WP Engine is the #1 platform for WordPress
WP Engine empowers companies and agencies of all sizes to create, manage, and optimize their WordPress websites with confidence. We provide premium, enterprise-grade solutions, tools, and services, including specialized offerings of Managed WordPress, Headless WordPress, industry-tailored solution suites, and developer-centric tools. Our innovative technology and expert guidance from leading WordPress professionals have served more than 1.5 million users and customers across 150+ countries.
To learn more about why more of the top 200,000 sites in the world use WP Engine to drive their digital experiences than anyone else in WordPress, read more here.
Our history
WP Engine was founded in 2010 in Austin, TX, to bring the ease-of-use and open-source freedom of WordPress to the masses through a managed platform offering speed, scalability, security, and support. Our goal was to empower content creators and developers alike to focus on what they love, without the hassle of site crashes, slow page-load speeds, and complex security issues.
Starting with 30 initial customers and a single product, we’ve grown to a team of over 1,000 globally distributed WordPress experts and a catalog of industry-standard tools. Today, roughly 9% of people online visit a site powered by WP Engine—a testament to the durability of both WordPress and its #1 managed provider.
Pictured: Founder Jason Cohen shows his team their future WP Engine HQ in Austin, TX in 2013, saying, “It’s a disaster, but it’s ours.”
And we’re only getting started. Over the years, WP Engine has been dedicated to enhancing its services to better meet the needs of WordPress users. One significant step in this journey was the acquisition of Flywheel in 2019, aimed at empowering designers and freelancers with next-generation managed WordPress solutions. Together with Local, the #1 local development software, WP Migrate, and Advanced Custom Fields, our expanding product catalog represents our commitment to supporting the WordPress community, ensuring essential resources are readily available for users to build, power, manage and optimize their sites.
Our core values
Our values are like a flame. They light the way for our actions and must always be fostered. Our people are enabled and empowered to tend this flame by making values-based decisions and innovating on your behalf, so that you can build winning digital experiences. We are humbled and inspired by the role we get to play in your business.
Do the right thing
When it’s right for the customer and the company, and you’re proud of your decision, you’ve done the right thing.
Customer inspired
We are grateful for our role in our customers’ lives; when they win, we win.
Design matters
We are proud of our work when it is intentionally designed and thoughtfully crafted.
Committed to give back
We believe that great leaders give back and inspire others to do the same.
Built for growth
When we win, we celebrate our success and stay hungry. When we fail, we embrace opportunities to improve and learn.
Our people fuel the engine
We’re a diverse and inclusive set of people brought together by our shared purpose and values.
Our teams are award-winning
We’re relentlessly passionate about your success, and our teams have the accolades to prove it.
We power growth for everyone
As an employer, WP Engine is a place where everyone can grow—no matter what you look like, who you love, where you come from, or what you believe. We engage the most inspired minds to do the best work of their careers, and we believe you should be the same person at work as you are at home.
We are Committed to Give Back
WP Engine has always had a strong approach to giving back to our community, giving back to our employees, and giving back to our industry. This commitment is woven throughout our core values from Do the right thing to Committed to giving back.
Engine for Good, our corporate social responsibility program, encompassing our initiatives in Open Hearts, Open Doors and Open Future, aligns our efforts to upload these core values while helping our community in every aspect.
