WP Engine

WP Engine raised $15 million in VC, grew customer base 27% last quarter

Brian Krogsgard

January 14, 2014

WP Engine is making another splash with the announcement of a $15 million round of venture capital from North Bridge Growth. I first saw the announcement on TechCrunch, but it's also on VentureBeat. Torque, WP Engine's WordPress publication, also noted…

ZippyKid relaunches as Pressable, makes changes to business

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2013

BusinessHosting

ZippyKid is a managed WordPress host that's been around around three and a half years. They have grown their business consistently since their launch in May 2010, and today have a number of high profile blogs and corporate profiles as…

WP Engine rebrands and restructures

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2013

BusinessHosting

Few brands in tech have skyrocketed in exposure like WP Engine in the past couple of years. WP Engine has experienced massive growth, and they are showing signs of acting very much like a grown up company. Rebranding WP Engine…

Tips for marketing WordPress products

Brian Krogsgard

August 21, 2013

Business

I see a lot of WordPress products and product websites as a consultant. I also get "pitched" a pretty decent amount, requesting me to check out someone's new product to blog about here. Because of this experience seeing and judging…

All plugins are (not) created equal

Sarah Pressler

July 30, 2013

DesignSecurity

Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…

WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WP Engine has been working on Torque for a number of months. Their tagline for it, as it turns out, is "The WordPress News Core." Beyond that, they don't particularly say on the site how they plan to frame the…

How to pick the WordPress plugin with the best support

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

WordPress News

Austin Gunter gives some good tips on the WP Engine blog about how to pick WordPress plugins that are likely to have good support. It's definitely a bit of a science, and when you think of picking plugins that will…

President Obama visits WP Engine’s office

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2013

CareersWordPress News

Well, consider me jealous. During his trip to Austin, Texas last week, President Obama made a stop at the Capital Factory offices. He visited with the companies that work there, including WP Engine. Obama's visit was to promote job creation,…

WordPress Core is Secure

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2013

Make WordPressSecurity

Jason Cosper writes on the WP Engine blog that people need to stop saying WordPress is not secure, because it is. WordPress Core is rarely cause for security concerns, and hasn't been for some time. However, due to WordPress' massive…

Alex King on the maturity of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2013

WordPress News

Austin Gunter has interviewed Alex King on the WP Engine blog about the maturity of WordPress. I'm only part way through the 4,000+ words, but it's a great read so far. Alex brings enormously valuable perspective to things in the…

Swiftype Search for improved WordPress search

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2013

WordPress News

Austin Gunter has done a nice feature on the WP Engine blog on a new plugin called Swiftype. It seems the folks behind Swiftype have been "blessed" by the WordPress.com VIP team as a more relevance-based search solution. I'm certainly…