Prepare Your WordPress Platform for 2025: A Strategic Audit Guide

Let’s break down the key areas to look out for: Performance That Drives Revenue Your platform’s speed isn’t just a technical metric—it’s a business driver.  Focus on: Smart publishers know, every millisecond impacts revenue potential. Editorial Workflow Efficiency Content teams thrive when technology enables rather than hinders.  Evaluate: Because in digital publishing, speed to market […]

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Preparing Your WordPress Site for Holiday Traffic: A Guide for Media Publishers

Four Critical Areas to Address 1. Publishing Workflow Preparation 2. Performance Optimization 3. Team Coordination 4. Platform security Practical Steps for Your Team Before the Traffic Surge Monitor these essential indicators: Industry Best Practices Leading publishers prepare for holiday traffic by: Long-term Benefits Preparing for holiday traffic surges delivers lasting advantages: Next Steps The goal […]

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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 […]

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WP 6.2: Opt-In Change Boosts Caching Performance up to 70%

Recent improvements to caching in WordPress core made by our Senior Engineer Jonny Harris can provide a serious boost to your website performance—but for now, they’re opt-in only. Here’s everything you need to know: In this article, we’ll learn: What is Object Caching and How Does it Work? In WordPress, posts, images, users, and all […]

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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 […]

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5 Reasons WordPress 6.1 is a Release Like No Other

WordPress 6.1 is finally here—and it packs a punch! The latest release contains all new publishing features, powerful performance enhancements, and extended flexibility for developers. Here’s our run-down of why 6.1 might just be the most exciting WordPress release yet. 1. A Refined Publishing Experience Improved Blocks & Design Tools WordPress 6.1 brings a bunch […]

XWP & WordPress VIP: Supercharging eCommerce Performance

When it comes to eCommerce, reach, visibility and a low-friction user experience are all crucial to seeing your products thrive. Here’s how performance enhancements, a re-imagined design language, and improved hosting with our partners at WordPress VIP enabled one eCommerce business to take their business to the next level. Services Provided The Discovery Process Our […]

How We Built a World-First Rendering Solution for OFX

To improve site scalability and search engine discoverability, we set out to rebuild OFX’s user interface—but existing solutions didn’t fit their business needs. Here’s how one XWP developer’s intuition led to a brand new solution, empowering more people than ever before to harness the power of server-side rendering for React elements. Background What is OFX? […]