AI is changing how people discover, understand, recommend, and interact with websites. Search is no longer limited to traditional search engines – users increasingly rely on AI assistants and answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity to research businesses, compare products, find information and make purchasing decisions.
In this hands-on workshop, I will introduce the concept of AI Readiness for WordPress websites and WooCommerce stores: what it means, why it matters, and how website owners and developers can prepare their content and commerce infrastructure for an AI-first web.
Participants will learn how to make WordPress content easier for AI systems and LLMs to discover, understand, and consume using technologies and approaches such as llms.txt, llms-full.txt, Markdown-based AI-readable content, structured data, and clear entity information.
For WooCommerce stores, we will go a step further and explore the emerging world of Agentic Commerce, where AI agents can move beyond recommending products toward interacting with commerce systems. We will discuss concepts and emerging protocols such as ACP (Agentic Commerce Protocol) and UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol), and look at how a WordPress/WooCommerce store can begin preparing its product catalog, checkout infrastructure, and APIs for this new ecosystem.
The workshop will cover:
* What “AI Readiness” means for a modern website
* How AI agents and LLMs consume website information
* The difference between traditional SEO and AI/LLM readiness
* Implementing `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt` in WordPress
* Creating AI-readable Markdown versions of important website content
* Using structured data and entity information to help machines understand a business
* Preparing WooCommerce product information for AI discovery
* Introduction to Agentic Commerce
* Understanding ACP and UCP
* How WooCommerce stores can begin preparing for AI-assisted and agent-driven shopping experiences
* A practical AI-readiness checklist that attendees can apply to their own WordPress websites
By the end of the workshop, attendees will understand how to evaluate a WordPress website from an AI agent’s perspective and will leave with practical steps they can implement to make their websites and e-commerce stores more accessible to the next generation of AI-powered search, discovery, and commerce.