Highlighting Over a Decade of WordPress Contribution and Commitment

WordCamp US, which is wrapping up today in Portland, marks another milestone in WordPress’ ongoing evolution. The event brought together enthusiastic WordPress users from near and far and featured insightful sessions, workshops, and vibrant discussions, all highlighting the exciting momentum within the WordPress community.

WordPress thrives thanks to a broad spectrum of developers, builders, agencies, and businesses committed to its success. WP Engine is proud to be part of this remarkable ecosystem, powering the freedom to create for more than 1.5 million WordPress sites and more than a million developers using our web-building tools.

Advancing the WordPress CMS for over a decade

Since our founding in 2010, WP Engine has been deeply dedicated to advancing the use and adoption of WordPress through innovation, investment, and active community involvement. 

We’ve always been laser-focused on helping people succeed with WordPress, enabling them to build websites that are performant, scalable, and secure. These capabilities are essential for the many businesses that rely on WordPress for their mission-critical digital needs. 

Beyond our proprietary platform and deep technical expertise, we’ve partnered with thousands of agencies as they build and grow their own WordPress businesses. These creative pioneers play a monumental role in the growth of WordPress’ dynamic ecosystem, building a large portion of the websites that make WordPress the most popular CMS in the world. 

By empowering agencies with the tools, resources, and support they need, WP Engine helps drive innovation and ensures WordPress continues to flourish as the preferred way to build websites for creators and businesses alike.

Consistent support and dedication to the WordPress community

As WordPress has matured, the community surrounding it has grown and expanded much beyond the core project. 

As such, and in addition to our employee-led work on WordPress Core code, our contributions have included tens of millions of dollars in ongoing support for the broader community through events, sponsorships, and the development of educational resources.

As an example, beyond our sponsorships of the core community WordCamps worldwide, we produce educational events like DE{CODE}, which bring thousands of developers together to learn and grow with WordPress.

We’re also passionate about educating and empowering the WordPress community through content like the WordPress Roundup and our Building WordPress series. Our deep archives of WordPress-focused content, from our Resource and Support hubs to Torque and Velocitize, cover everything from technical troubleshooting and thought leadership to digital marketing and business insights.  

Additionally, we regularly produce informative webinars, podcasts, and tutorials supported by our Developer Relations team, all designed to help WordPress users and developers succeed in their more advanced technical projects.

Vast investment in the WordPress ecosystem

Like the community that fuels it, the WordPress ecosystem has also grown and expanded enormously over the past decade, extending well beyond the core WordPress project. 

The contributions that WP Engine as an organization, and so many of our people make to this wider world of WordPress go past the core software itself and include the investment of significant resources into growing the ecosystem of developers, users, and organizations that can use WordPress, creating new and sophisticated use cases.

Our ongoing support for modern web frameworks, exemplified by the development of Faust.js, WPGraphQL, and our Headless WordPress platform, is a testament to the way we’re pushing the boundaries of what WordPress can do.

These and the other tools and innovations we proudly steward offer developers new pathways for using WordPress, extending its flexibility and making it an even more powerful solution for businesses of all sizes. 

Whether it’s through headless architecture or advanced customization tools like Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) or Genesis Blocks, WP Engine is committed to ensuring the WordPress CMS remains at the forefront of the modern web.

Supporting your freedom to create

WP Engine’s commitment to WordPress and its passionate community is unwavering. We’re proud to partner with and provide the ecosystem with an enterprise-grade experience chosen by an amazing cohort of creators, agencies, and businesses who continue to impress us with their commitment to help drive freedom, creativity, and innovation for everyone. 

WP Engine will remain at the forefront, finding new and exciting ways to drive the WordPress ecosystem’s success for years to come in partnership with this vibrant, innovative community.