In today’s digital landscape, speed reigns supreme. Your website’s ability to load quickly at all times, even (or especially) when handling high traffic, can make or break your digital success. However, optimizing for speed can be an ongoing challenge, often Continue reading A New Way to Master PageSpeed Scores in Minutes With WP Engine
While there has been concern that economic uncertainty and cyber-weary consumers may combine to temper this year’s holiday shopping season, many factors now point to an expected increase in online holiday sales. With many big-box retailers moving their largest sales Continue reading Your Last-Minute eCommerce Guide for the Holidays
Cyber Weekend—the period surrounding Black Friday and Cyber Monday—is just a few short weeks away, but if your sites aren’t ready for an influx of customer activity, you might miss out on record-breaking traffic and sales. That’s because this year’s Continue reading Set Your WooCommerce Store Up for Success This Cyber Weekend
Website performance is more than just site speed, and it goes beyond the immediate user experience to affect everything from SEO rankings to conversions. According to data collected by Portent, a site that loads in 1 second has a conversion Continue reading The Essential WordPress Performance Checklist
Although consumers tend to associate Black Friday shopping with brick-and-mortar stores, last year, shoppers spent more than $9 billion dollars online on Black Friday. As Black Friday sales continue to rise year over year, it’s evident that more consumers are Continue reading For Better Black Friday Sales, Prep for Holiday Shoppers Now
As the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world, WordPress serves as the creative springboard for web developers and creative professionals to craft websites of all shapes and sizes. Many WordPress Builders rely on the Advanced Custom Fields Continue reading Insights From the First-Ever ACF Annual Survey
Although you may be soaking up the waning days of summer, Thanksgiving and the eCommerce holiday rush are just around the corner. This year, holiday shopping formally kicks off with Black Friday on November 24, although some analysts believe it Continue reading Crush Your Sales Goals, Not Your WooCommerce Store This Holiday Season
WP Engine employees have a way to beat the Texas heat and move the needle on mental health care at the same time: participating in the 14th annual Dam That Cancer paddleboarding event. The premier fundraising event for the Flatwater Continue reading WP Engine is Sponsoring the 14th Annual Dam That Cancer Fundraiser
WP Engine is proud to be a Super Admin sponsor at WordCamp US 2023! Taking place just outside Washington D.C. in National Harbor, MD, the three-day conference will provide an opportunity to network with other WordPress experts, learn about the Continue reading Find WP Engine at WordCamp US!
WP Engine is continuing to invest in Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and with the release of ACF 6.2, we’ve got some real goodness to share today! Bidirectional Relationship Support If you work with ACF long enough, you eventually encounter a Continue reading Do Even More With Less Code in ACF 6.2
When WP Engine acquired and open-sourced Frost—the block-based Full Site Editing theme—in 2021, one of our core objectives was to enable its widespread distribution to an expanding user base. By doing so, we aimed to help WordPress builders familiarize themselves Continue reading Building With Modern WordPress, Locally
The accolades continue to stack up for WP Engine Ireland! Our Limerick, Ireland-based hub has been certified as a Great Place to Work® for the fifth year in a row, adding to a growing list of acknowledgments for its outstanding Continue reading WP Engine Ireland Recognized as a Great Place to Work
Headless WordPress is a hot topic, and it’s increasingly used by brands and agencies to achieve significant performance improvements and deliver dynamic content across multiple touchpoints. At the same time, there are a number of lingering myths about headless, and Continue reading 8 Myths About Headless WordPress—Debunked
The widely used MySQL version 5.7 will reach end-of-life (EOL) status in October 2023, formally shifting all official support to MySQL 8.0. What does this mean for you? Well, if your site is among the 75% of all WordPress sites Continue reading Preparing for MySQL 8.0
End-to-end headless eCommerce just got easier! After launching the Atlas BigCommerce Blueprint earlier this year, WP Engine has doubled down on end-to-end headless eCommerce with the Shopify Blueprint, a complete headless storefront starter project that seamlessly connects to Shopify. The Continue reading Expanding Atlas Commerce With the Shopify Blueprint
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked a new wave of innovation across numerous industries, and search engine optimization (SEO) is no exception. With breakthroughs in natural language processing, machine learning, and most recently, generative AI technology, AI is Continue reading AI and SEO: Empowering the Digital Success of Tomorrow, Today
The WP Engine U.S. and Texas-specific teams are getting rowdy this week in celebration of their most recent recognition from Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture. These most recent accolades bring the total number of Great Continue reading WP Engine U.S. and Texas Locations Earn Great Place to Work Certification
WP Engine is proud to sponsor WordCamp Europe 2023, which takes place June 8–10 in Athens, Greece at Megaron Athens International Conference Centre. This year’s event is likely to be the biggest in WordCamp Europe history, with more than 3,000 Continue reading Find WP Engine at WordCamp Europe!
The world’s most beloved CMS turns 20 this week, marking two decades of content creation, innovation, and community contributions. What started as a small open source project now dominates the web, with more than 43% of all websites (and 63% Continue reading Happy 20th Anniversary, WordPress!
After earning recognition as a Best Workplace for Women earlier this year, WP Engine Ireland has once again been designated a Best Workplace in Tech by Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture. 2023 is the third Continue reading WP Engine Ireland Earns Third Consecutive Best Workplace in Tech Certification