UPQODE Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome UPQODE LLC as a new agency partner! They provide following services:

• Brand guidelines
• Custom website UI/UX design and web style guide creation
• Headless WordPress development
• Online shops and ecommerce
• Multilingual and multisite expertise
• SEO-friendly websites
• WordPress/WooCommerce support and maintenance

Since their founding in 2015, they have led 250+ sophisticated WordPress projects for small, medium, and large businesses in tech, marketing, design, non-profit, arts, consumer, real estate, healthcare, and medical, service providers, ecommerce, financial services, and other industries.

UPQODE has earned the trust of many innovative companies, allowing their portfolio to constantly expand with each new creative project. Classy, Think Tank Team (Samsung Research and Development Center), Demand Science, Radicle Health, Phoenix Art Museum, Spondylitis Association of America, Biwin Technology, MediMatrix, Panther Labs, UPS, and ASG are just some of their clients.

Through diligence and attention to detail, WordPress Agency UPQODE ensures all their clients’ business needs and requirements are met. To create optimal websites, UPQODE researches the industry and niche of each client, identifying current trends, analyzing the target audience, and investing deeply in communication throughout the entire website design and development process. They also continuously apply the latest technological standards concerning code, logic, security, and technical SEO.

“We are excited that UPQODE and our services are part of the WordPress VIP partner program! WordPress VIP customers will now have access to our design and development experts—all backed by the WordPress VIP team’s insights and resources.”

Nicolae Pasecinic

Learn more about the partnership here.

Lone Rock Point Named WordPress VIP Gold Agency Partner

WordPress VIP is proud to announce Lone Rock Point as our newest Gold Agency Partner! 

Founded in 2016, Lone Rock Point is a digital consultancy specializing in the federal government marketplace. Through bespoke technology solutions, Lone Rock Point helps organizations develop data-driven, custom-tailored solutions for telling stories in compelling, engaging ways. 

The firm specializes in design thinking, digital strategy, transformation consulting, and enterprise class digital experience design, which help clients better understand the “big picture” of their work.

A hands-on organization, Lone Rock Point works with mission-focused clients, enabling businesses and public agencies to connect deeply with customers. NASA and Metis Technology Solutions are just some of the names Lone Rock Point has partnered with. High-quality collaboration in tackling and resolving challenges together is one of the hallmarks of Lone Rock Point partnerships—with the agency serving as an extension of the client’s organization.

Lone Rock Point’s decision to partner with WordPress VIP was based in part on a shared interest in increasing adoption of WordPress in the public sector. Since its inception, the WordPress VIP partner program has expanded its roster—now more than 100+ strong—to include both agency and technology partners who support clients in using the web’s most popular CMS, WordPress. Each partner is extensively vetted by WordPress VIP before being accepted into the program. 

To that end, the combination of WordPress VIP’s platform and Lone Rock Point’s specialty in developing software, data, and content solutions form a complementary partnership to better serve firms and public agencies working with WordPress.

“When I started Lone Rock Point, I wanted to work with highly-reputable organizations in both the public and private sectors, particularly NASA and WordPress, which were already threaded in our company’s DNA. As we continue to expand into the public sector, WordPress VIP and their FedRamp-authorized enterprise platform is the perfect fit for expanding Lone Rock Point’s reputation as a go-to WordPress rich consulting agency for government.”

—J.J. Toothman, President, Lone Rock Point

Scaleflex Named a WordPress VIP Technology Partner

We are proud to welcome Scaleflex as a new technology partner! 

Scaleflex joins our growing group of partners with proven excellence in developing solutions for WordPress at scale. 

Scaleflex is a leading global B2B SaaS company that develops powerful and scalable Digital Asset Management and media acceleration solutions for clients. Their mission is improving the global web performance of WordPress websites with seamless, on-the-fly image optimization and resizing—accelerating digital content load times on all user devices.

To that end, Scaleflex recently released a modern Digital Asset Management plugin for enterprise WordPress users looking for advanced search, indexation, edition, and permission settings in WordPress.  

Scaleflex, your single source of truth for digital media assets

Founded in France in 2016, Scaleflex is a fast-growing international company with more than 70 passionate members from 16 nationalities in 15 locations across Europe, North Africa, and APAC. 

Scaleflex has helped develop scalable, effective, and secure APIs for industrial brands and online news and media businesses like Michelin, PSA Group, Q Digital, AfricaNews, and Nice Matin. 

Recognized by the MACH Alliance for its microservices-based, adaptable, technically agnostic, composable architecture, and easily interoperable products, Scaleflex delivers top-notch service for more than 1,300 customers worldwide. With its strong footprint in Europe, it is set to expand into other territories in 2023. 

Filerobot and Cloudimage Plugins for WordPress

Scaleflex’s Filerobot is the single source of truth for clients’ digital and media assets. The powerful Digital Asset Management plugin stores, enriches, normalizes, resizes, optimizes, and distributes images rocket fast around the world. 

Built by developers for developers, Filerobot’s multi-tenant architecture and fully API and headless capabilities allow companies to enhance collaboration and improve content workflows at scale. 

For example, regional daily French newspaper Nice Matin uses its technology on WordPress, integrating a modern media hub for journalists, saving them time as they search and retrieve volumes of digital assets seamlessly.

Cloudimage’s on-the-fly optimization solution helps large companies like Banque Populaire and Caisse D’Epargne apply image filters, custom transformations, and watermarks to optimize their images. The plugin implements lazy loading and responsive image technologies to deliver a best-in-class user experience on websites.

“Scaleflex is shaping the future of Digital Asset Management, hand in hand with the biggest and most in-demand CMS player, WordPress. Together, we trigger a powerful content stack for innovative brands looking to unleash the potential of their media assets. WordPress VIP is the right partner for Scaleflex to inspire top-notch brands who are on their way to revolutionizing the digital experience for their users.” 

— Emil Novakov, Scaleflex co-founder and CEO

Learn more about the partnership here. 

1Brand Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome 1Brand as a new agency partner! They have built a solid reputation over the past decade as a leading WordPress agency building customized solutions for clients.

Based in Austin, Texas with a team now 15+ strong, 1Brand’s primary passion and goal is solving clients’ business and technical challenges. 

1Brand has worked with prominent brands and public companies, including MazdaUSA, Deluxe, Domino’s, and Inspire Medica, helping businesses with WordPress-related features like custom plugins and API integrations, as well as many front-end UI/UX-related projects. Besides development, 1Brand provides ongoing support and maintenance services to their WordPress clients. 

“We’ve been developing WordPress solutions for the past ten years, so when we got the opportunity to become an Agency Partner for WordPress VIP, we were excited. Access to expert insights and resources will help us continue providing powerful WordPress solutions to our clients.”

— Tem Balanco, CEO of 1Brand

Learn more about the partnership here.

North Street Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome North Street as a new agency partner! They are an independently-owned strategy, design, and web development studio that services leading financial, corporate, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations. North Street has 12+ years of experience building on WordPress, delivering fully custom designs, including complex content migrations and third-party integrations.

Founded in 2010, North Street is an interdisciplinary team of visual designers, strategists, content creators, and engineers with offices in New York City and Providence, RI, and team members distributed across the country. 

North Street brings a branding, strategy, and content perspective to everything they do, whether it’s designing websites that easily scale or crafting all the requisite marketing touchpoints and high-profile materials an organization relies on (annual reports, investor decks, whitepapers, advertisements, conference materials). 

One example of this strategy-first process in action is the recent Boston Trust Walden rebrand and website redesign, a result of the merger of two distinct business practices: Boston Trust & Investment Management and Walden Asset Management. From the new tagline to the new logo, visual identity system, website, and print materials, North Street led the development of a uniquely new brand that successfully weaved the values and practices of the two legacy divisions into a cohesive organization positioned for future success. On the technical side, the new website required content migration and a complete cutover to a new domain from two different existing sites.

“We’ve always prided ourselves on our ability to build uniquely designed, custom, and scalable solutions for our clients on WordPress. Becoming an official WordPress VIP partner means we’re now more aligned with the mothership than ever before regarding technical resources and the platform’s future.”

— Tom Conlon, Founder + CEO

Learn more about the partnership here.

Sparklabs Agency Digital Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner!

We are proud to welcome Sparklabs Digital Agency as a new partner agency and our first agency from Mexico City!

Sparklabs is passionate about web and design, deeply committed to exploring new technologies and solutions based on process optimization. Their work philosophy, driven by creativity and innovation, allows Sparklabs to consider the development stages of clients’ business and match them with tools that will boost reach and presence in the market.

Sparklabs provides premium quality, security, and integrity in digital services to worldwide brands. They consider time a “principal asset,” helping people enjoy more of it through innovative technologies. To that end, they provide 24/7 support and solutions addressing quality, budget, and scalability requirements.

For almost a decade, Sparklabs has implemented engaging WordPress websites—resulting in more than 10 million cumulative views—while helping companies drive explosive business growth through the WordPress VIP platform. Companies needing a high-performance infrastructure, high-quality code standard, and specialized technical support will find a home with Sparklabs.

Sparklabs specializes in headless WordPress, WooCommerce integrations, digital marketing, custom apps, UX, optimization, process automation, and analytics.

 Brands like ADO, Audi, Club América, Estadio Azteca, Hospital General de México, Lyncott, Televisa, Wal-Mart, Scribe, UVM, Moendi, Generra, Nielson, Aguakan, and Oficina de la Defensoría de la Infancia AC trust their digital presence to Sparklabs. The agency was also the first company to incorporate digital memberships on the Club América website.

Learn more about Sparklabs here.

When Speed, Performance, and Uptime Count, WordPress VIP Is Again a Top Tier Choice

Built on a solid enterprise-grade foundation, WordPress VIP is the agile, content platform that helps content teams move both faster and smarter to drive more growth. 

Our rock solid, fully-managed platform is also super fast—validated by third-party testing, season after season. 

For the third year in a row, WordPress VIP has earned a coveted Top Tier award from WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks, a Review Signal Company.

Here’s the WordPress VIP 2022 performance skinny from author Kevin Ohashi:

• Fastest average and p95 response times on static testing.
• Perfect uptime on both monitoring services employed by Review Signal.
• Second fastest asset and login cumulative average scores on Load Storm.
• Second fastest average response time on WebPageTest.

“WordPress VIP continues to prove itself year after year as a Top Tier product. Congratulations.”

— Kevin Ohashi, Review Signal

How our WordPress hosting performance was measured

Explore the full 2022 results here. You’ll also learn more about the tools Review Signal uses to put platforms through their paces, including K6, WebPageTest, WPPerformanceTester, SSL, Internet.nl, and Mozilla Observatory. 

For example, WebPageTest fully loads the homepage and records how long it takes from 12 different locations around the world.

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Digital Silk Named a WordPress VIP Gold Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome creative digital agency Digital Silk as a new WordPress VIP agency partner! They are a global team of award-winning digital and design experts focused on growing brands online.  

A boutique agency, Digital Silk specializes in building and growing brands’ digital presence through strategic branding, custom website design, and results-driven digital marketing services. Their team’s expertise has been recognized by some of the biggest media in the industry, where they contribute columns and discuss all things digital, including Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Adweek.

From innovative startups in DNA testing, travel accessories, and tech to global household names in finance, auto, and food & beverage industries, Digital Silk has worked with companies of all sizes and across industries.

Clients particularly appreciate their proprietary, meticulous methodology that allows Digital Silk’s teams to quickly build domain expertise and drive projects forward with valuable insights and tailored recommendations. Clients look forward to discovering their target audience’s online behavioral patterns, competitors’ performance, and overarching industry trends as foundational elements of their digital presence. 

Besides generating data-based and actionable project insights, Digital Silk’s experts produce yearly reports on digital trends. Check out their 2022 Digital Trends whitepaper to explore the latest in:

• Brand messaging
• Web and ecommerce
• Digital and web design
• Content marketing
• Social media

WordPress is one of Digital Silk’s favorite CMSes. The agency has built a myriad of custom websites, advanced e-stores, and web apps on the platform.

“WordPress and WooCommerce are among our core specialties. We confidently recommend both to our clients who are looking for an admin-friendly CMS and a scalable, custom website. We look forward to advancing our partnership with WordPress and opening new possibilities with this amazing platform.”

— Gabriel Shaoolian, CEO at Digital Silk

Learn more about the partnership here.

Mutations Named a WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome Mutations as a new agency partner! They have extensive experience implementing headless CMS-driven sites. For the past two years, they have also been a technical partner for Parse.ly, the leading content analytics solution, which is now part of the WordPress VIP family!

Mutations is about one thing above all else: human connection. One former client called them “digital psychiatrists,” able to understand what clients and their users need before anyone else. Their human focus has led them to build a uniquely transparent environment where the entire team is empowered to contribute authentically and find balance in their work. As the name Mutations implies, they constantly evolve, adapt, and learn. Through this “mutant behavior,” they solve the most challenging technical problems, ensuring growth and success for their clients (as well as Mutations’ fully-remote team).

Some of Mutations’ clients and partners

Mutations has always been, first and foremost, an engineering shop. The team members have worked at Fortune 500 companies, large consultancies, Silicon Valley startups, scientific firms, state and local governments, and everything in between. This background allows Mutations to bridge the gap between the technical and the non-technical. They have taken their experience and concentrated on two primary areas: marketing engineering and specialized business enablement software. 

In an increasingly technological landscape, marketing departments, especially in product-focused organizations, typically lack in-house development resources. Every new CMS-driven site, campaign, landing page, or experiment requires software development and some degree of integration with external services. The Mutants (as they are affectionately known) are adept at migrating businesses to and developing headless CMS-driven sites that empower content teams, helping their sites scale to serve millions of visitors without complicated and expensive operational overhead. The WordPress VIP partnership is a testament to their success using WordPress as a backbone for headless website development. 

On the other side of the house, Mutations leverages decades of experience when creating specialized business enablement software. Many companies use an off-the-shelf application or a SaaS offering to run some segment of their operations. For some companies, though, these pre-existing systems are either too general or too specific, and the only answer is to build something new or customize off-the-shelf systems. Mutants learn the ins and outs of these businesses—surveying processes, issues, and opportunities. That knowledge transforms into custom software that powers the entire organization, growing and changing with the business. Mutations is particularly proud that the software they build allows clients to scale while keeping their operations streamlined, which provides a decisive competitive advantage.

Besides Parse.ly, other Mutations hallmark clients include Patreon, Imperfect Foods, Reforge, and a popular streaming provider.

“For years, we have been supporting the marketing engineering needs for Parse.ly, now part of WordPress VIP. So when we learned about the opportunity to officially partner with WordPress VIP, we jumped at the chance. By teaming up, we can improve the value that we bring to clients through our headless implementation of this amazing CMS platform.”

— Liana Ris, Managing Director, Agency Strategy & Services

Learn more about the partnership here. 

ppi Media named a WordPress VIP Technology Partner

We are proud to welcome ppi Media as a new Technology Partner! ppi Media joins our growing group of partners. They’re the developer of tohoop, a WordPress-to-print integration solution (“tohoop” is a Low German expression for “together”).

tohoop connects WordPress to Adobe InDesign, allowing WordPress VIP customers to effectively create print publications from online content and vice versa without any copy and paste. 

In addition, the tohoop planner makes it easy to plan and structure print publications right in the browser. This lets WordPress VIP customers adopt print as a professional publishing channel for their content.

ppi Media is a northern German-based organization with offices in Hamburg, Kiel, andChicago. ppi Media’s primary goal is to provide solutions that automate, digitize, and simplify publishing workflows and processes for customers. One of the company’s most important cornerstones is to build deep relationships with its customers based on partnership, working collaboratively to develop innovative, forward-looking publishing solutions. 

Those solutions include software for planning and producing daily newspapers and magazines and automating ad workflows for digital and print. For years, ppi Media has helped ensure smooth print production for a range of international publications, including the Bangkok Post, Dainik Jagran (one of the most widely read dailies in the world), and the best-known German newspapers.

“We are happy to announce that our tohoop solution is now part of the WordPress VIP partner program. WordPress VIP customers not only get a first-class digital publishing platform, but also a fully integrated professional print channel on demand. This ensures 360-degree coverage of all major publishing channels.”

— Dr. Hauke Berndt, CEO of ppi Media

Learn more about the partnership here.