We’re deploying a new feature that makes it simple to restore your WordPress in case something goes wrong in your deployment.  It’s called Restore Checkpoints.  It’s a bit like Time Machine for WordPress.  If something goes wrong on your site,[...]
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Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol has made it really simple to integrate your WordPress with Facebook’s Open Graph so your readers can share your content Facebook.  Any site, not just WordPress, can use this feature to socialize their content. Many of[...]
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Other so-called “Managed” WordPress hosting companies say they’ll make your page fast, then leave it to you to find and configure complicated page- and database-caching plugins with 100 options. We think “managed” means you shouldn’t have to figure all that[...]
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Good news!  The most recent PHP/Apache error log is now available to you three different ways. First, in the WP Engine admin menu in the wp-admin where you have been creating the staging environment and purging all system cache related[...]
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We are turning on a new detection application that will scroll your WP install looking for insecure versions of the TimThumb script. Why you ask? Because we’ve found that blogs running older versions of TimThumb are more susceptible to malware[...]
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HTTPS, SSL, certificates, signing, CSRs, public and private keys, certificate authorities…. It’s really confusing. We’ve put together a clear guide to getting WordPress over HTTPS, telling you only what you need to know, but everything that you have to know. Hope this helps!

You might have heard by now that WP Engine just closed a Series A.  Here’s the official press release: Austin, Texas (PRWEB) November 15, 2011 WP Engine, the WordPress hosting and security service for bloggers and small businesses, today announced[...]
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It’s inevitable, that WP version 3.3 is on track to soon hit the stores, just in time for the holidays. Here at WP Engine, we’ve been hard at work, testing out the beta releases to make sure we’re primed and[...]
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Some of you may have noticed that we recently made a small design change to the WPE Curated plugin display.  This is the index page of plugins that appears in the WordPress wp-admin tool. We had previously highlighted the entire[...]
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WordPress is a open source content management system (CMS) that is very popular, and offers a wide variety of different plugins and third party themes. If you are not careful about what you put on your site, you may accidentally expose your[...]
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