InfoStride Named a WordPress VIP Public Sector Agency Partner

We are proud to present InfoStride as our first agency partner in the public sector. While we have several agency partners for the commercial sector, InfoStride is our first in the public domain, making them a pivotal addition to our partner portfolio.

InfoStride brings more than 25 years of seasoned experience in delivering digital transformation services and solutions to diverse industries. With a progressive yet pragmatic approach, they work hand-in-hand with clients to fully leverage WordPress and WooCommerce to optimize productivity, adoption, and business results.

InfoStride provides top performance, and flexibility, making them equipped to handle challenges in updating current website structure or starting a plan of action from scratch.

InfoStride’s key competencies

• WordPress and WordPress VIP migration from any CMS (Shopify, Drupal, Big Commerce)
• Integration of different tech frameworks to WordPress (Django, Laravel)
• UI/UX optimization through conversion rate
• Theme and plugin customizations
• Speed optimization using WordPress
• WordPress VIP multisite setup 
• WordPress compliant code auditdited
• Website performance optimization

Industries served

InfoStride provides extensive experience in a variety of industries, including the public sector, banking, real estate, education, ecommerce, healthcare, and much more. Their commitment to excellence and eye for detail make them a great asset to any client.

Flagship customers and projects

Meta

InfoStride developed a Community Access website for Meta’s state and policy team using WordPress VIP. They worked closely with the WordPress VIP team for the code review, plugins validation,and overall deployment process. InfoStride’s team of experts developed custom templates and multiple user access to connect local communities with economic opportunities within Meta.

Olmafood

InfoStride worked to develop a premium plugin theme from scratch, allowing multiple customizations, using WooCommerce to support Olmafood’s ecommerce solution.

“We’re thrilled to be the first public sector partner with WordPress VIP and hope for a long, fruitful association. We envision it to be a spectacular opportunity for both companies to benefit from each other in industry exposure and respective fields of expertise. The goal is to bring business and recognition to each other, by creating a system that works seamlessly for both companies. Here’s to growing together!” 

— Ritu Mangla, CEO and founder, InfoStride

Connect with InfoStride on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Learn more about InfoStride’s partnership with WordPress VIP

w3nuts Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome w3nuts as a new WordPress VIP agency partner! 

As their name suggests, they are passionate about the World Wide Web, with an ardent focus on all things digital. 

That philosophy is what unifies and motivates the skilled w3nuts creative team of designers and engineers, who devote themselves to creating innovative, out-of-the-box solutions. Their work includes web applications, mobile application services, and ecommerce portals, from MVP products to full SaaS offerings.

Starting a multifunctional digital services firm germinated from a resounding goal: draft a team of versatile developers to create personalized, comprehensive, and sustainable digital solutions for a variety of business players in today’s rapidly evolving global marketplace.

As noted, w3nuts is a business founded on passion. In fact, their co-founders, each with more than 12 years of experience in IT, originally worked in the logistics sector, a background they continue to proudly leverage today to stand out from competitors. 

Clients include ShowPlatform LLC, the recipient of major funding after having an MVP developed by w3nuts.

“Becoming a WordPress VIP Partner is a significant accomplishment. Our goal is to offer unparalleled quality services to all of our clients and partners around the world. If you can conceive it, we can build it. Nothing is impossible.”

— Samir Kaila, Partner & Founder, w3nuts

Learn more about the partnership here.

PMC Makes the Switch to Gutenberg Block Editor

BigWP NYC presentation: How media giant Penske Media Corporation made the lives of their editorial staffs easier with a surer WordPress block editor.

Convincing hundreds of editors across dozens of websites to adopt a new, more efficient way to edit and publish breaking news, features, and blogs is headline news in itself.  

In 2018, Penske Media Corporation (PMC), parent company to a star-power media portfolio including Variety, Rolling Stone, Deadline Hollywood, and Billboard, decided the time was right to switch all their brands’ websites to a faster, cleaner WordPress editor—Gutenberg. It was a daring, multi-phased, two-and-a-half-year project that concluded in September 2022. 

Delivering such a large-scale, visionary change while overcoming “general editorial reluctance” was a delicate balancing act. Seeding editorial staffs and other stakeholders with the big idea of a “better block editor” paved the way, even touting as modest an idea as “easier cutting and pasting from Word.”

Hear how they did it from PMC’s Nicola Catton, Vice President of Product Delivery, and Gabriel Koen Vice President, Technology, as they dive into their PMC’s Switch to Gutenberg presentation at BigWP NYC. 

About BigWP

BigWP is the gathering spot for big thinkers doing big things with WordPress. 

We bring together developers, business leads, and product people who work with high-scale WordPress applications every day.

Explore all the talks from our November 2022 NYC event in our BigWP NYC 2022 playlist. 

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KrishaWeb Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome KrishaWeb as a new agency partner! 

Based in Asia Pacific and North America, they are an end-to-end, web and digital solution provider specializing in digital transformation, advanced customization, technology and business consulting, partnership development, and scaling on-shore and off-shore teams.

Offering state-of-the-art, advanced WordPress development and digital strategies, KrishaWeb are experts in user experience design, enterprise custom WordPress development, and platform migration for verticals including enterprise and large corporations, government, healthcare, tech, and service providers. 

Their clients include the World Health Organization (WHO), Society for International Development, Honolulu-Pacific Federal Executive Board, South Florida Banking Institute, International Finance Bank, and Schar School of Policy and Government.

KrishaWeb adheres to a process-driven, systematic implementation methodology, delivering cost-efficient, innovative, feature-rich design, and user-friendly performance. They help clients’ businesses excel through “immense passion, boundless aspiration, and creative inspiration,” delivering digital requirements with the highest level of accuracy, while meeting the stringest of deadlines. 

Established in 2008, KrishaWeb fosters a culture that thrives on innovative and can-do mindsets, always with a collaborative, customer-centric focus. Their 100+ strong team, spread across multiple verticals, adheres to the agency’s core values of honor, accountability, empowerment, and integrity.

“It is our privilege to become a WordPress VIP partner. WordPress VIP helps our seasoned team provide an unmatched technology experience to our valued customers.”

Parth Pandya

Learn more about the partnership here.

Digital Accessibility Solution Provider Level Access Named a WordPress VIP Technology Partner

Online inclusion and equality are foundational priorities for WordPress VIP. That’s why we’re incredibly proud to welcome Level Access to our growing list of technology partners as our exclusive digital accessibility solution provider.

WordPress VIP customers will now have access to the Level Access solution. This equips web designers, developers, and content authors with the technology and expert services support to create websites and web content that are accessible for individuals with disabilities. It also ensures sites are compliant with anti-discrimination laws, like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

“Digital accessibility is a critical component of any modern digital experience. As the digital accessibility pioneers, we are thrilled to partner with WordPress VIP, a proven leader in the CMS space. Together, we will empower organizations of every size and scale to create exceptional customer experiences for every user of every ability, advancing our shared passion of making the online world accessible for all.”

— Tim Springer, Level Access CEO

Digital accessibility: A moral and business imperative

More than one billion people globally live with a disability that may impact the way they interact with digital content—or whether they can interact at all. As we deepen our dependence on digital connection, creating websites that are accessible to individuals with disabilities is both a moral and business imperative.

Accessible digital experiences not only ensure equality of access for those living with a disability, they also authentically demonstrate a brand’s commitment to inclusion. Consumers have come to expect an accessible online experience, and trends in litigation support this expectation. Every year, thousands of companies are sued for websites, apps, and other digital products that aren’t accessible. Those lawsuits cite an inaccessible digital experience as a violation of laws such the ADA, or Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, as well as other global and state-level regulations.

Level Access: Advanced software + expert support services

Level Access empowers organizations with the advanced software and support to make digital experiences accessible, meeting global compliance requirements. Its platform provides a complete overview of the progress of digital accessibility work on every asset. With dashboards, integrations, and issue tracking, teams have the resources, reporting, testing, and tooling to clearly and confidently manage their accessibility program at scale.

Coupled with this advanced technology, the Level Access solution also includes access to expert managed services, such as code-level technical expertise, legal support, program management strategy, and role-specific accessibility training.

Additionally, the Level Access accessibility management platform, AMP, is the market’s only FedRAMP Authorized platform of its kind, meeting the rigorous compliance requirements of the U.S. government.

Request a demo of the Level Access Platform.

Learn more about the Level Access digital accessibility solution here.

Rebrand, Rebuild, Reduce, and Reboot: Future Proofing Nielsen.com

BigWP NYC presentation: How media giant Nielsen streamlined its site migration with WordPress and Gutenberg.

In the best of environments, website rebrands are not entered into lightly. Platforming challenges, data migration, and securing buy-in from senior stakeholders on the business and technical sides of an organization can derail things all along the way. 

In July 2021, Nielsen bit the bullet and knew it was time to undertake a massive rebrand of their global website properties, which two years earlier had migrated from Adobe CQ to WordPress VIP. 

Nielsen’s lofty aims for the multi-phase, deadline-driven effort? Leverage the flexibility of WordPress core and Gutenberg blocks to improve and scale user and multilingual experiences, “clean house” on outdated content, reduce the footprint of their database, enhance content tracking, and pivot everything away from a B2C slant to a B2B focus.

Hear how they did it from Nielsen’s Katharine Olsen, who drives brand awareness for Nielsen’s global websites, and web developer Spencer McCormick as they dive into their Rebrand, Rebuild, Reduce, and Reboot: Future Proofing Nielsen.com presentation at BigWP NYC. 

About BigWP

BigWP is the gathering spot for big thinkers doing big things with WordPress. 

We bring together developers, business leads, and product people who work with high-scale WordPress applications every day.

Explore all the talks from our November 2022 NYC event in our BigWP NYC 2022 playlist. 

You may also be interested in:

• A Brand(ed) New World for the Enterprise WordPress Community

40Q Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome 40Q as a new agency partner! They are our first agency based in South America. They are experts in large enterprise, higher education, and startup WordPress development.

40Q helps customers who have large-scale content needs and challenges, including:

• Enterprises with multiple subsites across the globe.
• Higher education institutions looking to spread their message and brand across different sites.
• Startups that rely on WordPress as their CMS of choice.

These are major benefits of working with 40Q as your development agency:

• Professional development: 40Q uses modern development tools, applying best coding practices from frameworks like Laravel or React to WordPress.
• Security and monitoring: 40Q’s team of devOps experts, working alongside WordPress VIP, help your site scale on demand and mitigate security threats.
• High performance and SEO-friendly: 40Q provides blazingly fast, responsive websites, constantly iterating with clients to drive the best organic SEO results.
• Accessibility: 40Q helps ensure all audiences have equal access to your services and sites, while your properties comply with accessibility laws.
• Sales tools integration: 40Q optimizes lead generation by integrating your website’s forms into your preferred CRM.

What drives 40Q’s digital development philosophy

Behind every advancement in human evolution was an engineering process. Think about it: whenever you click a link to consume, learn, or share something, an engineer visualized it first. 

Making life better and simpler often requires complex engineering. But here’s the paradox: true advancement must be easy to adopt, almost invisible. That’s especially true today, when digital ecosystems have become neuralgic and can expand your business beyond borders.

40Q understands all this. In fact, the “must be easy to adopt” philosophy is in their development DNA. When you work with 40Q, they’ll help you think about what matters most for your business—and leverage great digital engineering to simplify your life and your customers’ lives. 

“As a member of the WordPress community for more than 10 years, I know that choosing the right partners (teammates, customers, and vendors) can make the difference between success and failure. By becoming a WordPress VIP partner, we opt to keep the bar high and strengthen our search for excellence.”

— José Debuchy – Founder + CEO

Learn more about the partnership here.

Fetchly Labs LLC Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome Fetchly Labs LLC as a new agency partner! 

Providing dev teams as a service, Fetchly is a web and mobile application development company headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more than six years Fetchly has developed software systems with various components (web, mobile, backend, data handling) alongside many talented organizations. 

We have deep experience in the software development industry and love bringing our talents forward to solve new problems for clients. Our team is a collection of talented individuals with proven expertise in software development, product creation, project management, design, and quality assurance.

Our developers have decades of experience in WordPress, WooCommerce, third-party integrations, data driven systems, ecommerce, messaging systems (chat, SMS, email, push notifications), and mobile development.

Our team is adept at developing engineering applications, leading software teams, and working with startups, large enterprise companies, and small businesses. From billion dollar trading and financial firms to vacation rental, scientific and adtech startups, our background helps maintain a broad technical-leadership perspective and a pulse on the innovations that drive business and solutions for clients.  

Our approach is to provide our clients with: 

1. Design and planning
2. Feature development
3. Testing and polishing 
4. Maintenance and monitoring 

Learn more about our approach.

“We are excited to announce that the Fetchly Lab services are now part of the WordPress VIP partner program! WordPress VIP customers will benefit from  access to our large team of app development experts — all backed by the WordPress VIP team’s insights and resources.”

– Michael Huey, Founder

Learn more about the partnership here. 

Vast Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome Vast as a new agency partner! They are a boutique development shop founded and based in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA. They focus on the marriage of high design with WordPress development.  

Vast believes design and development are intertwined. A boutique dev shop that believes a hands-on approach to every aspect of a project is the only way to do business, they boast a diverse team with backgrounds in both fine design and back-end development. 

Trained in a top New York design school, their founder, Andrew Cameron Zahn, is a specialist in digital design and fine art. He recently spoke for The Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia at an event that included Cliff Kuang, UX Lead at Google. Over the past 25 years, the Democratic National Committee, CTL Aerospace, American Cancer Society, University of Pennsylvania, Nuclear Energy Institute, and many others have partnered with Vast to develop innovative digital solutions. 

Select clients

Vast recently did a full overhaul for CTL Aerospace, a Cincinnati-based manufacturer and defense company. This included a full rebrand: videography, drone footage, logos, fonts, color scheme, front end, and back-end WordPress development. 

“We are overwhelmed with excitement to be joining the WordPress VIP family! Being a WordPress dev shop for many years has enabled us to become experts in this area. Partnering with WordPress VIP will only serve to propel our business to the next level—we look forward to collaborating with a range of new clients and of course WordPress VIP!”

—Andrew Cameron Zahn, owner, Vast Design and Development

Learn more about the partnership here. 

Inverse Paradox Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to announce Inverse Paradox as a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner! This solidifies their reputation as one of the best website development agencies on the planet.

Because site stakeholders may not know if they simply need to pile on plugins or consider a complete website redesign to grow sales, Inverse Paradox takes a consultative approach—offering a free website consultation to ensure the perfect business solution. This commitment has helped build Inverse’s reputation as one of the most knowledgeable and strategic WordPress and WooCommerce agencies available. 

As a Silver Agency Partner, Inverse Paradox has proven that their expert-level services deliver large-scale, best-in-class digital solutions for some of the world’s largest organizations and brands. Their demonstrated excellence in creative collaboration results in rich and intuitive user experiences that connect businesses and consumers in a way that builds brand affinity and loyalty. Whether supporting enterprise ecommerce businesses with complex technical solutions or simply helping the Mom and Pop bakery down the street modernize their family business, the team at Inverse Paradox approaches each new project with the goal of fostering successful long-term relationships.

Since WordPress’s inception in 2003, the software platform has grown to be the premier content management system for the web, its open source approach resonating with users. As it’s expanded to fuel enterprise-level solutions, WordPress has raised the bar for ecommerce businesses around the world. 

The WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner designation signifies that Inverse supplies clean, secure, and mistake-free code that adheres to industry best practices. These standards ensure that websites can withstand heavy traffic, eliminate vulnerability concerns, and improve their speed and performance. 

Free website redesign consultation

Inverse Paradox begins each project by offering a free website in-depth consultation with key stakeholders to identify core solutions that address specific business objectives. This concept of shared ownership and collaboration produces award-winning ecommerce experiences that help businesses grow and achieve more. 

The approach:

1. Free Website Redesign Consultation
2. Detailed proposal
3. Project kick-off
   1. Discovery
   2. Design
   3. Production
   4. Validation
   5. Launch

“As an agency having worked with WordPress for over 14 years to produce complex websites and ecommerce experiences, we are excited to partner with WordPress VIP to deliver a higher level of scale, performance and security to our growing clients.”

— Neil Harner, Founder, Inverse Paradox