Built for global brands
that can’t afford failure
Enterprise content is more than marketing output. It’s intellectual property. That’s why the platform behind it needs to be built for real-world demand: election nights, product launches, breaking news. When the moment matters, the platform has to hold.
Trusted by over 1,300 enterprises
WordPress VIP is the enterprise content platform built for organizations that need high availability, compliance-grade security, and AI-ready infrastructure without lock-in. Managed hosting, governed workflows, multi-brand publishing, and open APIs from REST to GraphQL. Operated by Automattic, built for global scale.
You don’t need to move faster.
You need to be unblocked faster.
The bottleneck isn’t content creators. It’s the approval cycles, platform limits, and governance gaps that route work through engineering. VIP removes those constraints, with guardrails in place so you can move confidently without asking permission first.
Build and publish without the queue
Content teams shouldn’t need to file a ticket to update your home page. Reusable block templates and governed structures make consistency the default. Your team controls the content layer, full stop.
Governance that doesn’t slow you down
Distributed teams go off brand the moment you give publishing access. Set role-based permissions, lock down brand controls, and build structured approval workflows. Your brand stays consistent, and your teams move fast — within the lines.
Content analytics that aren’t a separate contract
Most teams context-switch between their CMS and analytics tool. That’s two contracts, two logins, and a gap between insight and action. Content analytics by Parse.ly are embedded inside the platform. Your team gets live data where the work happens, and knows what to do next.
The enterprise brands with the outcomes to show for it
Capgemini
Immediately boosted productivity after migrating from Drupal. Now teams deliver smooth user experiences across languages, cultures, and markets.
“VIP enables us to deliver faster, smarter content experiences while maintaining the scale and reliability our business requires.”
Digital Experience Lead
Capgemini
Ford Foundation
Improved publishing workflows and built more collaborative, creative processes to support their communications and improve accessibility.
“We chose WordPress VIP because of its ease of use, general familiarity, and the number of agencies available due to its adoption rate.”
Bedirhan Cinar
Head of Product and Digital Engagement, Ford Foundation
Salesforce
Increased signups and deepened engagement with their content, while speeding up the team’s time to publish.
“We recently relaunched our blog and email newsletter. We’re seeing time spent get deeper and deeper. We’re seeing people subscribe to our email newsletter on a nice up-ramping slope.”
Hayley Nelson
VP Content Marketing, Salesforce
Meta
Launched a WooCommerce campaign in under a month compliant with Facebook’s enterprise security standards.
30
days to spin up a secure commerce campaign
Mecum Auctions
Now publishes new content in minutes, not days, while improving site speed and performance.
120M+
pageviews a year
Founded on open source.
Operated on enterprise security standards.
On proprietary digital experience platforms, you pay for lock-in they call security. On VIP, open source is your competitive advantage. Built on the most widely adopted CMS in the world, VIP adds the enterprise security layer your organization needs.
Compliance you inherit,
not build
SOC 2 audits, FedRAMP requirements, and authentication controls aren’t things you want to configure from scratch. The compliance posture is already there. You run on it.
SOC 2 Type I certified, with enterprise authentication, content governance controls, and a dedicated security team with deep WordPress expertise — operating at scale since 2006.
Hosting Automattic owns and operates
When something breaks on outsourced hosting, you’re third in the escalation chain. Issues on VIP get resolved by the people who built and operate the platform. Directly.
We don’t outsource the systems we guarantee. When a security issue needs to be resolved, it is — by Automattic engineers.
An ecosystem built for enterprise requirements
Proprietary platforms come with a narrow roster of certified vendors and a short list of approved integrations. That’s a ceiling, not a feature.
Build on a platform with over 60,000 plugins and a globally credentialed developer program. Address almost every tech requirement without custom builds or proprietary connectors.
AI tools that operate inside your
governance structure, not around it
The fear with AI isn’t that it won’t work. It’s that the output won’t be on brand or compliant enough to trust. On VIP, the controls that govern your editors govern your AI workflows too. And with 43% of the web on WordPress, your content is already structured the way generative models read the web.
Content intelligence
built for editors
Your editors have no signal on what’s actually performing until the analytics report lands next week. By then, the moment has passed.
Surface recommendations, improve editorial output, and connect related articles without waiting on a data team. AI-assisted content intelligence runs inside your existing governance structure. No separate licensing.
No new tool to learn.
APIs built for what AI needs next
Enterprise AI strategies are moving faster than most platforms can keep up with. If your CMS can’t support agent workflows, it’s already behind.
Build intelligent content workflows on a secure, open architecture. Connect your stack through REST and GraphQL, with support for emerging agent protocols. The architecture is open because your AI strategy needs it to be.
Control who accesses your content
You’ve spent years building a content library. You shouldn’t have to find out after the fact that it’s been used to train a model.
Decide exactly which AI crawlers can access what you publish. Control LLM crawler access through the VIP management console. Your governance policy extends to how AI systems interact with your content.
Is your content infrastructure ready for AI-driven discovery?
Learn how enterprise organizations are structuring content for AI
retrieval, agent workflows, and generative engine optimization.
When you’re publishing across brands,
regions, and teams, the platform has to hold
Launching a new brand or entering a new market doesn’t mean rebuilding your architecture from scratch.
Automatic content updates in real time
No one should have to manually update content across dozens of pages when a data source changes.
Keep your content accurate and relevant through remote data blocks. Pull live data from external sources without manual intervention or custom integrations.
Headless, hybrid, or single stack? You choose.
Most platforms force you to commit to one architecture model, then make it painful to change direction.
Pick the model that fits your stack with native support for headless, hybrid, and traditional deployments. Your team decides. The platform adapts.
Developer tools beyond maintenance mode
Your developers shouldn’t be spending cycles on performance tuning, authentication configs, and governance wiring.
Built-in performance optimization, governance tooling, and enterprise authentication are handled at the platform level. Choose from a globally credentialed developer network instead of a narrow roster of certified vendors.
Proven under real conditions
10
x
faster performance on managed VIP vs. standard WordPress hosting
20–50
%
faster time to first byte compared to major competitors
99.99
%
uptime SLA with 24/7 global
priority support
30 days
for Meta to launch their
commerce campaign
Recognized as a Gartner®
Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice 2025
WordPress VIP is rated 4.9/5 across 44 verified enterprise reviews in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer™ for Web Content Management — with 95% of customers willing to recommend. Customer-verified ratings, not vendor-submitted claims.
Already running WordPress?
Here’s what changes when you move to VIP.
WordPress VIP is where you go when your content operation demands more than standard
hosting can handle.
Direct access to
WordPress engineers
Scripted troubleshooting doesn’t cut it when something breaks. Get support from the
people who built and operate the platform,
not a tiered support queue.
Direct access to WordPress core contributors. Issues resolved by the same engineers who maintain the platform.
Bandwidth that scales
without surcharges
You shouldn’t find out your hosting can’t
handle a traffic spike by watching your site
go down.
No overage fees. No resource caps. No surprises after a high-traffic event. Capacity scales with your traffic.
Infrastructure Automattic
owns and operates
When something breaks on third-party hosting, the fix depends on an escalation chain you don’t control.
VIP runs on its own cloud and resolves
Issues internally, without routing through
other providers. No outsourcing. No
escalation chains.
Frequently asked questions
How is WordPress VIP different from WordPress or WordPress.org?
WordPress.org is the open-source software, free to download and self-host. WordPress.com is a consumer hosting platform built for individuals and small businesses. WordPress VIP is the enterprise tier: fully managed hosting, dedicated security, 99.99% uptime SLAs, SOC 2 Type I compliance, and direct access to WordPress engineers. It’s the same open-source core, built for content operations where reliability, governance, and performance are non-negotiable.
What does an enterprise CMS migration to WordPress VIP look like?
Scope depends on your current platform and content volume, but VIP’s onboarding team has run these migrations countless times before. The process starts with scoping your requirements before you commit to anything. Our agency partner network specializes in enterprise content strategy, technical migration, and front-end development.
Learn more in the migration guide, or contact us to talk through your setup.
How does WordPress VIP handle governance across distributed teams?
Governance is built into the platform, not layered on afterward. Role-based permissions control what each team member can create, edit, approve, and publish. Brand controls and locked templates mean consistency is the default, not something you have to enforce manually. Structured approval workflows keep distributed teams aligned without routing everything through a central review queue. Your teams move faster, within the lines, without asking for permission at every step.
Is WordPress VIP FedRAMP authorized?
Yes. WordPress VIP is the only WordPress platform with FedRAMP Moderate ATO. It also holds SOC 2 Type I, TX-RAMP, GovRAMP, and WCAG compliance, all maintained by VIP. For public sector organizations and regulated enterprises, you inherit that compliance posture rather than build it from scratch.
What analyst recognition has WordPress VIP received?
WordPress VIP is recognized in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer™ for Web Content Management — rated 4.9/5 across 44 verified enterprise reviews, with 95% of customers willing to recommend. WordPress VIP is also recognized in the Forrester Wave™ CMS Report. These are customer-verified ratings, not vendor-submitted claims.
Does WordPress VIP lock us into a single vendor or architecture?
No. WordPress VIP is built on open-source WordPress, the same software that powers 43% of the web. You’re not locked into proprietary APIs, a single deployment model, or a vendor-controlled ecosystem. VIP supports headless, hybrid, and traditional architectures. Your team chooses the model. Open REST and GraphQL APIs connect content with your existing stack. And with 60,000+ plugins and a globally credentialed developer community, you’re not dependent on a narrow list of certified vendors to extend the platform.
How does WordPress VIP support content teams that don’t have developer resources?
The platform is designed so your content team doesn’t need developer involvement for routine publishing. The block editor is intuitive enough that most teams are publishing independently within days. Reusable templates, governed workflows, and structured approval processes mean your team controls what they should, without the risk of going off brand or off process.
Working with an agency or planning a migration?
Service and technology partners in the VIP network are among the most active contributors to the WordPress open-source project. They specialize in enterprise content strategy, UX, design, and front-end and back-end development.
See how WordPress VIP performs
against your requirements
A personalized walkthrough covers your setup, security needs, AI options, and migration path.
Based on where you are, not a generic demo script.