NJI Named WordPress VIP Silver Agency Partner

We are proud to welcome NJI as a new agency partner! They are a full-service, global creative agency specializing in policy and public affairs. Rooted in Washington, D.C., with a global reach, NJI creates opportunities to inform and influence—always with localized, measurable impact. 

“After years of close collaboration with WordPress VIP’s engineering team on 50+ website builds for clients with rigorous performance and security requirements, we’re thrilled to announce our official partnership,” says NJI’s Global Vice President of Development Claudio Meira.

With over 16 years of experience, NJI has established a reputation for high-caliber work and a commitment to pushing boundaries. Their creative strategies bridge the gap between policy objectives and creative communication. 

NJI pairs audience-driven strategies with the best technology to produce secure, dynamic, and intuitive websites with an emphasis on performance and load-time optimization. They’ve designed, crafted, and built over 300 websites on WordPress. Their work on innovative websites across a myriad of industries has received global recognition from MUSE Awards, Web Excellence Awards, dotCommAwards, WebAwards, Indigo Design Awards, Summit International Awards, AVA Digital Awards, and others.

From a single code file to a server ecosystem, NJI’s in-house technical team abides by rigorous standards to enhance efficiencies, optimize performance, safeguard against security vulnerabilities, and exceed industry best practices. 

Their crew of technical experts, creative dreamers, and ambitious strategists collaborates to distill complexity. From virtual reality experiences to event activations featuring boundary-pushing creative, NJI specializes in bringing compelling stories and persuasive messages to target audiences. 

“This milestone reflects our commitment to excellence and innovation in the digital landscape, empowering us to elevate our service offerings for clients and provide unparalleled solutions that are secure, scalable, and sophisticated,” says Meira. “We’re eager to leverage our shared experiences to push the boundaries of web development.”

Learn more about the partnership here. 

Building a B2B membership product with WordPress

What do Dan Entin, Rex Reed, and Carrie Bradshaw have in common? They all share roots in Observer Media, where Dan has been the VP of Product for the last 2 years. Headquartered in New York City’s financial district, Observer Media operates multiple brands including Commercial Observer, the leading commercial real estate media property in the country, which reports on the key trends and leaders defining the global real estate landscape.

In an effort to diversify their revenue streams across print advertising, digital advertising, and events, the Commercial Observer decided to create a new product: member subscriptions. After extensive market research, Dan’s team decided on three membership tiers: Basic, Premium, and Premium+.

“We have quadrupled the number of basic members that we get each month.”

—Dan Entin, Observer Media’s VP of Product

To learn more about the user research that informed Commercial Observer’s membership approach, including details on how they actually built the paywall using WordPress VIP and our technology partner Piano, watch Dan’s full talk:

BigWP is our enterprise WordPress event series. It brings together developers, business leads, and product people who work with high-scale WordPress applications every day.

Find all of the talks in the BigWP NYC November 2019 playlist.

How Implementing WordPress Dark Mode Boosted 9to5’s sites

At BigWP, 10up president Jake Goldman demonstrated two ways to enable dark mode support

WordPress VIP Gold agency partner 10up recently worked with media company 9to5 to add WordPress dark mode and light mode support to its most popular sites, including 9to5Mac and 9to5Google. Jake Goldman, founder and president of 10up, took the stage at BigWP SF to discuss the project and provide a practical primer on supporting native, OS-level dark and light settings.

As of this year, all major operating systems and browsers have begun to support the ability to view different display modes (light and dark), based on user preference.

Beyond aesthetics, dark mode is a contributing factor in improving accessibility for users who suffer from eye strain or other vision difficulties. Enabling dark and light mode options also empowers users to personalize their experience with your content — which can improve engagement.

The good news? WordPress dark mode is relatively easy to enable. It took 10up only about 30 people hours to set up five sites on the 9to5 network that shared an overarching layout.

In this talk, Jake walks through two approaches to achieve similar results. First, a CSS path to deliver content in light or dark mode based on a user’s predefined settings. Next, a JavaScript method to allow users to toggle between light and dark mode on their own, which defaults to user device settings.

Why Capgemini Migrated 38 Sites From Drupal to WordPress

Read the full case study

Capgemini is a multi-billion dollar international consultancy focused on leader technology services and digital transformation. Capgemini’s global workforce comprises 200,000 team members in over 40 countries. Capgemini underwent a huge re-platforming project, migrating their network of 38 sites from their legacy Drupal CMS to WordPress VIP.

Drupal had become a choke point, causing unnecessary production delays

Capgemini’s legacy Drupal CMS was no longer improving workflows or supporting their editorial needs. To make matters worse, Drupal’s lack of backward compatibility made the website increasingly unstable. Finally, the system no longer supported their digital roadmap. To make matters worse, teams across Capgemini were becoming frustrated with the lack of usability and extensibility.  Understandably, teams created their own solutions outside the group platform. These workarounds created a governance nightmare.

Capgemini migrated 38 sites to WordPress—which immediately increased productivity

Capgemini had a clear requirement: their new platform would promote a decentralized approach to publishing and provide a workflow and communication framework to increase visibility into the production process. Migrating to WordPress quickly alleviated Capgemini’s content creation challenges.

“We needed a system and a piece of technology that would force a reckoning of our team members to actually learn what digital publishing is, and what digital marketing means today, in a bunch of different cultures, languages, and markets.”

Parker Ward, Director, Content Marketing and Communications

Now, Capgemini’s teams deliver seamless user experiences across languages, cultures, and markets

WordPress VIP helped Capgemini leap into a new digital culture of creation with a robust, usable, and intuitive CMS. Now, the CMS supports Capgemini in delivering their business objectives and empowers their global network of teams to do their jobs effectively.

To learn more about this work with Capgemini, including detailed results of their successful migration, download the executive summary here. You can also watch Parker Ward discuss the project during his talk at Big WP London.

This post is part of a series providing executive summaries of WordPress VIP case studies. For a complete list of these executive summaries, click here.