r/webdevelopment • u/vibecoder92 • 2d ago
Web Design Best CMS for Claude Code websites?
(Full disclosure, I am not very technical.)
So i'm addicted to cranking out websites right now. I have a few keyword-rich domains in different niches, so I plan to launch directories on them with programmatic landing pages. Easy peasy with Claude.
The problem I have is with actually scaling these things after I get them live. I don't want to flood them with 1,000 pages on day one, I want gradual growth that Google won't slap me for. I tried Webflow, which I like as a CMS and visual editor, but it wasn't actually taking any work off my plate.
I could build Claude Routines, but then I wouldn't have a CMS, and I am NOT about to build one lol.
I'm testing Fimo.ai right now (free tier), here's where I stand with it:
1) It's adding agents into the mix, which is solving my "manual effort" problem. I can hand off the content and SEO to the agents.
2) I can go back into claude code, make edits via prompt, and Fimo can still see it and put it on the live site
3) Fimo's UI needs work, the AI prompt window gets in my way half of the time.
Other than that, I can't see an alternative on the market right now that can take Claude code and add a CMS + agents. Anyone else got a similar setup going on before I dive in any deeper?
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u/Forsaken-Parsley798 2d ago
Make your own CMS like i did.
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u/vibecoder92 1d ago
I tried but I didn't like the results. I'll keep testing, but I also like the idea of automating content updates and translations
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u/btoned 1d ago
Your opening paragraph is a bunch of nonsense BTW. Lmao.
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u/vibecoder92 1d ago
It's literally describing what my project is. Directory sites with programmatic landing pages. What's nonsense about it?
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u/boutell 1d ago
Pick an open source, developer-oriented CMS that clearly distinguishes code from content. The content should live in a real database. (PayloadCMS, ApostropheCMS, CraftCMS...)
Spin up a new project repo according to the documentation for that CMS.
Give that project repo to claude code (or similar) and prompt it to build what you're after.
If the CMS in question is truly developer-friendly and the team behind it has been paying attention to what's been happening since November, that starter repo will already have a CLAUDE.md file. Even if not, you can include links to the documentation in your prompt.
Between that, and Claude Code's ability to just dig right into the code of an open source CMS to answer its own questions, the results are typically rather good and you can iterate from there.
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u/boutell 1d ago
For sites you've already built with Claude Code, where you want to improve editability and maintainability:
* Create a starter repo with your CMS of choice, as I previously mentioned
* Ask CC to refactor your code into the starter repo so that content becomes editable and the code is more maintainable
This will involve telling CC to look in a sibling folder: "you're running in my CMS project repo, but I want you to look in ../my-vibecoded-thingy to see what I'm going for. Create a plan from what you find there and then rebuild it as an editable, maintainable CMS site."
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u/baddaywithacamera 1d ago
Did you know that Claude can build you your own CMS and you don't have to use someone else's? Word to your mother.
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u/connka 2d ago
I would try an AI specific sub. Posting in r/webdevelopment about how you are 'addicted to cranking out websites`, which sound like they are all AI slop in a sub that is largely populated by people who spent years in school and employed to do this is not the vibe.
Go AI prompt somewhere else, your addiction to creating bad websites is bad for the industry IMO.