--- title: "WordPress topics | WP Ministry" url: https://wpministry.co/topics/ description: "Everything on this site, by subject: errors, security, maintenance, WooCommerce, speed and moving a site. Each topic says where to start and lists its pages." lang: en-US --- Skip to content # WordPress topics Everything on this site, by subject. Each topic says where to start, then lists its error fixes, guides, checklists and tools in one place. - AI search and WordPress What is known about being found and quoted by AI assistants and by Google's AI answers, kept apart from what is only said. Start with whether their crawlers can reach your site, then what each engine documents.: https://wpministry.co/topics/ai-search/ - Local SEO for a WordPress site What a local business's own website has to say for it to be found nearby, and what belongs in its Google Business Profile instead. Start with whether the profile and the site agree, then the site's markup, then its pages for each place it serves.: https://wpministry.co/topics/local-seo/ - Moving a WordPress site or changing platform How to move a site to a new host, a new address or a new platform without losing its pages, its search traffic or its orders. What moves by itself, what has to be rebuilt, and how old addresses are redirected.: https://wpministry.co/topics/wordpress-migration/ - SEO on Shopify, Wix, Squarespace and Webflow What a hosted platform tells a search engine by itself, which of it is yours to change, and how to check whether your pages can be found. The checks are the same on every platform. What you can do about a finding is not.: https://wpministry.co/topics/seo-other-platforms/ - WooCommerce stores Keeping a WooCommerce store taking orders. What to check when checkout or payments fail, how to update without breaking the cart, and how to make a slow store faster.: https://wpministry.co/topics/woocommerce/ - WordPress care plans for agencies and freelancers For agencies and freelancers who build WordPress sites and are asked to look after them. How to sell upkeep as a plan, what to put in the proposal and the monthly report, and how to hand the work to someone else under your own name.: https://wpministry.co/topics/wordpress-agencies/ - WordPress errors and troubleshooting What to do when a WordPress site shows an error, a blank page or will not let you in. Start from the message on the screen, find which of its causes you have, and fix that one.: https://wpministry.co/topics/wordpress-troubleshooting/ - WordPress maintenance and care plans The routine work that keeps a WordPress site running, how to do it yourself safely, and how to decide whether to hand it to someone else.: https://wpministry.co/topics/wordpress-maintenance/ - WordPress security and hacked sites How to tell whether a WordPress site has been broken into, what to do in the first hour, how to clean it, and how to close the ways in so that it does not happen again.: https://wpministry.co/topics/wordpress-security/ - WordPress SEO What WordPress tells a search engine, where that goes wrong, and how to check each part. Start with whether your pages can be found at all, then the sitemap, then the addresses.: https://wpministry.co/topics/wordpress-seo/ - WordPress speed and Core Web Vitals How to find out why a WordPress site is slow and what to fix first. 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