WordPress powers over 43% of the web, including many of the world's largest enterprises. Find out how WordPress can help your organization communicate with speed and agility, at scale.
Overview
WordPress is one of the leading content management systems (CMS) in the enterprise, and powering 43% of the web at large and 35% of the top 10,000 sites.
Research by WP Engine shows that WordPress and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) have nearly equal usage, with both used in about two-thirds of all enterprise organizations.
WordPress is also the most popular second-CMS in the enterprise, forming a critical part of how organizations communicate with their customers. Many marketing teams select WordPress for its low time-to-publish and agility.
Organizations choose WordPress for its unique combination of flexibility, extensive ecosystem, and proven scalability at enterprise level. As an open-source solution with a broad ecosystem of providers, WordPress provides a lower total cost of ownership compared to proprietary platforms.
From Fortune 500 companies to government agencies, across every vertical from publishing houses to banks to healthcare, WordPress is the technology of choice for agile teams who want to deliver results.
Read the State of Enterprise WordPress 2025 report
Capabilities · In core
As the world's most popular CMS, WordPress features a broad suite of tools for content authoring and management. The integral Block Editor (Gutenberg) provides a powerful yet intuitive interface, empowering teams to publish quickly.
Powerful APIs including custom post types and custom blocks provide developers with broad capabilities to deliver any experience.
WordPress includes powerful features to facilitate governance, based around the integrated Multisite feature.
Multisite provides a central dashboard to manage plugins and users in a single place, as well as enforcing network-wide policies and settings. Network-activated plugins provide an ability to customize the installation and provide functionality to all sites.
Capabilities · From the ecosystem
With a lean core, extended capabilities for WordPress are available through commonly-used, enterprise-proven ecosystem solutions.
Advanced search tools including faceted search, advanced ranking algorithms, and integrations with AI retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tooling are available with ElasticPress.
ElasticPress is powered by Elasticsearch, integrating automatically to index all content in WordPress. Developers can take advantage of the full Elasticsearch query language to build custom experiences.
Discover ElasticPress →WooCommerce is the world's most used ecommerce platform, built natively for WordPress.
With a wide ecosystem of first- and third-party add-ons, WooCommerce integrates with most payment gateways and services. Functionality can be extended through the same WordPress APIs.
Discover WooCommerce →Multi-language capabilities are available through MultilingualPress, a powerful multisite-based solution for managing translations at scale.
Discover MultilingualPress →Integrated directly with the content authoring experience, Accelerate provides blocks for segmentation and experimentation, unleashing the full power of the block editor.
Discover Accelerate →These solutions are used frequently in enterprise deployments, and are not an exhaustive list of all plugins. Agency partners ↓ can provide suggestions on particular solutions for your situation.
The case
As an open-source community-led project, WordPress is available without any costly licensing fees, unlike many proprietary solutions.
A wide range of providers in the hosting, agency, and integration (plugin) ecosystem creates a vibrant competitive market, reducing the need for bespoke solutions.
The core WordPress software has a strong reputation for security, with a bug bounty program and dedicated engineer staffing from multiple companies in the ecosystem, including Altis, Fueled, and Automattic.
While the flexibility of WordPress means some third-party vendors have a weaker reputation for security, the scale of WordPress means multiple independent security vendors provide robust tooling to protect enterprise deployments. This includes SAST, SIEM, and WAF tooling which can integrate with central IT platforms.
WordPress is extremely flexible, with a powerful plugin API to build custom functionality and integrations. Through the built-in REST API or open-source GraphQL plugin, WordPress can form the core of a composable headless CMS stack.
In production
Multi-language corporate sites with advanced content governance, editorial workflows, and brand management across global teams.
High-traffic news sites and digital magazines with real-time content delivery, ad management, and subscription services.
Large-scale online stores using WooCommerce with custom integrations for inventory, payment processing, and order management systems.
University and college websites with student portals, course catalogs, and integrated learning management systems.
Proof
WordPress is used by many of the world's largest enterprises. These selected case studies are provided by the agencies and hosting providers who helped deliver these solutions.
Partners
Most enterprises work with leading agencies who specialize in enterprise WordPress development, strategy, and support. These agencies can support your organization to build your DXP using WordPress, and have extensive experience working with enterprise.
Alley is a full-service digital agency with the foresight, perspective, and grit to power your brightest ideas and build solutions for your most evasive problems.
As a leading enterprise WordPress agency, we empower big brands and global newsrooms to publish rich digital content faster and easier than ever before.
The Code Company build digital publishing websites, ad tech and subscription platforms. Trusted WordPress VIP agency & WP Engine strategic partner.
Crowd Favorite is a world-class technology agency specializing in digital strategy, Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) and Open Source.
Our brilliant team creates inspiring and authentic digital solutions for some of the most beloved brands in the world.
rtCamp provides finely-crafted, powerful WordPress enterprise solutions and consulting that empower your audience & employees alike.
Syde, Europe's biggest WordPress agency, specializes in enterprise-level multisite environments. Well-known for scalable, performant, and secure web solutions.
WebDevStudios is a website design and development agency that builds robust solutions with WordPress, the platform that powers over 43% of the web.
XWP's on-demand product teams deliver performance-oriented WordPress solutions for Earth's biggest storytellers.
These providers are part of the Scale Consortium, the canonical group of enterprise agencies for WordPress.
Infrastructure
For the best experience, select a managed WordPress hosting platform. These platforms provide a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) experience, ready for the enterprise.
Enterprise-only managed hosting for WordPress, by the people who built it — including the cofounder of WordPress and creator of the REST API.
Case studies: NerdWallet, Red Bull Media House, Standard Chartered.
Cloud: AWS. Certifications: SOC2 Type II, OSPAR, Cyber Essentials.
Our enterprise WordPress hosting provides a fast, reliable, and secure home for your online presence. Focus on growing your business.
Case studies: Konica Minolta, ClickUp, WordLift.
Cloud: GCP. Certifications: ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC2 Type II.
Pantheon Elite Plans for Enterprise deliver unparalleled website launch, uptime, and performance. Get Priority Support & 24/7/365 response time.
Case studies: Princeton, Pernod Ricard, The New Statesman.
Cloud: GCP. Certifications: SOC2 Type II, TX-RAMP Level 1.
Build, publish, and scale without limits. WordPress VIP delivers the speed, security, and flexibility enterprises need for measurable results.
Case studies: CNN Brasil, Recurrent Ventures, Pew Research Center.
Cloud: Own infrastructure. Certifications: FedRAMP Moderate, GovRAMP Moderate, SOC 2 Type 1, TX-RAMP Level 2.
WP Engine® is a trusted provider of enterprise hosting for WordPress. Learn how our solutions can help you drive growth and innovation.
Case studies: Costa Vida, BG Foods, The New Home Company.
Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP. Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, ISO 27001.
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FAQ
No singular company acts as the official vendor, but many leading companies contribute significantly to WordPress and can guide you through implementation of your WordPress platform.
WordPress is an open-source, community-led project with a large ecosystem. WordPress is developed by a wide variety of companies and volunteer contributors.
WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation, a California-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Yes, WordPress itself is very secure, with only a small number of low impact CVEs reported each year. The official WordPress security team includes dedicated engineering staffing who operate a robust bug bounty program.
The flexibility of WordPress' plugin system means that less-reputable vendors may create insecure plugins, which are sometimes erroneously reported as vulnerabilities in WordPress.
Powerful security tooling is available for WordPress, including static analysis (SAST) tooling for development. These tools are used by most enterprise agencies and product companies, ensuring safety of your site.
Security tools and research from vendors such as Patchstack and Wordfence provides strong additional capabilities.
Whether in-house or with an agency, we can help you find the right partner for your enterprise WordPress project.