Category Archives: WP Engine

WordPress Drama Unfolding Live – Matt calls out Lee Wittlinger, the Managing Director of Silver Lake for a public debate

07.10.2024Automattic, Five for the Future, Matt Mullenweg, WordCamp US 2024, WordPress community, WordPress News, WP EngineTeam WPLift

WordPress Drama What we know so far about Matt Mullenweg’s issues with WP Engine, the WordPress hosting provider’s response, and our personal take on the whole messy situation. On Friday evening, September 20, WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg took to the stage for a hotly anticipated Q&A session at WordCamp US, the biggest WordPress community [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WP Engine Acquires 5 Delicious Brains Plugins

03.06.2022WordPress News, WP EngineTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends! We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. WP Engine acquired five plugins from WordPress product company Delicious Brains this week. This includes Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, WP Offload SES, and Better Search Replace. Beyond that, Gutenberg 13.3 was released with support for an [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Weglot Raises $50 Million in Funding

25.03.2022Weglot, WordPress News, WP EngineTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends! We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, popular WordPress multilingual plugin Weglot has raised $50 million (€45 million) from Partech Partners. According to the company, the investment will be used to scale market expansion and product development. Beyond that, WP Engine has ceased all business [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress 5.7 Is Out

12.03.20212021, WordPress 5.7, WP EngineTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We hope you’re still enjoying our new design. If you’ve hit any issues this past week, please give us a shout in the comments. This week, WordPress 5.7 was officially released. It’s a major release, so there’s no pressure to update right away. But give it a try and update when you [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WP Engine Acquires Flywheel

28.06.20192019, Flywheel, WP EngineTeam WPLift

In one of the biggest WordPress acquisitions ever, WP Engine announced that they’ve acquired Flywheel, another popular managed WordPress host. The numbers aren’t public, but this helps WP Engine move towards a $1 Billion valuation, as it prepares for an IPO in the somewhat-near future. Flywheel’s recurring annual revenue was $18 million at the time of ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: WP Engine Acquires Flywheel

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Weekly WordPress News: WP Engine Users Get StudioPress Themes For Free

07.09.2018genesis, Gutenberg, SiteGround, WordPress News, WP EngineColin Newcomer

If you’re not hosting at WP Engine, you might feel a little jealous as all WP Engine customers now get access to Genesis and 35 StudioPress themes for free as part of their plan. Beyond that, we’ve also got plenty of Gutenberg news, some great tutorials, and SiteGround is running a big labor day sale where ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: WP Engine Users Get StudioPress Themes For Free

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Weekly WordPress News: WP Engine Acquires StudioPress

29.06.2018StudioPress, WordPress News, WP Engine, YoastTeam WPLift

Big business news this week as WP Engine announced that they acquired Genesis Framework-maker, StudioPress. WP Engine plans to invest heavily in future development, as well as make StudioPress part of the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. Also, the Yoast SEO snippet editor got a redesign, and Pixelgrade published another one of their great transparency ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: WP Engine Acquires StudioPress

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