“Using VIP means that I don’t have to bring in an operations team. My developers don’t have to worry about ‘is the site up or down’, but can focus on creating. VIP does code review, which reassures me that we’re not going to be putting code in that’s going to cause scalability or security problems. Having that second layer of control is a real positive. Frankly, I’d rather have my team focused on being creative and innovative than spending time worrying about architecture.”
“By moving to WordPress.com VIP, we were able to not worry about downtime and whenever we push our code up for deployment they run an additional code check to make sure we’re not pushing anything up to production that could potentially be catastrophic. Things like security we no longer have to think about. So this allows our team to focus on building awesome stuff.”
"This was one of our smoothest and most successful launches to date. Everyone who reviewed the site – both before and after launch – commented on the exceptional quality. This was down to an incredible effort led by you all, with a focus and dedication that was a joy to be involved in."
“My instructions to them were that they had to keep the logo because we weren’t going to redesign the logo, and the color red because that was the Post color, but everything else was negotiable.”
“We have enormously improved our efficiency since we don't need additional teams or third parties to support code review or infrastructure. And because we need almost no back end development resources in-house, it’s almost all front end, today we have a smaller development team. We can focus on what matters, which is producing content and generating value. We don’t have to care about servers and backups for example, all of that is covered with VIP.”
“In the past, the staff didn’t touch the CMS. They wrote things in Word, sent it to the production team, and they put it online. With WordPress, that workflow is changing slowly and dramatically. We’ve trained many of our content creators in the CMS. And, the closer the content creators are to it, the more creatively they are able to think about it.”
“Certainly from my perspective, WordPress has been a great success — with WordPress VIP giving us that enterprise-level of assured quality on top.”