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Best-in-Class Digital Experience for Orthopedic Patients on WordPress Multisite

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Best-in-Class Digital Experience for Orthopedic Patients on WordPress Multisite

Spire Orthopedic Partners had to make a strategic investment. A rapidly expanding network of orthopedic practices, Spire needed to modernize their online presence to reflect their commitment to care.

Coalmarch Ditched DIY Hosting and Now Wins Clients with a 5-Minute Site Preview

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Coalmarch Ditched DIY Hosting and Now Wins Clients with a 5-Minute Site Preview

Coalmarch is a full-service growth marketing agency built exclusively for pest control and lawn care companies, providing SEO, digital advertising, and website development that drive lead generation

After the Patch: A Practical IT Response Model for WordPress Vulnerabilities

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After the Patch: A Practical IT Response Model for WordPress Vulnerabilities

Patching a WordPress vulnerability is necessary, but it is not the same as proving that your organization is secure. After a critical issue such as wp2shell, IT teams need to know which sites were a

Virginia Credit Union: Driving 42% Web Revenue Growth with Pantheon and COLAB

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Virginia Credit Union: Driving 42% Web Revenue Growth with Pantheon and COLAB

Richmond-based Virginia Credit Union (VACU) has $7 billion in assets and has served members for almost a century with affordable banking, loans, mortgages, and free financial education. For a credit

Next.js Hosting From Free Tier to Production Scale

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Next.js Hosting From Free Tier to Production Scale

Next.js hosting is no longer a choice between Vercel and a handful of compromises. That makes the hosting decision broader. A free tier may be perfectly adequate for a prototype, while a site may and

Managed Updates: Say “Yes” to Open Source and Focus on Results

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Managed Updates: Say “Yes” to Open Source and Focus on Results

I’m thrilled to announce Pantheon is now offering Managed Updates for both WordPress and Drupal. This release has been nearly a year in the making, and stems directly from our strategic acquisition a

DXP vs WebOps: What's Best for Your Web Team?

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DXP vs WebOps: What's Best for Your Web Team?

Editor's note, April 20, 2022: In the two years since we published this blog post the shortcomings of monolithic DXPs have become clearer in the industry. The term "Composable DXP" is picking up as a

Three Lessons From Taking Gutenberg to Drupal

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Three Lessons From Taking Gutenberg to Drupal

Content authoring can be painful. Drupal Gutenberg is an editor, originally written by the WordPress community, that makes it easy to create content—from long-form feature articles to rich landing As

Seven Steps to Becoming a More Inclusive Leader

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Seven Steps to Becoming a More Inclusive Leader

Becoming an inclusive leader isn’t always easy. We hear time and again that diverse teams are happier and more successful, but day-to-day, it’s easy to push aside the difficult questions of inclusive

Adopting Agile Development in Remote Teams

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Adopting Agile Development in Remote Teams

Remote working can exacerbate the worst failings of waterfall web development—the practice of developing websites in discrete linear steps, which means work must happen sequentially, not and projects

How Our Community is Helping Others During COVID-19

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How Our Community is Helping Others During COVID-19

From sewing face masks for senior homes, to offering free courses on happiness and perspective, many people in the Pantheon community are busy spreading positivity. Image During times of crisis and a

Pantheon Hero Spotlight: Steve Lavigne, Director of Technology

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Pantheon Hero Spotlight: Steve Lavigne, Director of Technology

Could a single line of dialogue in a blockbuster movie change the course of your entire life? For Steve Lavigne, Director of Technology for OPIN Software, it was seven words in the original Jurassic

CMS Publishing Explained for Enterprise Teams

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CMS Publishing Explained for Enterprise Teams

A content management system (CMS) lets teams create, edit, manage and publish digital content without writing code. For enterprise publishing teams, the CMS is the central system that handles from to

How to Check out Drupal 9 on Pantheon!

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How to Check out Drupal 9 on Pantheon!

In case you haven’t heard, Drupal 9.0 will be released on June 3rd, 2020. Drupal 9.0 is the culmination of years of work by thousands of people that updates Drupal’s underlying dependencies, removes

Tracing WordPress Actions and Filters

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Tracing WordPress Actions and Filters

Ever wonder exactly what is going on inside WordPress? As with any PHP script, you have a lot of good options for debugging and tracing what is going on. However, if all you want is a quick dump of a

How Mediacurrent Built an Open Source Emergency Response Site

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How Mediacurrent Built an Open Source Emergency Response Site

Organizations can spin up a website in a day—a spectacular acceleration of the time it typically takes to launch a site that is secure, scalable, and user-friendly. - Christine Flynn Bryan, a digital

The Role of Content Marketing in a Remote-Only World

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The Role of Content Marketing in a Remote-Only World

Content at its best—reliable, helpful, timely, honest—is what we need right now. As the world’s teachers, journalists, government agencies, and medical workers respond to the rapidly developing they

9 Tips for Giving Engaging Virtual Presentations

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9 Tips for Giving Engaging Virtual Presentations

Image As major events are canceled around the world, and employees are urging staff to work from home, that presentation you’ve been diligently working toward might now be virtual. The response to to

What you need to know about Advanced Global CDN

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What you need to know about Advanced Global CDN

When we launched Pantheon’s Global CDN back in 2017, we did so to deliver a faster and more secure experience to the hundreds of thousands of sites that rely on Pantheon every single day. As the of a

Pantheon Hero Spotlight: Monica Flores, Technical Project Manager

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Pantheon Hero Spotlight: Monica Flores, Technical Project Manager

Make a difference in the world by doing what you love. If Monica Flores had a mantra, that’s what it would be. A veteran Drupal coder, Monica promotes philanthropy to create positive change through a

Find Your North Star

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Find Your North Star

Image Agile has been the game-changer of the digital era. It’s what the best software-engineering and product-development teams use to create successful products—and what enables their companies to a

Pantheon Hero Spotlight: Alex Vasquez, Principal at DigiSavvy

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Pantheon Hero Spotlight: Alex Vasquez, Principal at DigiSavvy

One of the mantras of WebOps is to “fail fast” and iterate. Alex Vasquez is a prime example of that lesson. His first foray into freelance WordPress development was a quick and decisive failure. But

Headless Commerce Architecture and Performance Gains

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Headless Commerce Architecture and Performance Gains

Headless commerce has become one of the defining architectural shifts in modern e-commerce, but the term is often reduced to a simple idea of “decoupling the frontend from the backend”. In reality, a

CMS for Higher Education – Open Source vs. Proprietary

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CMS for Higher Education – Open Source vs. Proprietary

University websites are rarely just one website anymore. Most schools are managing dozens, sometimes hundreds, of departmental sites with small teams, aging workflows and growing compliance pressure.

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