CIO Bulletin

The world’s most trusted WordPress technology company, powering your freedom to create on WordPress: WP Engine

WP Engine is a new breed of technology company at the intersection of software innovation and service. The company’s platform provides brands the solutions they need to create remarkable sites and apps on WordPress that drive their business forward faster. All this is driven by a set of core values that guides us every day.

Core values of the company

WP Engine’s values are like a flame. They light the way for the company’s actions and must always be fostered. Their people are enabled and empowered to tend this flame by making values-based decisions and innovating on your behalf, so that you can build winning digital experiences. They are humbled and inspired by the role they get to play in your business.

Do the right thing: When its right for the customer and the company, and you’re proud of your decision, you’ve done the right thing.

Customer inspired: WP Engine is grateful for their role in their customers’ lives; when they win, it’s the company’s win.

Design matters: WP Engine is proud of their work when it is intentionally designed and thoughtfully crafted.

Committed to give back: WP Engine believes that great leaders give back and inspire others to do the same.

Built for growth: When the firm wins, they celebrate their success and stay hungry. When they fail, they embrace opportunities to improve and learn.

WP Engine is an Engine for Good

WP Engine has always had a strong approach to giving back to their community, giving back to their employees, and giving back to their industry. This commitment is woven throughout their core values from Do the right thing to Aspiring to lead. Committed to give back.

Engine for Good encompasses the organization’s complete corporate social responsibility program and represents their commitment to upholding these core values, and staying dedicated to helping their community in every aspect.

What makes WP Engine the best managed WordPress host?

Think of a managed WordPress host as a dedicated technical assistant that powers your website. This includes threat detection and blocking, daily backups, regular WordPress updates, caching to boost page speeds, and more. WP Engine additionally equips you with premium tools to design, build, and launch your website with ease and 24/7 live support should you need it.

Showcase the value of your services to clients

Open the communication flood gates with automated client reports
With Flywheel Growth Suite, you can easily create and schedule branded reports with integrated Google Analytics, WordPress updates, and any recent work done on their site. Create strong client relationships and effortlessly demonstrate your agency’s value.

Maintain ongoing relationships with clients
Improve transparency between your agency and your clients
Increase subscription prices and margins
Save hours not manually preparing client reports

Make data-informed decisions with an agency dashboard

Customize the look and feel of your agency management dashboard by including data points such as client report status, revenue, site usage, plugin alerts, and more. Get a holistic view of your agency and make educated decisions around your services and business strategy.

WP engine platform

The most-trusted WordPress technology company: The company’s platform is inspired by the small businesses, creative agencies, and global enterprises who trust us to keep their most important assets—their brand, their website, their business—safe, performant, and built for growth.

How you win with WP Engine & WordPress

WordPress and the flexibility of open source technology allow agencies and businesses to compete on an equal playing field. See how WP Engine can help you press ahead to compete in new ways online.

Build: Spinning up a new site? Pick from premium themes, block site-building tools, and plugins from Genesis to build beautiful websites quickly and easily.

Power: WP Engine integrates with best-in-class technology partners and optimize their technology for WordPress. Choose from shared or dedicated servers in over 20 global locations to best power your site(s).

Manage: Take advantage of automated WordPress updates, managed upgrades, daily backups, and continuous website monitoring. Technical issue? WP Engine’s expert support teams are available 24/7/365 via chat.

Optimize: On top of weekly page-level speed tests, WP Engine’s free and managed CDN loads sites quickly all over the world, and their eCommerce solutions increase page speeds up to 40%.

Focus on growing your business, not website maintenance

WP Engine’s easy-to-use tools and award-winning support team help you build WordPress websites or migrate an existing site with ease. Their premium infrastructure is designed for speed, security, stability & scalability.

Launch your eCommerce store & grow sales

WP Engine’s integrated platform is optimized for WordPress eCommerce and WooCommerce sites, helping you boost sales with streamlined store creation and Instant Store Search (powered by ElasticPress). Impress your shoppers and build a better experience at a fraction of the cost of other platforms. Explore eCommerce solutions.

The features you need to build better sites, faster

Foundation plans include powerful technology, award-winning services, and workflow tools to give your site the home it deserves.

World-class Hosting Infrastructure

Dedicated servers & server clusters
Data centers around the world
Performance monitoring of code, themes, & plugins
WordPress-optimized caching
Site content in the cloud (CDN)
WordPress multisite available for purchase

Dedicated & Advanced Security

Platform-level protection to detect threats & block attacks
Automatic WordPress & PHP updates
Free SSL certificates
WordPress-optimized WAF
Activity logs & user permissions
Multi-factor password authentication

Easy-to-use Workflow Tools

Free automated migrations
One-click staging sites
SSH access with WP-CLI, MySQL, and bash
GIT & SFTP connections
Page performance monitoring
Transferrable sites to hand off to clients

Simple Local Development

Unlimited development sites
Easy push & pull to & from staging or live sites
Automatic WordPress installation

Premium Themes & Block Tools

10 premium StudioPress themes
The Genesis Framework
Genesis block-building tools

Expert Support From WordPress Experts

24x7x365 chat & ticket support
Automated site backups
WordPress experts ready to help

Know your new site is up and running as expected

You have invested countless hours and dollars to ensure that your new website is perfect. Once it’s live, you don’t want to learn about an issue from a customer. With Site Monitoring, you can see your site’s response time and be alerted immediately if there is an outage.

Stay ahead of website problems

And uncomfortable situations. Maintaining positive client relationships is key. With the firm’s website monitoring solution, all your clients’ sites are checked regularly so you can see response time and outages. If an error has occurred, you receive an alert immediately with detailed access logs, so your agency is able to quickly resolve any issue.

Atlas: the future of Headless WordPress

Build, deploy, and manage headless websites with the power of WordPress and the best of modern web development.

Atlas Sandbox: Explore, play, and try all the goodness of Atlas in a feature-complete environment – all for FREE!

Atlas Content Modeler: Open source WordPress plugin provides developers with a simple UI for headless-first data modeling.

Blueprints: Kick-off new projects with standardized templates, pre-configured environments, and demo content.

Faust.js: Faust.js makes headless development easy by providing data fetching, authentication, and content previews.

WPGraphQL Plugin: A WordPress plugin that provides an extendable GraphQL schema and API for your Atlas WordPress sites.

Atlas Search Beta: Easily deploy dynamic search functionality and provide an experience that delivers results and engages site visitors.

Transformative performance

WP Engine is already the web's fastest Managed WordPress platform. Adding Atlas and Node.js to the stack increases speed even further, executing pages up to 10X faster than traditional WordPress.

Enterprise-grade security

A decoupled front-end served from an edge network secures your site from DDoS and other brute force attacks. Couple this with WP Engine's investment in a highly resilient and scalable WordPress platform.

Case study to prove the success

Making a Solid Investment in the Future: WP Engine Agency Partner Chillybin was engaged by Fullerton Fund Management in 2021 for a fresh website that reaches a growing audience of savvy investors.

Fullerton Fund Management is an investment firm providing equities, fixed income, and alternatives investment management services to corporate and municipal bodies worldwide. The firm was founded in 2003 and is currently headquartered in Singapore with additional offices in Shanghai, London, and Brunei.

Chillybin is a Singapore-based digital agency and WP Engine Agency Partner. The agency’s team of marketers and developers has more than 10 years of experience in WordPress website design, development, and maintenance as well as SEO, digital marketing, and eCommerce solutions.

Challenge: Create an intuitive web experience with unique content for clients across the Asia-Pacific region and broader international market while improving page speed, security, and the ability for Fullerton Fund Management’s financial experts to easily post timely market data and insights.

Solution: Chillybin leveraged WP Engine’s enterprise WordPress platform and WordPress Multisite functionality as part of its redesign. The agency also implemented a custom child theme powered by the Genesis Framework that uses simple page builders for a user-friendly back-end experience.

Results: A cleaner front-end with a clear content hierarchy has created a better user experience for Fullerton’s clients. Fullerton’s team is able to easily publish timely content and market insights without issue, and the new site is generating higher engagement and conversions.

Heather Brunner, Chairwoman and CEO

As Chairwoman and CEO of WP Engine, Heather Brunner has steered WP Engine through hyper-growth into global technology leadership. WP Engine is home to many of the WordPress community's most beloved brands including WP Engine, Flywheel, Local, Advanced Custom Fields, and Genesis. Heather has led the expansion of WP Engine from an Austin start-up to a global brand with 1200+ team members around the world with hubs in Austin, Brisbane, Limerick, London, Omaha, and Krakow to now serve millions of customers in more than 150 countries. A 30-year technology veteran, Heather has generated billions in enterprise value, delivered growth, and led business strategy for privately funded new ventures and Fortune 500 companies.

During her tenure as WP Engine CEO, Heather has been honored by Great Place to Work with the CEO Leadership for All award, EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Central Texas, the Austin Business Journal Best CEO award, and a Stevie Award for executive leadership. Heather serves on the board of directors for Camden Property Trust (NYSE: CPT), an S&P 500 company. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international economics from Trinity University.