I’m excited to share ATCS has joined WordPress VIP as a Silver Agency Partner! ATCS is a global technology consulting firm focused on providing scalable and robust digital and analytics solutions for Fortune-50 as well as mid-size clients. With nearly 1000 dedicated employees spread across 10 global offices, ATCS combines the prowess of enterprise IT with digital marketing and social insights to help innovative enterprises deliver a 360-degree digital customer experience. Their areas of expertise include: CMS migrations Headless WordPress with React Page Builders including Gutenberg, Elementor, Beaver Builder, WPBakery WooCommerce Full-stack expertise in PHP Modern Javascript framework Microservices architecture…
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Powered by Coffee is a Silver Agency Partner
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Read moreHappy Cog is a Gold Agency Partner
I’m happy to announce Happy Cog is now a Gold Agency Partner! Happy Cog is one of only 11 partners in this distinguished group and stands out as one of the only full-service digital agencies with a dedicated team of designers, developers, digital marketers, content strategists, and project managers—all under one roof. Happy Cog is a best-in-class, full-service NYC-based agency specializing in web and mobile development, design, and digital marketing. The award-winning company has vast experience building WordPress websites across a multitude of industries—from nonprofits and higher education to media and publishing to technology and enterprise. With over 20 years…
Continue readingSiteimprove joins the WordPress VIP Technology Partnership program
We are proud to welcome Siteimprove as our newest Featured Technology Partner! Siteimprove joins the growing enterprise WordPress ecosystem of organizations building solutions to help our customers scale their platforms to match their business. Siteimprove is an award-winning global software-as-a-service company that helps organizations achieve their digital potential by empowering teams with actionable insights to deliver a superior website experience and drive growth. Siteimprove has 550+ employees across 13 offices, helping over 7,200 customers globally. The company has 17+ years of digital expertise and partners with leading organizations such as the W3C and the UN. They also offer best-in-class technical…
Continue readingEvaluating Enterprise Content Management Platforms: The Cost of Not Choosing WordPress VIP
Did your digital transformation timeline accelerate this year? We’ve seen many leaders realize in 2020 that digital content is intrinsically tied to their business growth (or survival). Also, given the state of constant change we all find ourselves living in, agility has become more important than ever for businesses looking to create engaging customer experiences. With this understanding of the mission-critical nature of content, executives are assessing not only the content management platforms they use, but also their ability to deliver digital agility, and the costs involved in doing so. It’s not always easy to assess the total cost of…
Continue readingVertex named a WordPress VIP agency partner
We are proud to welcome Vertex as a new agency partner! With headquarters split between Austin, Texas, and Lagos, Nigeria, Vertex is the only Featured Partner with its own coding academy. This academy creates a direct pipeline to some of the African continent’s best and brightest developers—and in turn, helps Vertex provide 24/7 support to their clients. Vertex offers design-first development Vertex has been building Web-based software solutions since 1996. Their development approach is design-driven, led by a process they call the 4D method: Discovery, Design, Development, and Deployment. Of these, their key differentiator is design. For all jobs, they…
Continue readingHow FiveThirtyEight Shattered Traffic Records with Zero Downtime During the U.S. Election
Raise your hand if you found yourself endlessly hitting the ‘refresh’ button on your browser the week of November 3. Yep, us too. Including those of us who were heads-down powering the sites serving late-breaking election updates to every corner of the globe. With so many customers in the news business, election season is always a busy one for WordPress VIP. High scale, zero headaches for FiveThirtyEight Four years ago, we saw landmark traffic spikes for customers like FiveThirtyEight, who posted in a single day the amount of traffic we expect the largest-scale sites to power in an entire week.…
Continue reading3 Ways an Integrated CMS and Ecommerce Platform Can Boost Growth
Electrocomponents is a 70-year-old company whose mission is to deliver innovation and inspiration to engineers worldwide so that they can do their business better. And we’re talking about a lot of engineers: across six lines of business, Electrocomponents serves 500,000 products to 1 million customers in 80 countries each year. In a single day, Electrocomponents will ship upwards of 50,000 packages. Click here to watch the webinar: Leveraging Your CMS to Fuel Ecommerce Growth In 2019, Electrocomponents launched its first direct-to-consumer business line, OKdo, focused on serving the single board computing (SBC; think Raspberry Pi) and the Internet of Things…
Continue readingShutterstock is WordPress VIP’s newest Featured Technology Partner
We are proud to welcome Shutterstock as a new Featured Technology Partner! Shutterstock joins our growing group of partners with proven excellence in implementing solutions and integrations for WordPress at scale. They are also the leading global image provider to enterprise brands, marketing agencies, and media organizations with offices around the world and customers in 150 countries. Shutterstock is a 17-year old, leading global technology company offering high-quality assets, tools, and services through its creative platform. Made in New York City, with over 1,000 employees across offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Paris, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Toronto, and…
Continue readingStoryware is now a Silver Agency Partner
WordPress VIP has added Storyware to our Featured Agency Partner program! Storyware launched as a one-man consulting endeavor in 2005 and quickly scaled into a tight-knit team of highly skilled creatives. Storyware has always been passionate about crafting straightforward user experiences for customers to express their stories, ideas, and information in imaginative and engaging ways. As a long time Tumblr partner, Storyware is no stranger to working with high profile clients with time-sensitive needs. Their client list includes many household names such as Kate Spade, The Home Depot, and Pfizer. Each of Storyware’s projects starts and ends with the same…
Continue readingCelebrating The 360 Blog, a new milestone from Salesforce and WordPress VIP
Today we are thrilled to celebrate a milestone in Salesforce’s digital transformation journey: the launch of The 360 Blog, powered by WordPress VIP. As Salesforce’s Vice President of Content Marketing, Hayley Nelson, explained in our conversation earlier this year, Salesforce is on a mission to tell impactful stories that provide customers with relevant, timely information to confront the challenges keeping them up at night. Agility is key to creating a valuable customer experience With content at the heart of their customer experience, Salesforce knew they needed a CMS agile enough to empower them to respond quickly to changes in the…
Continue readingZephr named a WordPress VIP Featured Technology Partner
We are proud to welcome Zephr as a new technology partner! Zephr joins our growing group of partners implementing solutions for enterprise publishers and marketers using WordPress at scale. They lead the market with an intuitive, drag-and-drop customer journey builder. Zephr’s initial focus and vision is to allow their partners to create the best customer journeys in a totally new, code-free, highly iterative way—and their ongoing product development is informed by years of experience building identity, subscription and paywall solutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, they already work with dozens of major clients globally, including a host of…
Continue readingSecurity measures to prepare for the 2020 U.S. election season
As we look to the upcoming 2020 U.S. elections, political parties are conducting more virtual events than ever, and media outlets are experiencing major surges in traffic. In an environment of increasing cybersecurity attacks across the digital landscape, we want to highlight the best-in-class security measures which empower WordPress VIP customers to operate safely and securely throughout the election season and beyond. This post shares our best practices alongside steps customers can take in the shared responsibility of protecting application security. Click here to download the checklist: Security best practices for site contributors Enterprise-grade protections With WordPress VIP, customers get…
Continue reading4 technology best practices for large-scale virtual events
Andrew Binns is an expert on technology infrastructure for major events. His experience includes the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Tony Awards, and NFL kickoff, in addition to the last five Democratic National Conventions (DNCs). His role in the DNC goes all the way back to 2004—when WordPress itself was just a year old. As COO of the 2020 Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC), Andrew led the transformation of this year’s convention into a fully-remote, high-performing digital experience. This historic event attracted a record-breaking 35.5 million digital viewers and suffered zero security incidents or outages. WordPress VIP was proud to serve…
Continue readingBotify named a WordPress VIP Technology Partner
We are proud to welcome Botify as a new Technology Partner! Botify joins our growing group of partners as the first technology partner with proven excellence in enterprise-level SEO. WordPress VIP customers can now rely on a platform that’s built for the size, scale, and complexity of their websites and drive long-term and sustained growth from organic search. Botify was founded in 2012 by Adrien Menard, Thomas Grange, and Stan Chauvin, three SEO professionals who were executing a range of SEO services for their agency clients. They noticed that the most commonly utilized SEO tactics by brands were focused on…
Continue readingUnder the hood of Google’s Web Stories for WordPress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TT067iMb_A Paul Bakus, head of AMP and Creator Relations at Google, recently joined business leaders, product people, and enterprise developers at BigWP to share a live demo and behind-the-scenes look at an exciting new offering: Google’s Web Stories. Aren’t stories old news? Yes and no. Stories have become ubiquitous on most major social media platforms— think Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat. However, Paul argues these implementations of stories emphasize “ephemerality” (they’re meant to disappear) and “casual creation” (they look homemade). With Web Stories, Google is betting that the story format translates to other uses. Specifically, they see an emerging opportunity in the media…
Continue readingA look inside OKdo’s enterprise ecommerce technology stack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB3EGzrHvtY Ecommerce is one of the most promising growth channels in today’s enterprise market. In fact, the US Department of Commerce announced in August that ecommerce retail sales were estimated to grow 31.8% compared to the previous quarter. Box UK is a WordPress VIP agency partner and ecommerce expert. At a recent BigWP event, Box UK’s Lead Business Analyst Allie Brock shared how her team helped OKdo launch an enterprise ecommerce platform in less than 8 months. A division of Electronic Components (FTSE 250), OKdo now manufactures and sells single board computing and IOT technology in seven countries and six…
Continue reading7 Ways a Content Hub Can Boost Your Agility
READ WHITE PAPER According to Gartner, marketing teams spend approximately 30% of their budget on content creation. That’s nearly a third of their entire budget, dedicated to producing content. And it makes sense: the modern customer experience is a digital one. Content has become the primary way businesses interact with their customers. Across every major industry, smart brands turn to content to engage and nurture potential customers, build new revenue channels, measure customer satisfaction, and more. Given this expanding role of content in today’s business strategies, how a company produces content is becoming just as important as what they produce.…
Continue readingTechnology Partner News: Visual storytelling with Google, Setka, and Cloudinary
As the roster of WordPress VIP Technology Partners continues to grow, we’ll update you here on some of the best new features, integrations, and events for enterprise publishers and marketers building on the open web. Google Web Stories Google has released a beta version of their new Plugin, Web Stories for WordPress, spinning off an AMP Project feature into a powerful storytelling tool built into the WordPress Block Editor. WordPress VIP customers and partners will recognize this new product from the talks Paul Bakaus presented at our BigWP events in May and July. In addition, the AMP for WordPress Plugin…
Continue readingHow better accessibility can improve your bottom line
Taeke Reijenga is CEO of Level Level, a Netherlands-based design and development agency with an emphasis on ecommerce and web accessibility, and a WordPress VIP Silver agency partner. He’s an expert in helping organizations optimize their digital strategies, which often includes helping them understand that better accessibility can lead to higher revenue. At a recent BigWP event, Taeke recently shared his tips with us in a talk on the business benefits of inclusive design. What is web accessibility? Most folks think “web accessibility” is the practice of making websites accessible for users with disabilities. And while that’s technically correct, Taeke…
Continue readingPanel: Behind the scenes of product innovation with Rolling Stone
WATCH NOW It’s not easy to stay hip for over half a century. In this webinar, learn how Rolling Stone leverages partnerships to drive digital product innovation for their 53-year-old brand. In this panel discussion, leaders at Penske Media Corporation (Rolling Stone’s parent company), XWP, and WordPress VIP will give you an inside look at how you can optimize your technology stack to respond quickly to changes in the market and create customer experiences that drive revenue. You’ll learn: How to adopt an integrated approach to design and development partnerships Guidelines for reducing the total cost of ownership of your…
Continue readingIntroducing the technology integrations report
At WordPress VIP, we have witnessed our customers build amazingly powerful and flexible platforms to fulfill their digital experience strategies. The fun part is, no two of these platforms are exactly alike. That’s one of the best things about enterprise WordPress: it’s endlessly customizable. Brands can choose from hundreds of plugins and integrations to build exactly what they need. Inspired by these customers, we recently set out to gather insights on the most popular technology integrations for common business requirements. We surveyed customers across three continents, including countries like Guatemala, England, Switzerland, and Australia. True to our roots, the majority…
Continue readingIntroducing new Silver agency partner 45Press
We are so excited to welcome 45Press as a WordPress VIP Silver agency partner! Established in 2012, one of 45Press’ early projects involved converting hundreds of websites from a popular CMS to WordPress. While the undertaking was risky for a brand new agency, failure was not an option. The team worked nonstop over the next few months to complete the project, delivering it ahead of schedule, and with great satisfaction from the client. Over the next few years, the 45Press team grew to include front-end, back-end, and full-stack developers, as well as UI/UX responsive design specialists. Their clientele evolved from…
Continue readingPanel: Drive digital commerce with content marketing
WATCH NOW Content is the heart of digital commerce. It’s what drives people to your products and keeps them coming back for more. In this panel, experts from digital commerce leaders Square, PHLEARN, and Craftpeak share tips for using content to build a seamless customer experience at high-growth ecommerce businesses. You’ll learn: Content strategies to maximize your customer lifetime value How to integrate marketing and product content Tips to deliver a consistent experience across channels Tools to benchmark the impact of your content Featuring: Mallory Russell, Head of Content, Square Seth Kravitz, CEO, PHLEARN John Kelly, CEO and Co-founder, Craftpeak…
Continue readingWelcome Aleph, a new Silver agency partner
We are proud to welcome Aleph Incorporated as a new agency partner! Over almost two decades of web development, Aleph’s band of creative misfits has worked to bring WordPress to enterprises of all shapes and sizes. Aleph’s approach to client work focuses on content and context, meaning they tailor the technology to fit what is being communicated, not the other way around. They revel in a scrappy, small-team culture that brings together a diversity of opinions, backgrounds, and skillsets. Aleph’s staff takes real ownership of each client project. Above all else, they seek to cultivate longevity in both their web…
Continue readingIt’s official: The future is VIP Go!
We’re excited to announce that by the end of 2020, all WordPress VIP customer sites will be upgraded to VIP Go. VIP Go is our proprietary cloud platform custom-built for enterprises who need to deliver amazing content at large scale. Why VIP Go? In the decade-plus that we’ve brought the benefits of WordPress to large organizations, we have learned their needs are concentrated in four key areas: agility, flexibility, simplicity, and ownership. VIP Go addresses each of those needs in a powerful, intuitive platform with the rock-solid performance and reliability our customers have come to expect from WordPress VIP.…
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