Articles from WP Engine

WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress®1, today announced it has successfully achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS). Issued by A-LIGN upon completion of a formal audit process, WP Engine’s platform demonstrated it has met rigorous standards for managed hosting for WordPress and headless WordPress. This new certification builds on its SOC 2 Type standard (2020), giving customers and agencies added peace of mind knowing the platform is architected and operated in a secure and reliable manner.

WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress®[1], today announced the launch of its new AI toolkit, purpose-built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress websites. Featuring Smart Search AI, AI-Powered Recommendations, and Managed Vector Database with an open-source chatbot framework, the toolkit was developed to make advanced AI capabilities accessible to the WordPress community at scale, lowering the barrier to entry and unlocking sustainable, continuous, daily value from existing assets.

WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress®[1], today celebrates its 15th anniversary, a milestone that marks the company’s evolution from a local startup in Austin to a global platform helping businesses win online through open technology and trusted partnerships.

WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress[1], today announced the release of a comprehensive new research report: “The Total Cost of Your Company Website: A Data-Driven Guide for Digital Leaders.” Based on a survey of more than 1,700 digital decision-makers across the U.S., U.K., and Australia, the report reveals that businesses using WordPress experience up to 44% cost savings compared to those relying on proprietary CMS platforms.

WP Engine today unveiled the agenda for DE{CODE} 2025, its annual conference connecting thousands of innovators to explore what’s working, what’s next, and what’s possible with WordPress[1]. The free, virtual event will be held on April 15 (North America and APAC) and registration is open.

WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress, today announced the winners of its 2025 Agency Partner Awards, honoring members of the company’s Agency Partner Program designing and building best-in-class websites with WordPress.1

WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress, today published The State of Headless 2024, a research report highlighting the widespread adoption of headless web architecture among industry leaders. The international survey found that 73% of respondents are now using headless, and nearly 98% of those not currently using this web architecture plan to evaluate headless solutions over the next 12 months.

WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium products and solutions for websites built on WordPress, today announced the hiring of a new Chief Financial Officer, Samuel (“Sam”) Monti. In his new role, Monti is responsible for the leadership and management of all aspects of WP Engine’s financial organization, including corporate development, accounting, tax, treasury, financial reporting and analysis.

WP Engine, a global web enablement company providing premium WordPress products and solutions, today announced its acquisition of NitroPack, an all-in-one SaaS solution for improving site speed and performance metrics, including Google's Core Web Vitals.

WP Engine today announced registration is open for DE{CODE} 2024, the company’s annual developer conference and the industry’s largest WordPress developer event. The free, virtual event will be held on March 19 (North America and APAC) and March 21 (EMEA).

WP Engine today announced the winners of its inaugural Agency Partner Awards, which honor the most innovative and best-in-class WordPress websites designed and built by members of the company’s global Agency Partner Program. With eight categories recognizing excellence in creativity and philanthropy to eCommerce and technical performance, the awards garnered nearly 200 entries from 90 agency partners worldwide.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, announced the appointment of Justin Mongroo as Senior Vice President, Sales. In his role, Justin will lead efforts for the North American sales teams and new growth strategies for the region.

As a proud WordPress technology company, WP Engine has announced WordPress Co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and Gutenberg Lead Architect Matías Ventura will join its annual virtual developer conference, DE{CODE}, on March 21 and 23, 2023. DE{CODE} will be broadcast in three global time zones and anticipates over 5,000 attendees in its fourth year, launching in 2020.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress platform, today announced registration is open for its fourth annual developer conference, DE{CODE} 2023. This completely free and 100% virtual event dedicated to sharing technical knowledge with the global WordPress community highlights WP Engine’s commitment to open source innovation and contribution.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress platform*, today announced the launch of its Managed WordPress Platform on Microsoft Azure. Companies who prefer Microsoft can now choose Azure to build and scale WordPress experiences with WP Engine, meeting advanced IT and technology requirements for scaled performance and certified security for enterprise and SMB businesses. The WP Engine platform is available on Azure today to all businesses across the U.S. and the Netherlands and will expand into other regions throughout 2023 to serve more global customers.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, today announced the appointment of Sachin Puri as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Puri takes on the role following a two-decades-long career leading marketing and sales teams across industry-defining technology companies including McAfee, eBay, and HP.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, today announced exciting changes to its executive leadership team. Proven product and innovation leader Ezinne Udezue has been appointed as Chief Product Officer, leading product strategy and management across the company's WordPress technology brands and developer solutions. Ramadass Prabhakar, who has served as SVP of Global Engineering for the past two years, has been elevated to Chief Technology Officer, leading the company’s engineering and technology focus. Jason Cohen, WP Engine’s founder, has been appointed as the company’s first Chief Innovation Officer, focusing on the intersection of technology innovation and company strategy.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, today announced that it has received ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS). This certification demonstrates WP Engine’s continued commitment to information security at every level and ensures that the security of customer data and information has been addressed, implemented, and properly controlled in all areas of the organization and platform.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, today announced it will acquire five of the most popular developer-centric tools for WordPress from Delicious Brains, strengthening the company’s offerings for both traditional and headless managed WordPress. The plugins have a total installed base of approximately 4 million users and are widely adopted by WP Engine’s customers. The acquired software includes Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, WP Offload SES, and Better Search Replace.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, today unveiled its new Omaha office, located in the historic Ashton Building in the Millwork Commons community. Formerly known as Flywheel, the WP Engine Omaha office takes up the third and fourth floors of the Ashton Building, for a total of 66,000 sq. ft. and will have a 400-person capacity. This office opening is another sign of WP Engine’s continued growth and investment into the community and talent of Omaha.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, today announced Atlas, its award-winning headless WordPress solution, is now available to businesses of all sizes with four new headless WordPress plans, ranging from $49 to $499, allowing developers to learn, build and grow their sites on Atlas. It also announced the launch of Atlas Blueprints, which are free, professionally-designed starter sites allowing anyone to get started fast with headless WordPress. Developers can also try out Atlas by signing up for a free Atlas Sandbox account, which allows developers to learn more about developing with headless WordPress and create prototype projects.

This year’s traditional holiday shopping period, led by the five-day Cyber Weekend that includes Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, is shaping up to be the biggest eCommerce shopping period ever. A recent report from Deloitte forecasts an increase in eCommerce sales up to 15% compared with the same period in 2020. The report projects that 2021 eCommerce holiday sales are expected to reach between $210 billion and $218 billion this season.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, today announced the launch of Atlas Content Modeler (ACM), a free WordPress plugin to create custom post types and fields for headless WordPress sites. ACM integrates seamlessly with WPGraphQL, replacing the need for three separate plugins required to create content models for headless sites.

The fourth annual, international study of Gen Z, conducted by The Center for Generational Kinetics and commissioned by WP Engine, reveals new data on how Generation Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Baby Boomers adapted to digital in their own unique ways during the COVID-19 lockdowns. These ties to digital reveal insights for brands on how to reach these important audiences in different ways.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, today announced all Local tools and features for WordPress development, including those previously exclusive to Local Pro, are now free to everyone. Local is the most relied upon set of local WordPress developer tools and solutions with almost 300,000 users who enjoy its easy development environment to build WordPress sites, test those sites and speed up their development workflow.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, today announced the launch of Premier, the enterprise WordPress platform that delivers industry-leading levels of security, performance and scalability for the world’s most popular and most visited sites.

WP Engine, the world's most trusted WordPress technology company, announced the results of a new, first-of-its-kind research study examining the combined global economy for WordPress, which was estimated at $596.7 billion in 2020, and is expected to grow to $635.5 billion by the end of 2021. The study examined both the economic value of the WordPress ecosystem and the social impact of this ever-expanding community of open source developers, agencies and users.

WP Engine, the WordPress technology company, announced registration is open for its signature event, Summit/2021. Now in its sixth year, this premiere global conference for developers and marketers will be a digital event on June 24th, featuring engaging content and dynamic expert speakers with a mix of live-streamed and on-demand content, including online networking opportunities. Keynoting Summit/2021 will be Reshma Saujani—founder & CEO of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms as well an attorney, author, Congressional candidate, social activist and host of the award-winning podcast “Brave, Not Perfect.”