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Five ways Claude Code failed on a 240,000-line WordPress plugin

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We spent a module of a course watching Claude Code work on Easy Digital Downloads, the WordPress ecommerce plugin: about 240,000 lines of PHP, GPL, with a PHPUnit suite that runs in Docker. Most of the time the agent was good. It read the right files, named the right causes and ran the tests withou…

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  1. 2026-09-26 08:30 · DEV Community — AI
    Five ways Claude Code failed on a 240,000-line WordPress plugin

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