AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WP Engine, the world’s most trusted WordPress technology company, today announced the launch of Premier, the enterprise WordPress platform that delivers industry-leading levels of security, performance and scalability for the world’s most popular and most visited sites.

Customers using WP Engine Premier no longer need to worry about whether their platform can handle sudden traffic spikes or compute intensive workloads. Premier is an enterprise platform, designed by the company that powers more of the top 200,000 websites in the world than…

Allowing social login on your WordPress website can be a great way to increase engagement and reduce bounce rate. In addition, with an easy login process for new users, you can make your website more trustable.

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WordPress.com has arrived on the Microsoft Store in the form of an official app released by Automattic, Inc.‬, the company behind WordPress (via WalkingCat). The app is, by all accounts, virtually identical to the traditional browser-based experience, so your mileage with its utility may vary. Here’s the app’s official description, as stated by Automattic.

“Give your big ideas a home on the web. Manage or create your WordPress blog or website right from your desktop.

• Pick the right look and feel from a wide selection of WordPress themes.
• Create updates, stories, photo essays…

WordPress finally added their Windows desktop app to the Microsoft Store app store this week. The app listing was first spotted by popular Microsoft leaker, WalkingCat, on Twitter and it appears to be the same app that can be downloaded an installed from the official WordPress website which is itself mostly just a copy of the WordPress web experience.

Here’s the app’s official description:

Give your big ideas a home on the web. Manage or create your WordPress blog or website right from your desktop.

• Pick the right look and feel from a wide selection of WordPress themes.
• Create…

When choosing a content managing system (CMS) to build a blog or website, you need to weigh the pros and cons to ensure you make the right pick for your needs. We’ll do just that with WordPress to help you see if it’s the right for your upcoming projects.

WordPress Pros

If you’re looking for reasons to give WordPress a try, here are plenty of them:

Instant Creation

Whether you want to make a new site go live quickly to capture an opportunity or you want to create new and current content for your site’s visitors, it can all be done with ease via WordPress.

Cheaper Than A…

What began as a project in August 2020 has now become a reality. All past Twenty* default WordPress themes now have their own unique block patterns. In recent weeks, Twenty Ten through Twenty Fifteen received updates.

Designer Mel Choyce-Dwan kick-started tickets for all previous 10 default themes before the WordPress 5.5 release, the first version to support patterns. Twenty Twenty, Twenty Nineteen, Twenty Seventeen, and Twenty Sixteen each made the cut for that update. However, the remaining default themes were left to languish, at least for a few months and WordPress…

For businesses small and large alike, WordPress has consistently ranked among the top Content Management Systems (CMS) tools on the market. It’s free, fast to set up, easy to manage, and there are a plethora of developers and extensions to help with all your website needs.

As sites age, however, the one downside we at The James Agency hear from our clients is that their WordPress site is performing slowly on the frontend of the site (consumer-facing) and/or the backend of the site (developer-facing). It’s no surprise that slow sites frustrate users and increase bounce rates….

If you want to speed up a WordPress website, WordPress speed optimization plugins ought to work for you.

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