After weeks of close calls and stiff competition, the dust has settled in the final round between two of WordPress’ top plugins, and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has emerged victorious, securing the Plugin Madness crown for the second consecutive year. Continue reading ACF Wins Plugin Madness 2024!
Today marks the end of WP Engine’s fifth annual DE{CODE}, the virtual developer conference. With recorded sessions airing live across two days and three time zones, the conference had more than 4,000 attendees from 86 countries. More than 45 experts Continue reading DE{CODE} Strikes a Chord, Achieves Record-Setting Attendance
welcome to a roundup featuring a selective group of professionals in our WordPress community. We’ve gathered CEOs, product managers, marketers, and content creators from leading companies such as Elementor, Kinsta, Cloudflare, Post Status, Freemius, and WPZOOM. These industry veterans are Continue reading What’s the No. 1 Thing a New Business Entering the Online Space Should Do? The WordPress Community Answers
Voting for Plugin Madness, Torque’s annual bracket-style competition, is officially kicking off this week. Out of all the plugins that were nominated, 64 of the top contenders were selected for the four initial categories: Marketing, Optimization, Performance, and eCommerce. Now Continue reading Voting is Open for Plugin Madness!
Plugin Madness 2024 has arrived! It’s time for Torque’s annual Plugin Madness competition—the springtime classic in which 64 plugins enter the technical arena to determine which is the best-loved in WordPress. With nearly 60,000 plugins available in the official WordPress Continue reading Nominate Your Favorite Plugins for Plugin Madness!
In recent years, we’ve featured interviews with remarkable individuals from the WordPress community and beyond. Inspired by this, we created roundups highlighting popular questions and insightful answers from these interviews. The post We Asked 20 Members of the WordPress Community Continue reading We Asked 20 Members of the WordPress Community What Their Must-Have Plugin Is and Why
For WordPress developers and designers, continued learning is just a part of the job. There will always be new tools, technologies, and site-building strategies emerging, and staying on top of the latest innovations is crucial for those who want to Continue reading Top Conferences for WordPress Professionals in 2024
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
Hey, it’s interview time on Themeisle! Get ready to learn from Rahul Bansal’s insights on WordPress, business, mission, plugins, and more. Rahul Bansal is the founder and CEO of rtCamp. After starting out as a blogger, he is now leading Continue reading Rahul Bansal Interview – “If There Is Demand for Your Products, Everything Else Can Be Taken Care Of”
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!
Hello! Welcome to another edition of our interview series with WordPress professionals. In this one, you’ll meet Tess Coughlan. We’ll be talking about WordPress, success, marketing, mission, and more. The post Tess Coughlan Interview – “Narratives Run Through Your Business Continue reading Tess Coughlan Interview – “Narratives Run Through Your Business Every Day. Don’t Be Afraid to Get Creative With the Way You Share That With the World”
Hi, WordPressers from around the world! It’s that time of the month again when we share an interesting interview with a WordPress professional with our readers. This time, we’re keeping it short with our guest Josh Pollock, who is responding Continue reading Josh Pollock Interview – “Most People Choose WordPress Because They Are Told It’s Free, and Then They Are Kind of Stuck”
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!
Hello and welcome to a new edition of our monthly interview series! In this one, we’re talking with Sunita Rai – the leader of the marketing team at ThemeGrill. We’ll talk about marketing (obviously), business, and WordPress. Enjoy! The post Continue reading Sunita Rai Interview – “Just Start. Don’t Wait For the Right Time and Resources. If You Have a Unique Idea to Help People With an Existing Problem, Try It”
Next week, the 27th annual Webby Awards will be presented in front of a live audience at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The star-studded event, which recognizes excellence in web design and development, has been dubbed “the Internet’s Continue reading WordPress Wins Big at The Webby Awards
At the end of 2021—and in alignment with WP Engine’s core value of “Committed to Give Back”—the block-based Full Site Editing theme, Frost, was acquired and open-sourced. By freely distributing Frost to a growing user base, it became an experimental Continue reading Introducing Frost Version 1.0
Winners were announced this week for the 27th annual Webby Awards, including more than 60 innovative digital projects that make up the fourth Crafted with Code: a unique and interactive showcase of some of the best Webby-recognized websites brought to Continue reading The Stories Behind Webby-Nominated Sites
Hello and welcome to a new interview as part of our monthly series! Today, we’re talking with Pavel Ciorici, the founder and CEO of WPZoom. Stick with us for your dose of insights into WordPress and online business. The post Continue reading Pavel Ciorici Interview – “A New Business Entering the Online Space Should Release a Minimum Viable Product as Soon as Possible”
After weeks of close calls and tight races, Torque Magazine has announced the winner of this year’s Plugin Madness competition. Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has taken home the crown, earning the votes to secure a first place finish in the Continue reading ACF Crowned Winner of Torque’s Plugin Madness 2023