Every WordPress "SEO checklist" eventually gets to the same line: install an SEO plugin, then go configure something called structured data. Yoast walks you through it. RankMath sells a whole tier around it. Most small business owners see the word "schema" once, get intimidated, and skip the whole section.
Structured data is just a block of code in a page's head that spells out what the page is, in a shared vocabulary called schema.org that Google, Bing, and pretty much every search engine agreed to read the same way. Instead of guessing whether a page is a blog post, a product listing, or a recipe from the visible text, the code says so directly: this is an article, written by this person, published on this date, with this image.
Every Cantrip site already ships this. Open any blog post's page source and search for "ld+json" and you'll find a script tag laying out the headline, the author, the publish date, the featured image, and who publishes the site, pulled straight from fields you already filled in when you wrote the post. Every page also carries a breadcrumb block: home, then wherever that page sits in your site, then the page itself. The homepage adds one more: an organization block with your business name, your site's URL, and your logo if you've uploaded one.
Here's the honest part. None of this is a ranking hack, and nobody, including Google, will promise you a specific result for having it. Structured data doesn't move you up the page. What it does is give Google better material to work with when it decides how to display your listing: a breadcrumb path in the URL line instead of a raw web address, an author and date under an article result, occasionally more. Whether any of that shows up depends on Google, not on you, and Google changes its mind about this constantly. Getting it right just means you're not the reason it doesn't show up.
On WordPress this is a whole extra decision: pick a plugin, install it, configure it correctly, keep it updated, hope it doesn't conflict with your theme. On Cantrip, there's no decision. No plugin to pick. No settings page to find. You already wrote a title, a teaser, an author name, and uploaded a featured image and a logo. That's the same information the structured data uses, so there's nothing separate to set up in the first place.
You don't need to check any of this for your site to work. But if you're curious what's sitting under the hood, view source on any of your pages and search for ld+json, or paste the URL into Google's free Rich Results Test. It's the kind of plumbing that's supposed to stay invisible. You're not supposed to think about it. That's most of the point.