We’re pleased to announce two new additions to our list of Featured Service Partners, the ‘premier league’ of specialist WordPress development agencies.
WordPress.com VIP exists to help high-traffic and high-profile publishers get the most out of WordPress. To do so, we work with the best agency partners to deliver best-in-class solutions. Our list has been kept deliberately small and selective: but we’ve been looking to expand it just a little, not least to improve our geographic coverage. And today we’re excited to introduce our new UK-based partner, Big Bite Creative, and our new Toronto-based partner, Trew Knowledge.
Big Bite Creative come from Middlesbrough in the north-east of England, away from the more familiar digital centres of London and Manchester. They are comfortable working with clients in the UK, elsewhere in Europe, or in North America, which currently accounts for about half their business.
They first came to our attention with open sourced projects like Herbert and Ship, demonstrating an awareness of what’s happening on other platforms, and how similar methods might benefit WordPress developers. We also loved their efforts to build a creative community in what they admit is an ‘often overlooked’ part of the UK.
Trew Knowledge is our first Canadian partner, based in Toronto. Although Trew Knowledge is new to the partner program, they are not new to VIP. We’ve worked with them for several years already, as the developers behind the Canadian Olympic Committee website, hosted on WordPress.com VIP.
Trew Knowledge has always focused on building solutions that emphasize speed and performance without compromising security — aspects that align perfectly with our vision for the platform. They’re excited to combine their experience in large-scale digital enterprise solutions with VIP’s robust cloud based infrastructure for clients.
Both teams bring something new to our Featured Partner Program, and we’re delighted to welcome them aboard. The VIP team will be happy to advise on the contribution they, or any of our Partners can make to your next WordPress project.
Congratulations – is the process for selecting new partners transparent? Would be curious to see what are the requirements and how were the existing providers selected, since I can’t recall meeting some of them anywhere. Two of the providers’ websites aren’t even on WordPress.
It’s a deliberately short list, tailored to the kind of client inquiries we receive at WordPress.com VIP. We don’t publish a checklist of criteria, but if you look at the Featured Partners on our list, it’s clear they share certain characteristics. Of course, they all have proven expertise building complex sites with WordPress, possibly alongside other technologies. They also have demonstrable experience in markets like media and technology, in which most of VIP’s clients tend to operate. We love to see our Partners engaging with the WordPress community, but it’s fair to say some are more visible on ‘the circuit’ than others.