Staging Your WordPress Site for AI Search: llms.txt, Robots.txt, and Schema

We are not going to have a July meeting since it is right next to the 4th of July and many people would be busy travelling and celebrating. Instead, lets meet on August 5th and have a follow up meeting for our last AEO gathering.
If you've noticed changes in where your website traffic is coming from lately, you aren't alone. With search engines shifting toward AI-generated summaries and conversational answers, the way we build and optimize WordPress sites has to evolve. In our next meetup, we're moving past the theory of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and getting under the hood of our sites to ensure they are fully prepared, structured, and formatted for AI crawlers like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
We will break this down into practical, actionable steps for every skill level. If you're a beginner, you'll learn how to easily use plugins to set up and manage your robots.txt and the new llms.txt files, giving you control over which bots can train on your content. For our intermediate and advanced developers, we will dive into structuring data using advanced Schema markup (JSON-LD) and organizing block data so AI models can easily parse, understand, and credit your site in their answers.
Whether you run a personal blog, manage client sites, or build custom themes, this session will give you a concrete checklist to make your WordPress site "AI-ready" without sacrificing performance or privacy.