Supercharging Performance Across a Portfolio of Sites

Our partner creates some of the world’s most popular health and wellness content. Here’s how a sustained focus on technical performance helped them create lightning-fast user experiences across their portfolio. Services Provided When we first met their team, our partners were looking to invest in the user experience of two of their leading brands. They […]

Women and Non-Binary Folx of XWP

Hey there, I’m Francesca Marano, the Director of Engineering (Learning & Growth) at XWP, and today I want to share with you some insights from some of our fabulous women and non-binary folx here at XWP on their experiences in WordPress.  But first, let me give you a little background on myself. I co-led the […]

DE{CODE} 2023: Demystifying Core Web Vitals

At WP Engine’s DE{CODE} 2023 event, our Director of Frontend Engineering Mike Crantea joined a panel of performance experts for an in-depth look at the best practices and tools for understanding and improving your Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores on your WordPress site. Here’s our roundup! In this article, we’ll learn: Watch the Full Panel […]

Creating a Product Plugin for a Leading Streaming Platform

Through the power of a bespoke WordPress-powered extension, selected streamers now have the ability to add interactive, customizable shopping experiences to their streams. Services Provided Challenge: Our partner promotes products through broadcasts on its brand-owned channels. Their team wanted to provide an easy way for viewers to access those products directly, without having to leave […]

Is Learning React Necessary for Block Development?

Watch the Live Talk from WordCamp Asia 2023 WordPress development used to be mostly about writing PHP and sometimes adding in sprinkles of JavaScript. But since 5.0, you can now rarely talk about WordPress development without mentioning JavaScript or more specifically React, the JavaScript library which the Block Editor is written in. So is learning […]

Why Discovery is Crucial to Winning the Race

Every XWP project kicks off with a process called discovery, where we map our goals against a solution, explore current architecture, and account for any delivery risks. Here’s why this part of the process is so important if you want to outperform the competition. Success is a Marathon, Not a Sprint Let’s imagine you’re sitting […]

A HUGE Awards Season for XWP

It’s December, which means it’s awards season—and this year XWP won big! From being named as a top 1% agency on Clutch to gaining official Great Place to Work certification, here’s how we’re ending 2022:  Clutch Global Awards 2022 Throughout the year, our partners leave us reviews on Clutch, An independent review platform that helps […]

XWP Officially Gains “Great Place to Work” Status

We’re incredibly excited to announce that our all-remote workplace is now officially certified as a Great Place to Work! After spending almost a decade building an inclusive and valuable community we’re thrilled and humbled to have official recognition. 92% of employees at XWP say it is a great place to work compared to 57% of […]