I'm about to go live with Jonny Waters, Lead Product Designer for Newsroom at @wpengine, about designing accessibility into WordPress products and making accessible experiences easier for everyone to create. Watch here and say hi in the chat! piped.video/watch?v=QozYAAZd…

Hi! Regarding the vulnerability patched in WordPress 7.1.2, WP Engine Security has tested our platform and customer sites are not vulnerable by default. There are unusual edge cases that are still theoretically exploitable and our engineering teams will apply patches as per our corporate vulnerability management policy.

We’re excited to announce the launch of WP Engine Commerce Connect for @BigCommerce! WP Engine Commerce Connect for BigCommerce helps brands preserve their WordPress store while adding scalability, performance, and enterprise commerce capabilities. Scale your shop and get started here: wpengine.com/scalable-ecomme…

We are deeply saddened by the tragic passing of Joshua Baer. Josh was a major pillar of Austin’s tech and startup community and mentored many businesses and entrepreneurs in our space. The Capital Factory, Josh’s startup accelerator and coworking space, was the first home for WP Engine, and Josh himself, our first angel investor. We are grateful for his early belief in us and for his guidance throughout our journey. Josh believed in ideas and the people behind them and dedicated his career to helping founders build, grow, and succeed. His leadership and kindness will be incredibly missed within the community. Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends.

ICYMI: Global Edge Security (GES) now has customizable bot management functionalities! 🤖 These new features give web teams deeper visibility to control and manage unwanted bot traffic. With just a few clicks, teams can activate strategies to better manage harmful bot activity without disrupting legitimate visitors: wpengine.com/press-releases/…

Start building for what’s next. ⏭️ This year’s DE{CODE} Developer track is packed with deep dives into the tools and architectures that will help you build for both human visitors and AI agents. From the future of ACF to the unmatched flexibility of Headless, here’s a preview of what we’re bringing to the stage. Register now: bit.ly/48ap0h3

We've acquired WPackagist. If you use Composer to manage WordPress plugins and themes, you probably already know it. Now it's part of the WP Engine family. WPackagist enables developers to install and manage WordPress plugins and themes using Composer, the PHP dependency manager. Millions of requests every week with thousands of developers relying on it daily. It's essential infrastructure for modern development on WordPress software. WPackagist joins Local, ACF, WP Migrate, and WP Offload Media in our developer tools lineup. We believe that ensuring the stability and reliability of critical developer infrastructure is essential to the WordPress ecosystem. Big thanks to @outlandish for building and maintaining @wpackagist for over a decade. We're proud to carry it forward. Read more: wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-…

WP Engine has been honored with two 2026 Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer service, recognizing our commitment to both innovation and human-led support. These awards celebrate how our Customer Experience and Digital Customer Experience Teams combine empathetic support with cutting-edge AI to deliver faster, smarter, and more seamless experiences for our customers, 24/7 around the globe. Thank you to our incredible teams whose dedication helped bring our lifetime Stevie count to 18 🏆 Learn more about the significance of these awards and how our teams earned this recognition: wpeng.in/65dfb6/

By replacing disjointed workflows with a unified operations suite, WP Engine Newsroom ensures that your technology is an enabler of great content, not a blocker. From real-time collaboration to streamlined publishing, we’re helping media organizations scale like never before. wpengine.com/newsroom-platfo…

Ready to elevate your editorial operations with a purpose-built, unified platform? Introducing WP Engine Newsroom: The New Platform for Editorial Excellence. Learn more: bit.ly/3ZbTL0f

We’re excited to announce the appointment of McAlister Southern as SVP of customer success at WP Engine! McAlister will lead our global Customer Success team, reinforcing our commitment to delivering award-winning customer experiences. McAlister brings more than 15 years of experience scaling global customer value and account management in customer success organizations across major technology platforms. Please join us in welcoming McAlister to the team! wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-…

We're excited to announce that WP Engine has acquired Big Bite, a leading enterprise agency recognized for developing advanced editorial tools that significantly enhance how global brands and media organizations create and share digital content. Big Bite’s publishing expertise has helped transform the digital ecosystems of some of the world’s biggest media brands, including The Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Metro, and Macworld. Today’s announcement demonstrates WP Engine’s commitment to serve publishers with products that enable them. Read more: wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-…

AI is reshaping how the web operates and rapidly disrupting workflows for marketers, publishers, and developers, and WP Engine has been intensifying its commitment to providing cutting-edge, enterprise-grade solutions and tools, such as our robust AI Toolkit to support our customers’ success in the wake of AI. To accelerate this strategic focus, we are delighted to announce the appointment of Google veteran Thierry Muller as VP of AI Products, joining our product and engineering team to lead our pivotal AI initiatives. As we look toward 2026, our intention is to make websites more intelligent, serving both human users and the growing number of AI agents, to ensure our customers and agency partners stay ahead of the curve. Thierry joins us from Google, where he successfully established the official WordPress Core Performance Team, developed SiteKit by Google (the most popular and rapidly adopted plugin), and other ecosystem programs that drove significant performance impact across WordPress and the web overall. During his tenure at Google, he successfully led strategic efforts across web platforms, open-source ecosystems, and AI. Please join us in giving Thierry a warm welcome to the team! wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-…

Our 2025 Website Traffic Trends Report is here, revealing how non-human traffic, uneven global performance, and widening security gaps are reshaping the modern web. Here’s what every digital team needs to know: wpengine.com/website-traffic…

"AI-powered engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini are reshaping how people search, how answers are delivered, and what ‘discoverability’ really means. The traditional SEO playbook alone won’t carry us forward.” WP Engine CMO Darcy Kurtz shares her insight on the shift from SEO to GEO with @hostingnewsnow. 🔎 Check out the full article here: hostingadvice.com/blog/human…

We’re introducing MCP for Smart Search AI, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects agents, LLMs, and AI systems of all kinds to your real-time website content. It’s a foundational shift that ensures AI answers are always grounded in truth, not yesterday’s stale scraped data. Read more about how MCP redefines what’s possible in the age of AI: wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-…

We’re excited to announce WP Engine’s expansion into the UAE! 🌍 Our Dubai launch brings enterprise-grade WordPress experiences closer to large-scale businesses and agencies building on Microsoft Azure, enabling faster, more secure, and scalable digital experiences. Learn more: wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-…

The web can change the world. We're showcasing powerful Code for Good websites with @TheWebbyAwards. See how empathy in design drives real impact. Explore the inspiring stories from nonprofits & mission-driven brands in our official playlist: wpeng.in/crafted-with-code-2…

Find our team at #OnlineRetailer today and tomorrow! Don't forget to stop by our booth to chat with our team!

See our new AI Toolkit in action! 🚀 @fran_the_dev created a how-to guide that uses WP Engine’s AI Toolkit, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and Google Gemini to deliver accurate and contextually relevant responses in a chatbot within Next.js App Router. wpeng.in/70a0bb/