WordPress VIP

““He’s bringing in a force multiplier in a lot of these systems that he’s helping us stand up. Since we’ve deployed some of the systems that VIP has helped us with, we can see ChatGPT accessing these pages, and we know that they weren’t accessing them before.””

““To get our site LLM ready was probably gonna be a six-month project just on our own. Having this additional engineering support directly from WordPress VIP, we were able to plan it and execute it basically within two weeks, and we launched a fully featured product within a month.””

“Certainly from my perspective, WordPress has been a great success—with WordPress VIP giving us that enterprise-level of assured quality on top.”

“The security, the trust, the expertise, is what brought us to WordPress VIP.”

“Working with WordPress VIP made sure the site was secure and safe and always available.”

“Everything from understanding how your edge servers and your CDNs work to how your security teams work and your pen testing works—all of it gave me a sense of calmness to say, ‘Okay. We have a partner who can just go handle this.’”

“That’s why I love using WordPress. Broadly, the platform is just so easy to use… And it was really easy to train people on how to make simple edits.”

“The search is definitely one of the standout features of the new site. It’s a unique and detailed faceted search that exposes people to all our content, and the data center is directly integrated into both the CMS and search. Other data-heavy organizations like ours, still operate multiple websites with data and CMSes that are not integrated. I think we’re the first in our space to do that—with as much diverse content as we have all in one home.”

“In the past, the staff didn’t touch the CMS. They wrote things in Word, sent it to the production team, and they put it online. With WordPress, that workflow is changing dramatically. We’ve trained many of our content creators in the CMS. And, the closer the content creators are to it, the more creatively they are able to think about it.”

“We recently relaunched our blog on WordPress VIP, and also our email newsletter. With both, we’re seeing time spent get deeper and deeper. We’re seeing people subscribe to our email newsletter on a nice up-ramping slope.”

““There are so many ways to help enrich the website with one tool. We know we’ve barely scratched the surface.””

““If you see upticks in performance in certain areas, you know the insights that led to action ended up paying off.””

““That has been the biggest product-based change we’ve pulled from Parse.ly. And it’s created a great result in traffic and engagement.””

““These insights created the business case to sign up for the Parse.ly API. And because of that, we’ve been able to create a lot of great widgets based on the machine learning algorithms.””

“Overall, we’re happy with our decision to use WordPress VIP across our content and commerce use cases. We’ve been able to create a better commerce experience, customize for our unique needs, launch new sites, and empower our editors. I anticipate we will continue growing and launching additional sites on WordPress VIP.”

“Working with the block editor has been mostly fun. In every case where there was something we were looking to do we found a way to make it work.”

“The editorial connection is very nice. When we write an article about poetry books it becomes easy to feature a poetry book.”

“The experience was a bit disjointed. You could add things to your cart on Shop Catalog but then you’d have to leave the site to finish the order on Shopify.”

“Overall, we’re happy with our decision to use WordPress VIP across our content and commerce use cases. We’ve been able to create a better commerce experience, customize for our unique needs, launch new sites, and empower our editors.”

““WordPress VIP allows my team to get much more creative—and because we are now part of the larger WordPress community, we can meaningfully contribute to it through things like our accessibility plugin,” said Cinar. “That’s the benefit of WordPress: the ability to positively impact the internet as a whole.””

““Let’s say only 1% of WordPress sites use this plugin,” said Cinar. “Now 400,000 sites have transcripts that didn’t have them a week ago. The point is to give it away. And if someone comes up with a better one, that’s great, because my goal is to improve everyone’s experience.””

““We don’t want to just improve our site—we want to improve accessibility across the web,” said Cinar. “One of the great things about working at the Ford Foundation is that I can ask, ‘What is the most good I can do at this moment?’””

““We wanted to improve this,” said Cinar. “We decided to create two versions of every video, one audio-described and one without audio descriptions. For the audio-described version, we have a human read the descriptions and then edit those audio descriptions to seamlessly integrate into the video. Both video versions are then made available on our YouTube channel.””

““In a short time, we went from one person who could fix most issues on our website to nine,” said Cinar. “After a few hours of training, everyone was proficient.””

““With 2015 WordPress, if you can write an email, you can write a blog post,” said Cinar. “But if you want it to look different, you might have to call your developer. With today’s WordPress, you typically don’t.””