Featured Partners

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Service Partners

We’ve partnered with these solution providers and agencies to provide development and design services for your WordPress.com VIP projects.

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Technology Partners

We’ve partnered with these services to provide a seamless, one-click integration with our WordPress.com VIP platform—and each is certified and supported by the WordPress.com VIP team.

The world’s largest storytelling platform.

Drive Engagement and Revenue With The Most Powerful Online Video Platform

Real-time web analytics for big-time publishers.

Plan awesome content. Save a bunch of time.

Make your WordPress site social in a couple of clicks, powered by Facebook.

Search and use Getty Images photos in your posts without ever leaving WordPress.com.

Knowledge Delivered.

Inform Your World

User Registration and Social Integration for WordPress.com VIP.

The World’s Most Popular Video Player.

Unlock a Premium Revenue Stream with Brand Content and Native Ads.

NewsCred is the leading content marketing platform.

Unlocking the true revenue potential of digital TV.

Insights through analytics.

Embed customized playful content from Playbuzz.com into your WordPress site.

Real-Time Content That Drives Your Business.

Engage, Then Re-Engage Your Audience via Web Push Notifications!

Leading provider of personalized marketing communications.

Content ROI made simple.

Moving Stories. Forward.

Get more readers and traffic from Twitter & Facebook with SocialFlow Optimized Publisher™.

Make the Web Tell a Story.

Making Complex Video Simple

Tinypass is the best way to charge for access to content on your site.

Kick brand operations into overdrive.

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VIP Partnership Overview

We created the Featured Partner Program to work with world-class products and service providers to provide seamless integration with our WordPress.com VIP platform. Each one of our partners is carefully chosen and brings a unique set of skills and expertise to the platform.

Service Partners

Our Service Partners are a group of VIP-approved WordPress development and interactive agencies that we have partnered with to help our clients build best of breed WordPress sites. We work closely with our Service Partners to keep them up to date on best practices, security standards, performance optimizations, and any other platform-specific needs for WordPress.com VIP, so our mutual clients can rest assured that they’re in good hands when launching or re-launching sites on our platform.

The program is in high-demand, and unfortunately we can’t work with everyone, no matter how qualified. That said, if you’ve got some exceptional WordPress developers and have worked with enterprise-level clients on WordPress implementations that will blow us away, please get in touch!

Theme and Site Design

Whether you’re looking to redesign an existing site or to build a new theme, working with our Service Partners helps make that process seamless. Our partners have significant experience building sites and themes on WordPress.com VIP.

Content Migration

Data migration is not an easy task, but with our Service Partners, you can rest assured that they have you covered. Our partners have worked with many VIPs over the years to make sure all content, assets, links, and references are transferred accordingly.

Custom Plugins

Our Service Partners have built numerous custom plugins for VIPs and our Featured Technology Partners. They are the best resource for scoping, designing and building plugins on WordPress.com VIP.

Technology Partners

The Featured Technology Partner Program for WordPress.com VIP provides a platform for 3rd parties to provide VIP approved integrations to our roster of amazing clients. We work with key partners in various categories to bring a set of products and features to our VIPs and are always looking for new partners to expand that offering.

What we look for

Product Fit: our focus is bringing the best of breed products and tools to our clients.
Technology Fit: we value working with partners who have a good understanding of the WordPress.com platform and have a clear vision for what an integration would look like.
Cultural Fit: we do things a little differently at Automattic (for the better we think) and we look for partners who have the same attitude towards some core principals — open source, collaboration, and quality.

How the program works

Typically partners submit a WordPress.com VIP ready plugin to be reviewed by our team (some integrations may be API-based, instead) for feedback on performance, security, forward-compatibility, etc. Partners pay a one-time set up fee for reviewing the plugin and a quarterly fee to participate in the program.

Seamless Integration

The approved integration will live in the VIP Dashboard for easy activation, offering a simple way for non-technical users to activate 3rd-party features and services without having to rely on their (usually overworked!) colleagues in engineering. The specifics of the plugin/integration vary by partner — and that’s something our support engineers will guide your team on as well.

Marketing

Partners who join the program benefit organically from being featured in the program, and we also help provide pro-active outreach through our newsletters, blogs, and webinar events to help spread the word about our partners. We’re also excited to collaborate on more customized co-marketing efforts as well.

Maintenance & Support

Once the integration is live on the WordPress.com VIP platform, our team of world-class developers will provide first-line support for VIP users of the integration — that way if a mutual customer hits a critical issue in the middle of the night, we can help make sure it’s fixed ASAP and there’s no impact to their service. We’ll also work hand-in-hand with partners to fix any issues that may arise.