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WordPress VIP for media and publishing

WordPress VIP for media and publishing

Publish faster. Scale instantly. Own your audience.

Built on the CMS that powers 41% of the web, with
analytics and security newsrooms actually need.

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Trusted by the world’s biggest newsrooms and publishers

When media companies need to publish fast, scale instantly, and own their audience, they turn to WordPress VIP. It pairs WordPress with built-in analytics, proven infrastructure, brand governance, and security that newsrooms trust. It also structures content AI can discover and cite, runs on an agentic architecture, and puts AI-powered guidance in the hands of editors. Your team gets subscriber intelligence and content testing from audience data you own, not borrowed metrics from platforms you don’t control.

100K

+

requests per second handled by TIME during Taylor Swift Person of the Year

22B

+

requests served during
the 2024 US election with
100% uptime

99.99

%

uptime during election nights, Super Bowl, and NASA landings

110

%

increase in paid subscriptions at Slate using Parse.ly data

SOC 2

Type I platform and Type II data centers, certified annually

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The reality

The first interaction with your content isn’t a reader anymore. It’s an AI.

Search traffic has moved to generated answers, and AI now sits between the story and your audience. Every publisher is answering the same question: Do you want AI to cite you, license your archive, or keep parts of it off limits? That’s for you to decide, not your CMS.

WordPress powers 41% of the web, so the models behind AI learned to read content in the shape our CMS produces. WordPress VIP gives you control and visibility over bots and crawlers, structuring and governing your content so it holds up as the AI landscape changes.

Content creation and editorial operations

A CMS your editorial team actually controls

The Gutenberg block editor puts editorial teams in control and structures every piece of content for AI, APIs, and everywhere you publish.

Real-time collaborative editing and publishing without developer involvement
Brand governance through pre-approved blocks and templates
Automatic semantic HTML, schema.org, and JSON-LD on every block
60,000+ plugins and the world’s largest WordPress agency ecosystem

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SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE

Your newsroom’s freedom shouldn’t come with a security trade-off

Get the freedom of Open Source with security for large-scale publishing. Build exactly what your editorial operation needs on a security layer VIP maintains.

No vendor lock-in: Open standards, full code transparency
FedRAMP Moderate ATO: The only authorized WordPress platform
SOC 2 Type I: Certified and audited annually
Vulnerability detection: Built-in WPScan to scan plug-ins and installs
Brand governance: The same block-level controls governing AI agents as your editorial team
LLM access controls: You decide which AI systems can reach your content

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Content intelligence by Parse.ly

Own your audience instead of renting it

Platform algorithms change without notice. Social referral disappears overnight. If your content strategy depends on metrics from channels you don’t control, every update resets the playbook. Parse.ly, our integrated content analytics designed for editorial teams, surfaces audience directly insights in the CMS. Ask questions in plain language. Get answers without an analyst queue.

Full conversion journey tracking: anonymous visitor to paid subscriber
Subscriber and registered reader segmentation
Scroll depth, return visits, engaged time, and composite loyalty scores
AI-powered headline testing
Content Intelligence panel inside the WordPress editor

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Infrastructure and performance

Built to handle breaking news, viral moments, and election nights with zero downtime

WordPress VIP handles the infrastructure so your team never has to. When traffic spikes, it scales. When attacks hit, they’re absorbed. Your editorial team keeps publishing. Your audience keeps engaging.

Global infrastructure across 28 data centers with our proprietary CDN
99.99% uptime SLA, zero DDoS downtime
Self-healing and auto-scaling infrastructure

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AI governance

Govern AI access the same
way you govern your team

AI agents, models, and workflows on WordPress VIP operate under the same role-based, block-level permissions as your editorial team, not a separate governance layer you have to build. Brand guidelines encoded once. Every model and workflow pulls from the same source of truth.

For AI systems outside the platform, you set the terms. Granular access controls let you decide which systems can reach your content, and at what level.

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How publishers are growing
on WordPress VIP

The biggest names in media use WordPress VIP to publish faster, scale reliably,
and turn audience data into revenue.

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The Times

Revamped workflows using WordPress VIP, improving efficiency by 34% and lowering CMS training from 2 days to 30 minutes.

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Feedback from the newsroom was great. We previously needed 2 days of training to get journalists up and running on our old solution. We now train them in half an hour.

Luke Sikkema

Head of Editorial Operations. The Times