{"id":30580,"date":"2017-10-25T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/?p=30580"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:34:40","slug":"wp-engine-unveils-first-wordpress-digital-experience-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/case-studies\/wp-engine-unveils-first-wordpress-digital-experience-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"WP Engine Unveils Industry&#8217;s First WordPress Digital Experience Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agility, Performance, Intelligence and Integrations Enable Agencies, Brands and Publishers to Drive Business Forward Faster<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n<p><b>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 OCT. 25, 2017 \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0WP Engine today announced its <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress Digital Experience Platform<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the industry\u2019s leading solution to build, deliver and optimize digital experiences using WordPress, the most popular content management system for professional and personal websites which powers 28 percent of the web. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The WP Engine Platform provides the agility, performance, intelligence, and integrations that customers need to drive their online business forward faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Global Ecosystem<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With more than two billion page views across 500,000+ digital experiences every day and 70,000+ global customers, the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform offers a comprehensive suite of software, infrastructure, analytics, security and support solutions. \u00a0These solutions enable a global ecosystem of developers, marketers, and agencies <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to innovate and go-to-market faster, improve the performance of their brand\u2019s online presence, deliver actionable insights to improve the ROI of their sites and applications and enable integrations with the best-in-category technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WP Engine leads the WordPress Web Content Management (WCM) industry with the most customers among the most visited 100,000 sites, as ranked by Alexa*. Every day, five percent of the web visits a WP Engine powered experience, uniquely positioning the company to deliver on the promise of its WordPress Digital Experience Platform and empower businesses of all sizes to win online, protect their brand, and grow their business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe sit at the intersection of innovation and service, which means we understand the evolving needs of the c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">onnected consumer and the need for rich, engaging digital experiences,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d said Heather Brunner, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of WP Engine. \u201cThese global interactions at scale represent an opportunity for brands to tell their story across any digital touchpoint with the creative agility to do it well, the intelligence to know how and why their customers are engaging with them, and consistently deliver real economic impact.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Customer Perspectives<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMoving to WordPress has given us the flexibility to install plugins that directly solve a lot of the problems our team has faced in front-end development. The platform is one of the most popular CMS\u2019 in the market for good reason,\u201d said Arya Ahmadi, Managing Editor of the NBA\u2019s Dallas Mavericks\u2019 Mavs.com. \u201cNow we have the ability to serve our content securely, increase page rankings and display our video content directly through social platforms like Twitter cards, Google AMP and Facebook instant articles. Pixel Jar and WP Engine are two companies we\u2019re lucky to call our partners. We\u2019re proud of our Mavs.com and wouldn\u2019t be where we are today without the true heroes behind the scenes!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne of the first things we tell our clients is that using WordPress doesn\u2019t constrain the design opportunities, it enhances them. We often have a short window to get client campaigns together, so it\u2019s nice that WordPress speeds up the task, integrates with many other third-party tools and doesn\u2019t compromise what\u2019s possible creatively,\u201d said Isabel Kantor, Senior Technology Director at R\/GA. \u201cWP Engine\u2019s platform takes the guesswork out of WordPress allowing us to focus on building both innovative technology solutions and brand stories that engage and captivate consumers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Pressing Ahead<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the biggest concerns for digital marketers and developers are knowing that the business sites they create are agile, intelligent, secure and that support is available 24\/7 from the largest customer experience team of experts in WordPress today. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WP Engine has strategic relationships with trusted brands like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver the agility, performance, intelligence and integrations at scale with cloud coverage around the globe that enables enterprise-grade performance for customers of all sizes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Key Pillars of The WP Engine WordPress Digital Experience Platform:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Creative Agility: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increases speed-to-market with developer tools and a flexible environment by combining the customer\u2019s vision with WP Engine\u2019s WordPress Digital Experience Platform. With WP Engine, brands can build remarkable web experiences quickly and easily with the flexibility of the WordPress open source platform as well as access to hundreds of thousands of \u00a0WordPress developers located around the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Enterprise Performance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delivers digital experiences with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collectiveray.com\/wd\/hosting\/wpengine-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speed<\/a>, scale, security, and high-availability. More than 70,000+ customers trust WP Engine to power 500,000+ digital experiences at the speed and scale needed to meet the needs of today\u2019s empowered consumer. The company also features proactive security, blocking over 3.6 billion malicious attacks each month.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Actionable Intelligence:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Provides insights to improve the digital experience and make a business impact. WP Engine recently launched <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/application-performance\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Application Performance,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which provides code-level visibility to help teams troubleshoot faster, optimize their WordPress experiences and increase development agility. Additionally,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/fast-wordpress-hosting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Page Performance<\/span><\/a>, which is another intelligence tool, offer<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s real-time front-end site performance data and expert recommendations to make it faster. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Ecosystem Integration: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extends the digital and marketing hub with open integrations using best-of-breed solutions. WP Engine combines its proprietary technology and expert service with integrated partner technology to extend innovation. The WP Engine Technology Partner Ecosystem includes industry-leading infrastructure providers such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, unlimited free SSL certificates with Let\u2019s Encrypt, eCommerce partnerships, analytics services from companies like New Relic and Google and more.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Multi-year Award-Winning Customer Support &amp; Service:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> WP Engine customers have peace of mind knowing that the industry\u2019s largest customer support organization is available 24\/7\/365 to ensure success. The company\u2019s WordPress experts recently surpassed one million live chats since launching in 2013, with a world-class relationship net promoter score (NPS) of 72. WP Engine also continues to receive recognition for its customer support, winning three awards in the last two years from the world\u2019s premier business award, the \u201cStevies,\u201d for Customer Service.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About WP Engine<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WP Engine is the world\u2019s leading WordPress digital experience platform that gives enterprises and agencies the agility, performance, intelligence, and integrations they need to drive their business forward faster. WP Engine\u2019s combination of tech innovation and an award-winning team of WordPress experts are trusted by over 70,000 companies across 130 countries to provide counsel and support, helping brands create world-class digital experiences. 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