Developers of all skill levels share a common trait—they’re always trying to get better at their craft and learn more. This is especially true in the WordPress community, where the open source values of collaboration, transparency, and ongoing education continue to make WordPress such a powerful tool for building amazing digital experiences. Those values were… […]
WP Engine’s Engine For Good Exceeds 16,500 Volunteer Hours Advancing WordPress and $260,000 in Charitable Contributions in Inaugural Year
AUSTIN, Texas — Dec. 19, 2019 – WP Engine, the WordPress technology company, announced today that its corporate social responsibility program, Engine for Good, exceeded 16,500 hours in contributions to advance WordPress, while also tallying 1,400+ community volunteer hours and $260,000 in largely employee-led donations, almost double the amount raised in 2018, to more than… […]
Getting Ready for Web Week 2019
Are you ready for 2020? More importantly, is your website? While the holiday season is a good time to reflect on the year that’s passed and plan for the year ahead, it’s also a great opportunity to make needed changes to your website and try out new ideas that will set you up for success… […]
Freemius is Getting into Video Content – This is Why You Should Too
1981 was the year when MTV exploded into the world. The introduction of music videos forever changed the way we consume and enjoy music. Around the same time, a British pop band called “The Buggles” released one of the most groundbreaking pop songs of that era called “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Other than being […]
Release Notes Oct 2019: White Label Mode, URL Whitelisting, User & Dev Dashboard Upgrades, and Major Coupon Improvements
Release Notes include our periodic updates that highlight the recent product improvements we’ve made, so you can easily stay up-to-date on what’s new. We’ve had some major updates and bug fixes to make selling your plugins and themes way easier! Here’s what we worked on between June – Sept 2019: White Label mode and URL […]
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) for WordPress Plugin and Theme Developers
For many plugin and theme shops, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) has been a hot topic in recent months. So what exactly is all the noise about and why is it relevant to WordPress product developers?! Let’s start with a bit of background. What is Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)? SCA rose out of the European Union’s […]
WP Engine Announces Availability of Compute-Optimized Instances in the UK and Western Europe
After rolling out access to Google’s Compute-Optimized Virtual Machines (VM) (C2) in our U.S. Central data center in August, WP Engine is now offering the new hardware to customers in both the UK and Western Europe. Existing customers on WP Engine’s platform served out of GCP’s London data center will be converted over at no… […]
WordFence Now Works on WP Engine
At WP Engine, we maintain a list of plugins that are disallowed on our platform for various reasons. We do this to ensure the security and performance of our WordPress Digital Experience Platform and to prevent redundancies between certain plugins and our platform. WordFence, which is a highly popular security plugin used by more than… […]
WP Engine Site Templates First to Bundle WordPress Site With HubSpot’s Growth Platform
AUSTIN, Texas – Sept. 3, 2019 – WP Engine, the WordPress Digital Experience Platform, today announced WP Engine Site Templates, a new site builder that freelancers, small agencies and marketers can use to quickly create beautiful, online sites using curated themes that are integrated with HubSpot’s all-in-one marketing tools. The first WP Engine Site Template… […]
WP Engine Platform Becomes 40% Faster Making it the Unequivocal Performance Leader in WordPress
AUSTIN, Texas – Aug. 12, 2019 – WP Engine, the WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP), today announced it has become the first WordPress Digital Experience Platform to adopt Google Cloud Platform’s newest infrastructure, the Compute-Optimized Virtual Machines (VM) (C2). With these enhancements, WP Engine’s platform offers performance that is 40 percent faster than anyone else… […]