# WordPress websites: design, SEO and AI visibility

> WordPress is the most widely used content management system, flexible enough for simple blogs and large publishers. It supports strong SEO through plugins and themes, but it needs regular updates, careful plugin choices and speed work. We optimize, secure and support WordPress sites, and migrate them when another platform fits better.

Sprout has offered SEO for WordPress sites for years alongside our Wix work.

## When to choose WordPress
- You publish a lot of content
- You need a large plugin ecosystem
- You have developers comfortable with PHP and WordPress
- You want self-hosted control

## SEO and AI search considerations
- SEO plugins for titles, sitemaps and schema
- Full control over URLs and templates
- Speed depends heavily on theme and plugins
- Caching and image handling are essential
- Security updates affect reliability

## What Sprout does
- WordPress SEO audits and fixes
- Speed and Core Web Vitals work
- Plugin cleanup and schema setup
- Migrations to or from WordPress

## Watch out for
- Page builders and plugin bloat slow sites down
- Outdated plugins are a common security risk
- Duplicate archives and tag pages need indexing rules

## Frequently asked questions
### Should we move from WordPress to Wix?

Only if it makes your life easier. WordPress is a good platform. Businesses that struggle with updates and security often do better on a managed platform like Wix Studio.

### Which SEO plugin do you recommend?

Any of the major SEO plugins can work. Configuration matters more than the plugin, so we set it up to match your site structure.

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