Real-Time Text-to-Speech Translation from English to Spanish, German, French or Portuguese SAN FRANCISCO — June 5, 2018 — WP Engine, the leading WordPress digital experience platform, today announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring machine learning-powered speech translations to WordPress, the dominant content management system (CMS) that powers nearly a third of… […]
WP Engine Awarded For Company Culture At A-List Awards
Last night, WP Engine, among 20 other Austin-based startups, were honored during the eighth-annual A-List awards. During the event held at ACL in the downtown-based Moody Theater, startups were awarded according to four categories: Emerging, Growth, Scale and Culture. Recognized emerging startups have received $5M or less in funding, companies in the Growth category have… […]
Freemius Is Now GDPR Ready! Here’s What You Need To Do For Your WordPress Plugin Or Theme Store:
As you all know, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect today! (May 25th, 2018). It aims to protect fundamental privacy rights and the personal data of European Union residents. While they were 4 long and tiring weeks of full-time work towards GDPR compliance, in which almost all of our team took part […]
Introducing Your New User Portal Experience
WP Engine has been hard at work creating a new user experience in your WP Engine User Portal! This new user experience brings some powerful new workflows for development and organization for teams. If you are on a new Startup, Growth, or Scale plan, you already have this new experience. We are slowly rolling out… […]
30% of The Web Is Now Powered By WordPress
The days when WordPress was used primarily for blogging are over. Today it’s the dominant CMS that powers 30% of the web. What was once a blogger’s CMS is now used to create digital experiences by 37% of Alexa’s top 100 sites. Consider this. It is believed that there are nearly 2 billion websites online… […]
WP Engine Named A Best Place To Work In Technology
The technology industry is well-known for its new-age and opulent work environments-flexible dress codes, ping-pong tables, free swag and a dream snack closet. However, great perks aren’t the end-all of a great work environment. A lot of work goes into facilitating a work environment that is both productive and enjoyable. To quantify satisfaction at work,… […]
Introducing The New wpengine.com
Hello – I’m David Fossas, Director of Brand for WP Engine. If you’re a returning user, you may have noticed that our website has looked a bit different in the last month. Well, today we’re excited to formally announce that we have launched our new corporate website: wpengine.com. In this blog post, I’ll give a… […]
WP Engine Secures Strategic Growth Investment From Silver Lake And Surpasses $100M In Annual Recurring Revenue
Company Poised for Continued Rapid Revenue and Customer Growth AUSTIN, Texas — Jan. 4, 2018 – WP Engine, the world’s leading WordPress Digital Experience Platform, announced today a $250 million investment from Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, and the company’s achievement of more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue with over… […]
Get Ready For Web Week 2017
Are you ready for business in 2018? The holidays are often accompanied by low traffic and inactivity; what better time to make changes, take risks and improve your strategy for 2018? To help you do that, we are offering Web Week for the second year in a row. During Web Week we’re encouraging brands and… […]
WP Engine Study Reveals Generation Z Lives Through Digital Experiences
Study with The Center for Generational Kinetics Shows The Digital World Must Increasingly Be More Entertaining, More Secure, More Predictive and More Personalized To Connect AUSTIN, Texas — Dec. 5, 2017 – A new, national study commissioned by WP Engine and conducted by The Center for Generational Kinetics explores the mindset, preferences, and expectations of… […]