Celebrating International Women’s Day 2024

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is #InspireInclusion. Imagine a gender-equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women’s equality. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions, but when […]

XWP at WordFest Live 2022

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, […]

How to Build a Rocket: Best Practices for Better Web Performance

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 […]

XWP Announces Expanded Contribution to WordPress Core Performance

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 […]

The Future Is Open: State of the Word 2021

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 […]

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Better Online Experiences with Web Stories

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 […]

Program Launch: Web Stories for Publishers

XWP is excited to announce a pilot program to help publishers of all kinds adopt Google Web Stories onto their WordPress websites.  Web Stories allow you to feature full-screen video, photos and audio seamlessly: From sizzling tasty food to impressive drone flyovers—leveraging the tappable, immersive format makes it feel like you’re somewhere else without leaving […]

Is that Plugin Secure?

A WordPress website is a lot like a house. WordPress, the CMS, provides the foundation, the theme is the walls, doors, windows, and utilities, while the plugins provide everything else: intricate crown molding, fancy furniture, and decorations. Just like with a house, you want to ensure you’re building your website with the highest-quality components possible. […]