My Aha Moment - ICM in the cloud

I've had a genealogy website for several years that used a commercial php based program that I've tried several times to better integrate with wordpress so that I could add other types of content, family stories, etc. It's never really worked the way I wanted.

My ideal setup has always been to have a site for my side of the family and one for my wife's side and use the same database.

As I thought about how to build something using ICM techniques I thought - why not just put the structure and MD files on the web server, connect with VS code and have Claude code work inside where the database and files already exist? DUH - I'm sure most of you have already been doing this.

So, my markdown files detailed the locations of the current database and php files, the two wordpress sites and what I was looking to accomplish.

I had it analyze the current program, modernize the database if needed, then create a wordpress plugin that somewhat duplicated the current functionality, add the plugin to both sites and test. And of course, ask questions if something isn't clear.

While I tweaked the wordpress themes, it worked in the background and by the time I had headers, footers and menus built, Claude tweaked the database structure, built the wordpress plugin and added to the backend of both sites.

Love it!

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