Likelihood to Recommend It is well suited for heavy-duty A/B testing where management would like to see and quantitatively determine the effect of a change. It is not so efficient to try for a single page simple form, except when the form is part of a larger workflow. The security model is not very well understood, including RBAC and protection against injection attacks.
Read full review WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
Read full review Pros Provides quicker release cycle for the way the product cards should be displayed. Provides feedback for new product introduction and how it'll be perceived. Allows rapid blackout from user experience changes that alters traffic flow. Read full review Security - class leading security, ensuring sites are protected and operate hassle free Scalability - provide patches and updates first before the market place Reliability - up to 99.9% up time, with a fantastic track record Performance - hitting the high notes for Core Web Vitals and ensuring WordPress is operating at its peak performance Read full review Cons Can use better interface for managing test, including scheduling and notification. Feels too heavy for simple projects, though this isn't a factor once past the PoC stage. Notification on various aspects can be made more powerful and granular if such a need arise. Read full review Too many different dashboard formats Everything should have the same look and feel. The admin portal looks different than the user content portal Read full review Likelihood to Renew It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies
Read full review Usability There is documentation for everything you might need.
Read full review Support Rating The people who work for WordPress VIP clearly are passionate about representing the organisation. Therefore when support is required, they do go above and beyond what you may expect in terms of overall support. They take security very seriously, and due to the nature of VIP, it's rarely a concern for the end-user, if at all.
Read full review Alternatives Considered There is a big difference between the two:
Google Optimize uses Bayesian analysis while Optimizely uses Frequenting. There is a risk of counting multiple visits.
Google Optimize data isn't available instantly (if I remember correctly). Optimizely's analyses dashboard is a lot richer and offers a better experience, though it may get intimidating.
Read full review Our team manages 4 different brands' websites and before WordPress VIP we were using multiple different hosts including
DreamHost and AWS. These were convoluted and didn't offer the enterprise features for our organization that WP VIP was capable of. We also considered
Pantheon , but they were not Wordpress-centric enough for the direction we were going.
Read full review Return on Investment Almost immediate payoff in terms of the benefit. Easy to justify the TTM benefits to upper management. Still somewhat hard to justify ROI, though this is not my expertise. Read full review Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business. Read full review ScreenShots Optimizely One Screenshots