AUSTIN, TX — Feb. 1, 2024-WP Engine today announced the winners of its inaugural Agency Partner Awards, which honor the most innovative and best WordPress websites designed and built by members of the company’s global Agency Partner Program. With eight categories recognizing excellence in creativity and philanthropy to e-commerce and technical performance, the awards attracted almost 200 entries from 90 agency partners around the world.
Company Partner Award winners will gain exposure to WP Engine’s large global audience, including promotion on the wpengine.com homepage to millions of visitors, promotion in the customer newsletter with over 130,000 subscribers, participation in the Webby Awards and advertising during the company’s annual flagship event DE{CODE} with 10,000+ viewers.
“WP Engine is passionately committed to open source WordPress and partners with agency digital innovators to leverage its freedom and flexibility to create, power and optimize great experiences for our clients,” said Jason Teichman, Chief Operating Officer , WP Engine.
“We’re honored to work with so many companies at the forefront of web design and development, creating what’s next in digital and envisioning the future for us all. We are proud to celebrate our inaugural Partner Award winners for their outstanding WordPress sites.”
2024 WP Engine Agency Partner Awards Winners
Creative work of the year 2024:
Yosemite Mariposa County Tourism Office (YMCTB) from Noble Studios
WP Engine believes that good design is good business and takes pride in its work when it is purposefully designed and thoughtfully designed. Noble Studios won Creative Project of the Year for the immersive and interactive design of the Yosemite Mariposa County Tourism Office website.
The site deftly embodies the spirit of Yosemite, offering personalized suggestions through an inspiring map and extensive publishing tools to create detailed travel itineraries. This approach not only transports visitors to the park’s landscapes, but also encourages exploration and design beyond, anchoring them in the area’s pioneering atmosphere.
2024 Committed to Giving Back Award: Double Up Food Bucks Michigan with Loop: Design for Social Good
In line with its partners, WP Engine believes giving back creates better business. Many Affiliate Program members focus on leveraging WordPress to create attractive nonprofit websites. This approach benefits customers by avoiding proprietary CMS license fees and offering extensive integration options.
Loop: Design For Social Good won the Giving Back Award for creating a website that connects Michigan farmers with those in need, improving access to fresh produce. Their Double Up Food Bucks Michigan project addresses food insecurity by matching fruit and vegetable purchases for SNAP recipients, providing access to nutritious food and supporting local farmers and markets, making it a win-win for everyone involved!
E-Commerce Project of the Year 2024:
Burren Smokehouse with Digital granite
WooCommerce, a powerful e-commerce plugin in the WordPress ecosystem, is the foundation for over 20% of the top 1 million e-commerce websites. Granite Digital secured the e-commerce award by increasing engagement and expanding reach, helping its clients convert traffic into valued customers.
Granite Digital brought a new e-commerce experience to Burren Smokehouse by modernizing the digital presence by bringing WP Engine’s scalable, secure and high-performance WordPress solutions to drive traffic and transaction requirements, ensuring a seamless website experience. The results speak for themselves—after launch, the site showed a 40.56% drop in bounce rate, a 94.15% increase in page sessions, and a 174.01% increase in average session duration, signaling a significantly more engaging site .
2024 Headless Project of the Year:
Board with Art & Science
According In WP Engine’s 2023 CMS Trends Report, eight in ten (81%) IT and marketing leaders believe that organizations that fail to adopt a component-based approach with their websites risk falling behind their competitors – highlighting the value of headless adoption.
Digital marketing firm Art & Science brought a modern architecture focused on security, speed and seamless multi-channel capabilities to a visionary financial services company using Atlas WP Engine’s headless WordPress platform.
Embark enables students’ academic aspirations through Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) and post-secondary learning. Art & Science developed a digital presence that was not only robust and secure, but also flexible and user-friendly across multiple platforms, including its website, online customer portal and an anticipated mobile app. A headless WordPress stack provided seamless content integration across properties, along with unparalleled performance.
In addition to the above category winners, WP Engine awarded top agency partners in three geographies, including Americaneagle.com in North America, Filter Agency in EMEA, The Code Company in APAC, and 2024 newcomer ADEKA Studio LLC .
WP Engine Affiliate Program is the largest WordPress agency ecosystem with over 10,000 agency members. Using WP Engine’s platform and suite of products, companies are empowered to create custom, innovative and scalable digital solutions for clients that push the boundaries of what’s possible on the web.
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