to match where we are headed: applied AI, with WordPress and AI-for-WordPress as the bridge.
What I liked was the discipline of it. The agent read the live taxonomy and wrote a report before it touched anything. Then a dry-run plan I signed off on. Then it executed, with a rollback snapshot and a check before every delete. Twenty categories became seven plus an archive, fifty-five tags became four, and every old URL got a redirect so nothing breaks.
The model did the busywork. We kept the decisions and the paper trail. That is the kind of AI-for-WordPress work we are doing now.
I wrote up the whole thing, including the near-verbatim session so you can see exactly how it ran, over on Insights: Refactoring fifteen years of blog taxonomy in one session.
If you run a WordPress site that has drifted from where your business actually is, and you are a San Francisco Bay Area company, feel free to reach out. We are here for you.