AUSTIN, Texas — Jan. 9, 2020 — WP Engine, the WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP), today announced the appointment of Ramadass Prabhakar as the company’s new Senior Vice President of Global Engineering overseeing its global engineering team. Prabhakar will report to Heather Brunner, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer. Prabhakar brings more than 20 years’ experience… […]
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… […]
WP Engine is Now Australia’s Largest WordPress Digital Experience Platform Provider
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA — Nov. 20, 2019 – WP Engine, the WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP), today announced it is now the largest WordPress DXP in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). As part of that growth, WP Engine’s customer base is now over 4,000 and the number of Australian and New Zealand (ANZ)-based agencies in the… […]
WP Engine’s Agency Partner Program, Largest In WordPress, Grows 8X In First Two Years
AUSTIN, Texas – Nov. 19, 2019 – WP Engine, the WordPress digital experience platform, today announced the number of digital agencies participating in its Agency Partner Program (APP) has grown to 5,000+ globally, making it the largest in WordPress. This growth represents an 8X increase since the program began in 2017 and a 186% increase… […]
WP Engine Agency Partner Program Drives EMEA Growth
LONDON — Nov. 5, 2019 – WP Engine, the WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP), today announced the number of EMEA-based agencies in the company’s Agency Partner Program (APP), the largest in WordPress, has nearly doubled, with growth of 87% year-over-year. European customers leveraging WP Engine’s Digital Experience Platform include leading brands and agencies such as… […]
WP Engine Makes Its Smart Plugin Manager for WordPress Even Smarter
AUSTIN, Texas – Nov. 1, 2019 – WP Engine, the WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP), today announced several new updates to its Smart Plugin Manager, the only comprehensive WordPress plugin manager on the market using machine learning to solve one of the most challenging aspects of WordPress — manually keeping up with plugin updates, and… […]
Torque Unveils New Website
ST. LOUIS – Oct. 31, 2019 – WP Engine, the WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP), today announced a new look and usability for Torque, the award-winning WordPress publication with over three million pageviews per year. The six-year-old digital publication, which began at WordCamp San Francisco in 2013, recently underwent a comprehensive redesign, resulting in improved… […]
The Value of Values: Building Better Digital Experiences with AI
AUSTIN, Texas – Sept. 24, 2019 – A new international study commissioned by WP Engine and conducted by researchers at The University of London and Vanson Bourne explored the present and near future of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven human digital experiences on the web, and the often tenuous but also potentially rewarding relationship between consumers, brands… […]
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… […]