We’re incredibly excited to have five of our incredible XWPeople speaking at WordFest Live 2022—a global celebration for all things WordPress! The virtual festival is delivered by Big Orange Heart and takes place twice a year. With more than 60 sessions delivered at each event, WordFest Live is one of the largest remote WordPress gatherings, […]
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We recently launched a new donation system for Good Friday Appeal (GFA)—an Australian charity that raises money for the Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital, allowing them to continue to provide world-class care for their patients. We’ve collaborated with GFA since early 2021, having previously re-designed their website and participated in their Neil’s Wheel fundraising event, raising […]
When it comes to building high-performance websites, small changes to the way your site functions, the content within it, or even the way you work can have a huge effect on user experience. It’s often thought that performance is all about speed—and that’s definitely a big part of it. But at XWP, we believe that […]
We’re excited to announce XWP is contributing five performance engineers to WordPress Core Performance. These WordPress Developers will work part-time on Core Performance and so drive forward XWP’s mission to make the web a better place. XWP has aimed to increase our contribution since the beginning of the community’s initiative, so we’re happy to report […]
2021 was a year of reflection, recovery and rapid digital transformation, and this year’s State of the Word (SOTW) from WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg showcased WordPress’ important role in how people and organizations communicate online. As a company, XWP was glad to host a watch party for this SOTW and could not be more enthusiastic […]
Evolving A Visual Storytelling Content Type for the Open Web XWP loves to help make the web a better place, and so we’re very excited to share Web Stories in partnership with Google. Web Stories for WordPress is an open-web visual storytelling format that enables people to create visual narratives with engaging animations and tappable […]
Chelsea, Melbourne Australia. Today, October 21, 2021, marks a milestone we have long anticipated celebrating at XWP. This month, XWP has crossed 100 XWPeople! Beyond the three-digit number, we’re thrilled about the positive impact that XWP has been able to make for our community, the clients we serve and the WordPress ecosystem that we belong […]
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: website performance is key for a successful business. With users expecting faster and faster load times, and search engines now taking website performance scores into effect, performance is more important than ever. That’s why, working with our partners Jetpack, we’ve helped launch Boost, a unique performance […]