WP Engine announced it has acquired Big Bite, a UK-based WordPress agency known for building advanced editorial and publishing workflow tools for large media organizations, as the company deepens its focus on serving publishers and agency partners.
WP Engine, which provides WordPress hosting and related developer and agency products, said Big Bite has spent more than a decade developing newsroom platforms, publishing workflows, and specialized tooling to improve how organizations create, manage, and distribute digital content. Big Bite’s past client work has included major media brands such as The Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Metro, and Macworld, according to the companies.
As part of the transaction, WP Engine said Big Bite’s agency business will be wound down, with its team transitioning into WP Engine’s Engineering organization. The combined teams plan to build software intended to enhance publishing solutions for WP Engine customers and its global network of agency partners, the companies said.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
WP Engine said it supports more than 1.5 million websites and offers enterprise-grade WordPress solutions and tools, including products such as Local and Advanced Custom Fields, among others. Big Bite was founded in 2011 and has specialized in large-scale WordPress publishing ecosystems, high-traffic sites, custom themes, and plugins for enterprise organizations with complex editorial needs.
KEY QUOTES:
“Today’s acquisition advances WP Engine’s commitment to serve publishers with products that enable them to more efficiently create, organize, and share content. Together, we’ve successfully aligned our capabilities to support some of the world’s biggest publishers… and we are in a unique position to bring intelligent, purpose-built software solutions to market for agency partners and publishers that will improve how they deliver digital content and optimize workflows.”
Ramadass Prabhakar, Chief Technology Officer, WP Engine
“We are excited to bring our two organizations together to unlock growth and develop unique product offerings for digital agencies and brands that partner with WP Engine. By uniting our strengths in engineering, we can provide even greater value to WP Engine’s agency partners looking to elevate publishing capabilities.”
Jason Agnew, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Big Bite
