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The WP Engine team is in the last stages of testing WordPress 3.1. When testing is completed, we will officially support WordPress 3.1 . The latest version of WordPress is currently available on all WP Engine sites, but not supported as we have not completed a full assessment of WordPress 3.1.
For our testing process, we are testing the 3.1 upgrade with our curated plugins. The list of our curated plugins is available here . We are not able to test for every possible plugin that is used, as there are over 13,000 plugins to choose from. We strongly recommend caution before doing the 3.1 upgrade. Take any steps to do a back up of your site, including saving any customizations made to your site.
We cannot guarantee support or functionality for any plugin that is not curated by us, so please make sure that the plugin you are using is currently supported by WordPress 3.1 . You can view information on any plugin at the Official WordPress Plugins Repository
We will eventually require all WP Engine users to upgrade to 3.1, but we will not force that until we get feedback from the WP Engine Community on how 3.1 works on their site. We will also announce this in advance so you can prepare for it accordingly.
If you have issues with your site during or after the upgrade process, please do not hesitate to contact support:
support@wpengine.com
We’re growing fast here at WPEngine, and that means more hands on deck!
Stealing a joke from the StackExchange blog, I’m happy to welcome Valued Associates #00004 and #00005 to the team.
You’ll start seeing Chris Lauzon‘s name on support tickets right away, because he’s our new Head of Customer Happiness. Besides improving our time-to-close-a-ticket metric, he’s also going to be overseeing a new Knowledge Base and Forums system.
Mark Kelnar is our new Head of Backend Stuff, taking over our backend architecture. His immediate project is to build the long-awaited Customer Portal where you’ll be able to self-serve things like adding a domain to your blog and updating your credit card information.
We have some cool new products in the pipeline, and with Chris and Mark we’ll be able to improve the base service while working on new stuff.
Welcome!
Since launching in July we’ve grown at an extremely fast pace. We’re now serving over 500 million hits and 30 terabytes of data transfer per month. Thus far it’s been the three of us and our amazing advisors keeping the engines running. We’d like to add a few new talented members to our team to help us build new tools, make our platform faster, and provide the best experience possible to our customers.
If you’re interested in working with a close-knit, fast-growing and successful start-up with a passion for WordPress, open source, and creating helpful products we’d like to hear from you!
WP Engine is based out of Austin, TX and we are primarily looking for candidates to work on-site. However we will consider exceptionally qualified/experienced candidates for remote work with some travel to HQ in Austin.
It’s been quite a few months for us at WP Engine! We’ve been very busy adding new clients, building out new features, and making the platform faster and stronger every day. I’d like to quickly highlight a few of the things we’ve been working on:
We’d like to thank all of our customers, fans, family, and friends for helping us grow so quickly! We don’t plan to stop!
We are extremely pleased to announce WP Engine, our premium WordPress hosting platform! Check back on Thursday, July 29th for our invite form to go live.
As WordPress power users, we’ve always wondered why it’s so hard to find a host run by WordPress experts. After countless hours of searching, we realized there was, in fact, no one doing this.
So, we decided to embrace our inner entrepreneur and start a company to scratch our own itch.
WP Engine was born less than 3 months ago and we’ve been working our butts off in stealth mode ever since. While our goal has always been to build something we would use ourselves, we decided from the beginning that we would not do this in a black box. Talking to potential customers from day 1 has been our highest priority. We’re now hosting 25+ early evangelists and have learned a great deal about what various types of people want out of WordPress itself and their hosting provider.
First and foremost is speed. It’s an addicting trait that neither we nor our users can get enough of it. Forget typical blogs. We run WP Engine like you would run any popular web application. We utilize proxy servers, database caching, content delivery networks, minificaiton, image compression, and every other trick in the book to make sure your site loads as fast as possible.
Security is equally important. Ah the great debate. WordPress and security. We understand that security is an area of dark and deep magic. Many people don’t understand how or why “hacks” occur. Nor should you. We take that responsibility on ourselves and will never pass the blame. We don’t think we will ever need to either.
Worried about your site staying up because you’ve been *Fireballed or TechCrunch covers your awesome product? 1 We make sure your WordPress powered site takes simultaneous connections in stride. Don’t believe us? We have some amazing customers who previously had this pain point and are now able to sleep better at night because they don’t worry about their site going down. Here is what a few of them have to say about their experience with us:
“It’s really nice to concern ourselves with the content and growth of our blog rather than trying to be my own IT department.” – Jay B Sauceda, Public School
“I self-hosted WordPress for years until I started experiencing crashes every time a post made it to the first page of HackerNews. I switched to WPEngine right before speaking at a major event. Not only did my blog survive the traffic spike, but I’ve doubled the number of subscribers since then and haven’t experienced a single outage yet.” – Ash Maurya
We’re not your grandma’s host. With WP Engine the headaches that come with a standard host are non-existent. We allow you to focus on creating content while we take care of upgrades, backups and maintenance. In fact, don’t think of us as a host at all, think of WP Engine as a WordPress platform where staying out of your way is a feature (unless of course you need help, in which case we’ll respond immediately).
While speed, security, and scalability are our main three tenants we’ve also built and are continually building some really cool extra features. I’ll highlight a few of them here but you can read about them in more detail on our features page and keep up with ongoing development by subscribing to this blog.
In the coming months we’ll be adding some really great content sections to our site, including:
Today we venture out of stealth. We’ll be opening our waiting list to the world on Thursday, July 29th. If you’re interested in trying us out simply enter your email address and we’ll contact you as soon as we’re ready to add you to our platform. Due to high demand the current wait time is 1 – 2 days for a new site. The great part is, once you have a site on WP Engine, we make it extremely easy to migrate over (even if you’re currently self-hosting WordPress).
Please feel free to comment with any questions, ideas, or feedback you might have. We’re really excited to finally get to talk about what we’ve been working so hard on for the past few months and hope you will be too!
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