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WordCamp DC was a blast! This weekend left me thinking, how has this not happened before? The quality of speakers and variety of sessions came together at the historic Carnegie Library to create a truly unique experience and I cannot wait for WordCamp DC 2018. I would have never guessed this was a first-time event […]

I’m so excited to be speaking at the WordCamp DC! Not only is this my first time speaking at WordCamp it’s the first ever WordCamp DC. The event is less than one week away and event organizers really have me looking forward to the event with the constant stream of updates on social media announcing […]

WordCamp Europe is over and the community has outdone themselves again! This world class event brought together the largest number of WordPress developers and users in one place. Hosted in Paris at the Les Docks de Paris this year, with over 1,900 in attendance and available on live stream if you couldn’t make the event. […]

WordCamp Kyoto WordCamp Kyoto 2017 ended this past weekend and we were sad to see it go. It was such a well planned and designed event, packed with seasoned speakers, attendees, contributors, and sponsors. If you missed the event but plan on visiting Kyoto in the future, be sure to check our Kyoto guide. Something […]

This release focused on the Shifter API. For us, evolving the API is an opportunity to improve speed, give devs more resources to build tools and plugins with Shifter, and allow our developers to write new features. It started as a WordPress static site generator and evolved Shifter as a fully hosted WordPress solution. Static […]

Custom Artifact Names A few weeks ago, we had released the Artifacts feature. This introduced the ability to create and save versions of your site for deployment. These come in handy for rolling back features or setting up staging sites before going into production. You can now modify Artifacts with a custom unique name. Say […]

This August Dan Olson of DigitalCube is attending the inaugural WordCamp for Publishers as a speaker presenting on the topic of security and representing Shifter as an event sponsor. WordCamp for Publishers is focused on, well, publishers but a lot more than that. From the lineup so far sessions will include global censorship on the web […]

Shifter is headed to WordCamp Kyoto as a 2017, Gold Sponsor. This year’s theme is: connect to __, which is quite fitting considering the growing number of applications, devices, and new ways developers are discovering to use WordPress. As the event site states, WordCamp Kyoto 2017 aims to make it a place where various products and people can […]

Artifacts on Shifter give users flexibility over how they deploy and manage specific versions of WordPress sites on Shifter. Much like backups or snapshots, Artifacts are a copy of your entire site at a specific moment. Each time you generate a new version of your Shifter site, it’s kept as an Artifact. Like a git […]

This latest release includes improvements overall and added features to help manage projects. We are committed to continually improve Shifter so send us your feedback! If you have an idea or request, let us know. @getshifter User Interface Improvements Project Name Updates Changed Project ID to Project Name so it’s easier to find and reference […]

Our latest Shifter release includes the “Skip Pages” plugin, a WordPress hotfix update, improved service with Intercom Chat Support, and a highly requested feature for extending preferred domain name options. New Feature!: Shifter Skip Pages Plugin This WordPress plugin for Shifter was designed to skip sometimes unnecessary pages such as Archives, Attachment Pages, RSS Feeds and […]

Deciding to power WordPress with Aurora was easy. Amazon Aurora is a drop-in MySQL replacement built and managed by AWS that comes with unparalleled speed, scalability, and durability. To start our migration and upgrade, we began performance testing and focused on a few areas like admin performance, publishing, reads, and errors. What we found is that the […]

Deciding to move your online business to WordPress comes with no shortage of plugin options. As the number of WordPress eCommerce plugins continues to grow there are more 3rd party providers offering product integrations with WordPress. Choosing which plugins or provider to use on Shifter comes with a few considerations. Shifter works by transforming each […]

Building Shifter we aimed at creating something that was more secure, scalable, and fast. Really Fast. By design those first two, secure and scalable, are taken care of. The unique way Shifter handles the WordPress installation and Dashboard is so that only Shifter users can access that area. Placing each WordPress installation in a secure […]

Shifter is now backed by Amazon Aurora! With the introduction of Amazon Aurora this release has been our most powerful yet. Increase speeds of 60-80% by migrating to our latest platform release. We encourage all customers to update for added performance, security, and stability. Let’s get your site moving at lightning speed! These features are […]

Dear Shifter Customer, We are writing to share some exciting news! Starting today the current Pay-As-You-Go model will be replaced with new fixed plan options. We want Shifter to be simple and think the pricing should be too. You spoke, we listened, and thank you for the feedback. Get started for as low as $15/mo […]

Shifter makes it possible to host your WordPress websites statically across a variety of CDNs. While this innovation solves a number of problems (and provides many cost and workload benefits, as described in our Shifter Case blog post), there is one thing Shifter websites cannot handle: dynamic functions handled by PHP. But there’s good news: […]

You know that team Shifter is here to make your life easier, one static WordPress website at a time. Well, now we’ve gone and upped our game by partnering with Netlify, the automated content-delivery experts.   Netlify is a unified platform that automates code to create high-performance, easily maintainable websites and apps. They integrate with […]