WordPress VIP is a decent product
- We use VIP to host certain content that is super performant and handles our social marketing use cases.
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What is WordPress VIP?
Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.
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What is WordPress VIP?
Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is WordPress VIP?
WordPress VIP is a content platform for the enterprise. Built on WordPress, powers over 40% of the web, WordPress VIP aims to give content marketers the ability to create more content, faster while ensuring the security and reliability they need to operate at enterprise scale.
Some key capabilities of WordPress VIP include:
Some key capabilities of WordPress VIP include:
- Content creation: Customize pages in using modular product blocks with Gutenberg, a drag-and-drop editor.
- Presentation: Thousands of pre-built themes to build any site. Developers can customize their own to meet any special requirement.
- Open ecosystem: Plugins add capabilities and integrate with other pieces of the marketing technology stack, to work without vendor lock-in.
- Headless CMS: Decoupled architecture delivers the flexibility to build a front-end and power experiences using REST and GraphQL APIs.
- Integrated Commerce: Out-of-the-box commerce capabilities enable content to drive purchase through one unified solution.
- Integrated Content Analytics: Real-time measurement on content performance across channels enables rapid optimization.
- Security: Multi-faceted protection including code scans, granular permissions, private networking, DDoS mitigation, penetration testing, rapid issue patching and audit logs provide protection for even the most sensitive digital properties. That's why the vendor states WordPress VIP is the only WordPress platform to earn FedRAMP “authorized” status.
- Performance: Integrated containerization, content delivery networks (CDN), asset optimization, enterprise search and application performance monitoring (APM) combine to drive optimal performance at scale. Boasts many of the world's biggest digital brands as users of WordPress VIP.
- Support: An expert team, including many of the people behind the core WodPress project. WordPress VIP goes beyond just supporting the core CMS to offer support for customers' developers, resolving issues related to themes, plugins, and custom code.
WordPress VIP Features
Web Content Creation Features
- Supported: WYSIWYG editor
- Supported: Code quality / cleanliness
- Supported: Content versioning
- Supported: Admin section
- Supported: Page templates
- Supported: Library of website themes
- Supported: Mobile optimization / responsive design
- Supported: Publishing workflow
- Supported: Form generator
- Supported: Content scheduling
Web Content Management Features
- Supported: Internal content search
- Supported: Content taxonomy
- Supported: SEO support
- Supported: Browser compatibility
- Supported: Bulk management
- Supported: Page caching
- Supported: Availability / breadth of extensions
- Supported: Built-in e-commerce / shopping cart
- Supported: E-commerce / shopping cart extension
- Supported: Community / comment management
- Supported: Import / export
- Supported: Website analytics
Platform & Infrastructure Features
- Supported: API
- Supported: Internationalization / multi-language
Security Features
- Supported: Role-based user permissions
- Supported: Multi-factor authentication
- Supported: User-level audit trail
- Supported: Version history
- Supported: Simple roll-back capabilities
CMS programming language or framework Features
- Supported: PHP
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WordPress VIP Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | 207 languages. For a full list please see: https://translate.wordpress.org/ |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.
Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore Experience Manager, and Acquia Digital Experience Platform are common alternatives for WordPress VIP.
Reviewers rate WordPress VIP Performance highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of WordPress VIP are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
WordPress VIP Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 10% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 90% |
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Elementary Digital is a dedicated WordPress agency operating in the EMEA region. We work with clients looking to create and manage Enterprise-level WordPress websites. The concerns often with WordPress are centered around security, scalability, and performance, which for those who work in WordPress (and the organizations that use it) are not issues. However, one of the key considerations for these concerns is hosting and this is where WordPress VIP steps in. Effectively it's hosting from the organization (Automattic) that develops WordPress and its hosting is closely aligned to the development roadmap of WordPress itself. This, of course, provides great peace of mind for organizations, working directly with the CMS owners and being first in line to ensure security is paramount allowing for scale, reliability, and most important performance.
- 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
- Smaller packages - which typically only operate in the Enterprise space, could offer more cost-effective solutions for smaller organizations
- Enterprise - providing a true enterprise hosting solution for organizations that ticks all the boxes (especially for IT Directors)
- WordPress best practice - learning and aligning development methodologies to VIP's best practice
- Updates - first to receive updates about WordPress ensuring we keep our clients updated
- Belief and confidence - in the VIP hosting framework ensure our clients are getting the best service
In the competition noted WordPress VIP is the only true enterprise dedicated to WordPress hosting. Their hosting framework is 100% geared up for providing enterprise organizations with the infrastructure needed.
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The business functions that predominately use WordPress VIP are DevOps and our engineers. Although the account management and project management teams work with and consult on the use of WordPress VIP. From a performance point of view the digital marketing team benchmark website speed against Core Web Vitals and reference the speed of WordPress VIP against other hosts.
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We have a dedicated team of WordPress engineers (developers) who will support the framework from a front and back end point of view. The DevOps team will support WordPress VIP from an infrastructure point of view. The skills required are familiarity with WordPress and hosting infrastructure. VIP uses a high quality code approach so our in-house Q&A team are conscious of best practice in code as well.
- Speed - ensuring WordPress websites achieve or better core web vitals
- Security - delivering the highest, enterprise grade security for WordPress website
- Scalability - providing a framework from which multiple iterations of WordPress can be scaled
- Intranet - using it to power organisation intranets
- Multi -site - stemming multiple instances of websites off a single instance
- News room - integrating with third party newsroom systems
- Ecommerce - more effective hosting of Woocommerce
- Headless - hosting headless websites
- Third party connectivity - build off headless push content to multiple channels
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Existing legacy on-premise hosting infrastructure. Had to replace it as the solution was not suitable for a business to scale and for security. WordPress VIP provided a cloud based framework that allowed for greater flex when growing the business.
- Cloud Solutions
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
WordPress VIP is the pinnacle of WordPress hosting. It's built by WordPress for WordPress. The cloud first approach allows for infinite scalability and out of the box coding methodologies ensure a WordPress website is fit for purpose when launched.
No, it was about finding the best WordPress hosting solutions available. Our criteria covered are they enterprise, can they handle volume and scale with us.
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Fastest and most secure WordPress platform
We recommend using WordPress VIP for enterprise clients. The stability and security offered by WordPress VIP is second to none.
- Security
- Uptime
- Speed
- VIP Dashboard
- CLI commands
- Documentation
- WordPress VIP is more expensive than other platforms
- We spend less time maintaining client websites because the platform is very stable
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Our developers use WordPress VIP every day.
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The same developers who use the platform, also support WordPress VIP.
- GitHub Workflow and deployment for security
- Client retention
- Nothing comes to mind
- We recommend WordPress VIP to all our clients
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We use WordPress VIP for enterprise clients. Previously we opted to use WPEngine.
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I wouldn't change it.
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We have not, because we have developers in house.
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Yes, when a client site went down because of a developer-related issue, WordPress VIP support was faster than us to notice the issue and make sure the site was up.
- VIP Dashboard
- GitHub integration
- Minor fixes require GitHub pull workflow.
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The VIP Dashboard works great.