We are proud to share that Multidots has moved up the ranks again and is officially a WordPress VIP Gold Partner! When we first became a WordPress VIP Silver Partner in June 2019, only 34% of the web was taking advantage of everything WordPress had to offer. Now in 2022, 43% of the online world is powered by WordPress, and as a VIP Gold Partner, we’re ecstatic to have contributed to that growth.
For those who are unfamiliar, we are a global development agency that helps publishers and digital organizations maximize their website performance with plugins and services that are efficient and 100% results-driven. With our excellent IT and Engineering teams, we’ve been able to collaborate on and successfully execute mass-scale projects with major enterprise clients like National Associations of Broadcasters, News Corp, PMC, and Ask Media. Thanks to our efforts, our clients all now have personalized environments that are secure, agile, and fresh.
Besides our clients’ success, being a part of the WordPress VIP Partner program and working with the VIP team at Automattic has exceeded all our expectations. We love working with them because they not only have provided us with the best tools and resources to succeed, but they are our loudest cheerleaders. They’ve supported us and have given amazing guidance when we’ve run into obstacles.
We may be biased, but our entire team continues to show why Multidots is a leader in the WordPress field. The drive, kindness, and poise under pressure we have are the keys that keep us and our work competitive and innovative.
We Help Publishers Succeed
As a progressive leader in publishing solutions, we have shown how hard maintaining efficient and profit-focused editorial workflows can be for technical teams at publishing organizations. These teams have too much to handle because many of them are still trying to use out-of-date tools and processes to update their websites and get content published. Because of this, they usually don’t see that they are wasting time, labor, and revenue that could be invested back into their organization.
Ultimately, we got fed up watching publishers not reach their fullest potential, which is why we decided to share our expertise and partner with technical teams to help them optimize their workflows and ecosystems for premium efficiency and performance.
A few of our key tools and services that will help streamline publishing process and business efforts include:
Multicollab
To say our plugin, Multicollab, is a gamechanger is an understatement. The plugin brings Google Doc-style editorial comments to WordPress to simplify your publishing experience. With just this single tool, you can invite others outside of your team to collaborate on pieces, add comments to any post or media, and have your technical team keep track of all activities on the Advanced Dashboard.
Multicollab is 100% compatible with the Gutenberg Block Editor for WordPress, which means that you can confidently make better edits and transform your content in real time. You won’t have to worry about comments or requests slipping through the cracks or your team losing track of deadlines.
Migration to the WordPress VIP Platform
Remember: just because you think that your website is good doesn’t mean it can’t be better. As a VIP Partner, we can help you migrate your existing WordPress website to the VIP platform so that your tech teams can have access to fresh support, flexibility, and performance features that will transform your editorial needs and keep your business competitive.
Having the migration option is crucial for publishers because their website needs will change as they refocus goals and improve editorial processes. If your technical team doesn’t have the resources they need to help your website keep up with all the changes, you won’t be able to convert visitors into customers — no matter how good your content is.
How We are Changing the Online World
Years ago, we wouldn’t have believed anyone if they had told us that every line of code we were going to create would touch millions of online users and transform technical teams everywhere daily. That quickly became a reality for us and we’re glad that we’re trusted as a principal voice in the WordPress community.
As stated on our Impact Page,we’ve already been able to reach 100+ million people through our coding, and we hope to hit 1 billion very soon by continuing to provide more meaningful publishing experiences, and streamlined, results-driven workflows.
What a moment! Our baby, Multidots, was born during the recession of 2009. Today, we are celebrating its 11th birthday amid a pandemic and crisis. We wish it would have been born with some immunity for recessions as well 🙂
It has been an incredible 11-year journey. Every passing year we have created new memories, which will make for great stories to tell.
We are grateful for our 12 loyal and “oldest” Dots — Chirag, Mayur, Nidhi, Kaushik, Bhavin, Parth, Tejas, Rajvi, Sagar, Nishit, Nitishchandra, and Nimesh, for their significant contributions, their dedication, and their confidence in the vision of Multidots. We feel honored and pleased to pay a small tribute by featuring them on our anniversary doodle.
Multidots is a combination of all these smart Dots who are driven by their passion for solving problems and serving our clients. Their incredible minds have solved thousands of new problems, and their commitment has brought a big smile to our clients’ faces during these 11 years. They are not just the faces on our anniversary cover, but they are the faces behind the scene, providing exceptional services to our clients for the past 11 years.
Today, we are celebrating:
The spirit of striving and surviving
The commitment of care and compassion
The excellence of engineering and efficiency
The act of heart and mind
The passion of serving people and solving problems
…and we are celebrating all those joyful moments, incredible stories, and life-long memories which all us Dots (as well as ex-dots) have created together—looking forward to creating new and more magical moments in the years to come!
Anil kicked-off the challenge by showing his latent talent of brewing a black (drip) coffee. He also explained a bit about the types of coffee and different methods to brew coffee. ☕
Jeremy showed his cooking talent by preparing delicious Lemon Ricotta Pancakes. It melt-in-your-mouth soft and tender, fluffy, and you’ll love that bit of brightness and tang from the lemon. 🥞
April 04, 2020
Vibha Tiwari (Manager – QA)
Vibha prepared a loaf of Roti (Indian bread), Yellow Dal, & Steam Rice using traditional recipes. She used a variety of ingredients to prepare this food dish. 🙂
April 04, 2020
Mary Jane Zorick (Technical Account Manager)
MJ showed her cooking talent by preparing a very American comfort food – Chicken Potpie and yummy Banana Muffins with Chocolate Chips. 🥧
In this unique challenge, Kushal showed his hidden talent of brewing a Dalgona Coffee which is trending in India during this quarantine time. Indeed, it is mouthwatering. Isn’t it? 😋
Comedy King, Nishit showed his cooking talent by preparing the hot favorite Indian fast-food dish “Pav Bhaji” using different fresh veggies & spices. 🥦
Meet prepared one of the most favorites breakfast dish “Bataka Pauva”, Light & Healthy. It seems very tasty. Recommend to try this dish in your breakfast! 👌
People who love to eat spicy food, this dish is especially for them. Yes, one of the popular seasoned Rajasthani dishes “Daal Bati” prepared by Janki with a spicy tadka. 🌶
This is a novel time in our history. The COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on the health of many families, the businesses we rely upon, the health of the global economy, and the way we live our daily lives. As we all continue to navigate through these unprecedented and evolving challenges, we want you to know that Multidots is here for you and prepared to face the challenging phase.
In our more than 10 years of business, we’ve weathered the storms of the Year 2008-09 financial crisis and the recession that followed, city/state level curfew, internet outage because of curfew and fire in our office which had touched our regular office life badly, and throughout this journey, our mission of Serving People, be it our employees, our customers and our partners, remained our top priority.
All these unfortunate events taught us that ‘it’s never too late’ to kick-start the work on Business Continuity Plan. Also, we have been always kept on updating our learning from the events, which has helped us so far to remain better positioned to recover from the business interruption, financial impact, and loss of life that a natural disaster or man-made event may cause.
Having a pre-defined and well-documented business continuity plan has helped us to clearly communicate how our business will respond during such an unfortunate event — and indeed, is one of the best investments our company has made. As we address a pandemic there is no doubt – it will become a chapter in the history books. However, in this challenging phase, our commitment to Serving People will remain unchanged.
The intent of sharing our readiness in the form of a Business Continuity Plan is to provide assurance to our existing and prospective clients that Multidots is enabled to respond and ready to recover from a disruption.
People
Supporting our Dots during this period is one of the priorities and they are equally showing ownership in providing the services our clients need and expectations. We have taken all necessary actions as soon as COVID-19 has started spreading,
To protect the physical well-being and financial security of our employees so that they are in a position to care for their health while also supporting work routine.
Preparing our team for remote work. At present, 100% of our global workforce is working remotely.
Dots have adequate facilities like high-end internet connectivity, proper home office set-up which will help them to maintain productivity.
The commitments we have made to support and care for our Dots ensure that we are ready and equipped also to support our clients during this uncertain phase.
Backup
Be it Project, Resource or Internet backups – We Are Ready!
As per our standard practice, we keep up to 15% of engineers on the bench. While on the bench, we utilize them for internal tools, training and research work. We allocate these resources to live projects in case of an emergency.
All the project managers & technical leaders are closely connected with the internal weekly process meeting. In case of a need for a resource, they can easily sync up with each other.
We are confident to handle up to 15% of team fluctuation. In the case of greater impact, where team fluctuation reaches more than 15%, our first preference is to talk to our other ongoing projects/customers to understand their priority and check if we can release resources and serve the urgency of other projects.
In the worst-case scenario, if the team fluctuation is >15%, that is a scenario where we will come back to you to find alternate solutions. We have trusted strategic partnerships with other small but skilled development agencies in India, and we are prepared to lease developers from such companies with short notice.
Being a WordPress agency, we have all our developers trained to follow our best practices including, development workflow, coding standards, and advanced WordPress knowledge. Thus, our developers are easily able to swiftly, pick up the new project in between, with a quick Business Logic knowledge transfer.
Daily scrum meetings are in our blood. When working in a team, each person in the team is aware of the latest status of the project. In the scenario, when a Project Manager is unable to work, a Team Leader or Technical Analyst or other Project Manager (we have a team of 6 project managers) can take over the project in case of urgency. Daily scrum meetings allow another developer to pick up a team-mate’s task in case of short term unavailability of a developer.
Internet
All our global workforce has a high end – stable internet connectivity. Hence we face negligent to minimal work disruptions due to internet connectivity. In addition, Internet connectivity and Electricity in Large/Mega/Metro cities have been most stable and in its best phase from the last 4+ years in India and fortunately, our majority of team members are located in large cities like Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Delhi or Mumbai. Hence, internet connectivity has not been a concern.
All our employees have a stable broadband internet connection and use one of these broadbands while working remotely:
Airtel Broadband
GTPL Broadband
You Broadband
Reliance Broadband
Also, all of the team members have a backup option of 4G cellular connectivity in case their main broadband network is down. 4G is wide with good coverage.
Data Security & Protection
As a dynamic & trusted WordPress VIP Agency, our processes are fully derived to be compliant and we take ownership to maintain the safety & security of your valuable data. Integrity is our fundamental value and makes up the core of our corporate philosophy keeping us committed to center our engagement around this approach.
Date Security is critically important to us and we believe it is important for our clients to understand how well equipped we are.
All our servers are hosted on the cloud and fully secure with
Advanced Cloud DDoS Protection
Redundant cloud backups
Server Connectivity
All staging servers can be managed through VPN only
VPN connection rights are given to authorized Dots
Tools
Our process/tools are designed to support remote work. For Project Collaboration we use Basecamp or Teamwork which are on the cloud. It is easy to assign access to the new developer. Our Development workflow is integrated with Github CI/CD workflow, and our staging servers are in the cloud. Thus, this can be assigned easily with the right permissions.
Below are the tools we actively utilize to keep a track of all project-related conversations:
Slack – As per our process, for all running projects we create a project-specific channel i.e. “prj-<project_name>”. We also invite our Client on the same slack channel. This way all the project related conversation stays synced.
Basecamp – PMS to document/collaborate all project-related communication.
Teamwork – For Internal Task Management and Issue Tracking for all the projects. So any new developer can ramp up.
Zoom – Real-time Video Conferencing
Dialpad – For Leaders/Project Manager Direct Phone support
Github – Project Source code and Version Control Management
GSuit – At Multidots we use Google GSuit for our needs like Mail, Google Documents which is easily available to our team without any downtime.
Our bit in the COVID-19 phase
The following are some actions being taken to protect our clients, our people, facilities, and workloads.
We are extending the validity of support bundles for the clients who have purchased or willing to buy.
Dots are happy and flexible to adjust work hours to meet our clients’ new routine and work schedule if any.
Our HR & Operations team is continuously monitoring the situation and working tirelessly to help and educate our team to stay safe, healthy, and motivated.
We have created a Special Support Squad for our Dots which will be there for the team to provide morale to finance support.
Without a doubt, our greatest common achievement is how we have all reacted in challenging times. Dots, clients, partners, vendors, and support staff have all contributed tremendously to keep our operations running.
Normalcy will return. These are testing times, but our small Dots community has, we firmly believe, met that test so far.
We’re honoured to be one of the select few official WordPress VIP Agency Partners. With our participation in the VIP Featured Agency Partner program, our WordPress development services come with the extra benefits of the added security, flexibility and performance that most of our high-volume and enterprise projects demand.
The World of WordPress
WordCamps
With great enthusiasm, we were able to be a part of 11 different WordCamps across the globe in 2019 – WordCamp Pune, WordCamp Bangkok, WordCamp Kolkata, WordCamp Europe, WordCamp Nagpur, WordCamp Vadodara, WordCamp Udaipur, WordCamp USA, WordCamp for Publishers, WordCamp Düsseldorf, WordCamp Ahmedabad and proud to be volunteers, speakers, sponsors, and organizers of some of the WordCamps.
Happy Morning, WordCampers! All set for the day. Don’t miss to visit our booth if you are at @WCAhmedabad and say Hi by grabbing some exciting goodies. Multidots team is eager to welcome you at our booth. #WCAhmedabad #WordCamp #WordPress pic.twitter.com/tev79TGeLZ
Multidots (@multidots) December 14, 2019
What a Vibrant and Inspiring @WCEurope was!! Our COO @aslam4net and Dot @afsana_multani shared their amazing experience at @wpcafe with wonderful people. See you all next year for another amazing WordCamp Europe 2020 in Porto. #WCEU #WCEurope #Multidots #WPCafe pic.twitter.com/9lUoHUKXcK
Multidots (@multidots) June 24, 2019
Do_action charity hackathon
Multidots team and other community members from Ahmedabad (at our headquarter) organized the do_action charity hackathon and helped 6+ local non-profits to build their brand new websites.
Big applause for all the participants who contributed in Do ction charity Hackathon. #WordPress #Multidots #DoAction #hackathon #charity #WordPressCommunity #Event pic.twitter.com/xFyrvGuBX0
Multidots (@multidots) September 7, 2019
Big Talk at BigWP NYC
Our CEO & Co-founder, Anil Gupta talked about the engineering excellence that our team at Multidots demonstrated by leveraging the REST APIs to power the CNN of kicks and one of the largest digital publishers of NYC.
Five for the Future
Five for the Future encourages organizations to contribute five percent of their resources to WordPress development. Multidots pledged to sponsors 7 contributors for a total of 28 hours per week.
Sneaker News Case Study featured at WordPress VIP
We could not be more proud when our work on Sneaker News got featured by WordPress VIP.
Wish you had more time on your hands? Check out how our partner @multidots used the REST API to help sneaker mavens @SneakerNews reduce operations time by 65% https://t.co/4ze1nwROEG pic.twitter.com/QDioST9SDM
WordPress VIP (@WordPressVIP) January 17, 2020
60% of dots contributed to WordPress. Kudos to all our dots! 🎉
Our wall of fame
We dedicate our selection as “Top 1000 Global B2B Companies” on the clutch to our clients for trusting us, and our team for delivering that trust. We are honoured to be featured in the Clutch 1000.
Our CEO, Anil Gupta has the honor to talk about our Passion for “Serving People” at the forum on “Doing business between India and USA” organized by Official Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, and Fairfax County Economic Development Authority.
A podcast hosted by Brian Krogsgard from PostStatus and our own Anil Gupta on a candid talk about establishing a very people-first culture at Multidots.
Have a look at our CEO @guptaanilg sharing his vision with @Krogsgard about his journey & philosophies behind building Multidots @ https://t.co/YH2czdW47x pic.twitter.com/PrG4OPkC61
Multidots (@multidots) February 8, 2019
Asif Rahman did a podcast with our co-founders, Aslam and Anil. They covered great length and detail of Multidots’ origin story, journey, Ups-downs, cultures, and goals.
The Intro of Episode 4 of ‘Adda with Asif’ is coming live! I have @aslam4net & @guptaanilg , the co-founder of @multidots ! Here they told the story behind their name #Multidots ! Watch – https://t.co/P5RaVLgS2z #AddaWithAsif #WordPress #Entreprenuer #story pic.twitter.com/yzMEBiqEKl
M Asif Rahman ⓦ (@Asif2BD) January 13, 2019
Multidots Foundation organized the “Fight Against Hunger” event and distributed food hampers to needy people. Multidots foundation is a humble effort by our team at Multidots to give back to the community.
Charity for Humanity If you can’t feed a hundred people then just feed few. Multidots Foundation organized “Fight Against Hunger” event and distributed food hampers to needy people. https://t.co/W59MJDg60K #MDFoundation #MD10thAnniversary #Donation #Charity #Multidots pic.twitter.com/zfQBUNC1Vn
Multidots (@multidots) April 29, 2019
Our Global Footprints
We are always excited to meet new folks, share ideas, and learn. Hence, we travel, attend conferences, and meetups across the globe. Here are some of the events & conferences we went to.
We had a blast exhibiting at LeadsCon, Vegas event with our strategic partner Pressable. LeadsCon is one of the world’s largest conferences for the lead generation and performance marketing industry.
It’s been a great day so far at @leadscon. Website performance is key when you’re investing in driving traffic to your site! And both of our CEOs are having fun! @guptaanilg from @multidots and our very own @JayNewmanTX. #LeadsCon Booth 1218 pic.twitter.com/KeESXvM2NH
Pressable (@Pressable) March 6, 2019
Our CEO and Director of Business Development, Jeremy Fremont had a great time during PubCon, Vegas event connecting with people and businesses in the internet marketing industry.
Our participation in SMX East, New York gave us great insights into the importance of SEO in the publishing industry and enables us to serve our clients better.
Attending the Affiliate Summit East and Multidots Sponsored brunch during the event helped us to connect and build face-to-face relationships with online publishers, influencers, media owners, traffic sources, advertisers, global brands, networks, technology firms, agencies, and other solution providers.
Jeremy Fremont – Director of Business Development @ #ASE19
Multidots team attended and sponsored Laravel Meetup in Mumbai and had a great time connecting with key influencers, contributors, and experts in the Laravel framework and community.
Our COO and Co-founder, Aslam Multani, participated at Google for WordPress Publishers in Bangalore to fuel his obsession with website speed and performance on mobile devices.
Amazing speaker with good sense of humour to make session interesting and full of knowledge boast up community of WordPress and developers engaging more and more ,thank you @googleindia for such a wonderful meet-up look forward for more and more… #GFWP #GfWPINDIA #wordpress pic.twitter.com/nR2mNcvxOA
Khadija Shabbir (@khadz4) November 21, 2019
Noteworthy Highlights
Multidots and Pressable entered into a strategic partnership. Pressable offers a unique value proposition of low-cost but high-tech hosting infrastructure and high-touch customer services that makes them a great fit for our customer’s hosting needs.
Multidots is very happy to become a strategic partner of @Pressable. Let’s multiply our performance capabilities with the best growing agency. https://pressable.com/strategic-partners/multidots/… #Pressable #PressOn #Multidots #StrategicPartner
— Multidots (@multidots) July 12, 2019
Our website speed and performance tool – SpeedOMeter powers Pressable’s customers and users to test their website speed and performance issues.
We have joined the Performance Marketing Association as Solution Providers to help Advertisers and Publishers to maximize their revenue.
A BIG welcome to new member @multidots . Your membership makes a difference in our industry! #performancemarketing
PMA (@pmassociation) June 26, 2019
We also became a member of Leads Council. As a member of the Leads Council, we get an opportunity to member-exclusive events, forums, research that help us to gain key insights into the lead generation industry. It’s an added-value for our clients to work with us as we talk the same language and terminologies.
DotStore – a venture of Multidots released few new plugins and several other version upgrades to existing plugins. With 20,000+ download and 7000+ number sales, our DotStore serves and helps store owners around the world to run their online-shops efficiently.
Our new SaaS venture – Ruvvu made a debut in 2019. Ruvvu helps business owners around the world to collect and manage business reviews at an affordable price.
We have launched a new WordPress plugin – WPBRicks which offers 100+ readymade Gutenberg blocks design options to build awesome websites with just a few clicks.
A day in Multidots, video premier that showcases our culture, traditions, and routine at Multidots.
We launched a brand new website of Multidots that truly reflects our vision and commitment to serve and help “content publishers” around the world.
The Culture of Celebrations
As like every year, we have celebrated the festival of happiness with different events starting the first day with an “AdMac – Season 6”, second day “Hawaiian Day”, and on the third day, we have invited the creative tattoo artists to make sure that the year ending of our dots are remarkable. We had lots of fun, laugh, & of course enjoyed the delicious food.
With lots of fun & sweet memories we have completed the “Hawaiian Day” and the winner of this beautiful day is @YearOfTheHulk – Mr. Hawaiian & Snehi Patel – Ms. Hawaiian. Congratulations guys! 🏆🤗 #ChristmasCelebration2019 #Day2 #HawaiianDay #MDCulture pic.twitter.com/pKxey9yioT
Multidots (@multidots) December 30, 2019
🔥Creative Tattoo artists & Happy Meal are here to add more happiness on the last day of 2019. Dots are super excited to put some outstanding tattoo & make this day one of the memorable days of 2019. 💫✨🤗 #ChristmasCelebration2019 #Day3 #MDCulture pic.twitter.com/BNuJbSk4T4
Multidots (@multidots) December 31, 2019
We had a grand and glorious celebration of Multidots’ 10th Anniversary. We have invited all our existing dots with their family as well as our x-dots who contributed to the growth and success of Multidots. Catch glimpses of the journey here.
@multidots 10th Anniversary Celebration, Here are some glimpses of our beautiful event. Congratulations all the Dots on your well-deserved success and achievements. #MD10thAnniversary #Multidots #MDCulture #AwardCeremony #Celebration #GetTogether
Multidots (@multidots) May 7, 2019
Multidots often arrange in-house games tournaments and this allows to strengthen the bonding amongst the dots and add fun in day to day work. This time it was the Carrom & Ludo tournament and the dots had a pleasant time participating and cheering each other.
Woohoo!! Make some noise for the Champions!!! Congratulations to all the Carrom and Ludo Tournament Winners and Thank you all the Volunteer and Organizers for their constant support. #CarromTournament #LudoTournament #SaturdayFun #Multidots
AtMultidots, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of trends. We treat our client’ssuccess as our own, so their opinions matter most of all. Every year Clutchannounces the 1,000 highest performing B2B companies on their site based ontheir verified reviews — the Clutch 1000! We are thrilled to announce thatMultidots has been included on the Clutch 1000 for 2019!
Not only are we on the list, which places us in the top 1% of the more than 160,000 B2B companies on Clutch, but we are ranked #466! We are one of over 130 web development companies on the list and we are the only company based in Dunn Loring, Virginia!
We are honored to be featured in the Clutch 1000. This award would not be possible without our wonderful clients who left us reviews on Clutch. Based in Washington, DC, Clutch basis its rankings and ratings on research conducted by their independent team. This ensures that all information on the site has been verified.
Being in Clutch 1000 is the moment of proud and pleasure for all of us at Multidots. We are grateful to our clients for hiring us to solve some interesting problems. I am immensely proud of our team at Multidots for their state-of-the-heart “serving people” attitude, which shines by the reviews provided by our clients on Clutch.
CEO, Multidots
We are thankful for everything 2019 has brought and look forward to a successful 2020! Check out our Clutch profile to learn more about us or get in contact with us directly to start your new project today!
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and WordPress VIP announced and welcomed Multidots as WordPress VIP’s new silver Agency Partner to their highly regarded and exclusive list of featured agency partners.
WordPress VIP is the leading provider of enterprise WordPress. With 50-60% share of a global CMS market, WordPress powers more than 34% of the Internet and is the most popular CMS in the world. WordPress VIP provides a fully managed WordPress cloud platform for unparalleled scale, security, performance, and flexibility; as well as end-to-end guidance and hands-on support. Some of their enterprise clients include major brands like TED, CNN, Spotify, Capgemini, TechCrunch, Facebook, Microsoft and many more.
Multidots is a global Enterprise WordPress digital agency headquartered in India and operating as Multidots Inc with Sales & Support offices in Virginia and California, USA. With 110+ global and distributed team Multidots has prominent presence and clients in North America, Asia, and Europe. Multidots is one of the market leaders helping content marketing, performance marketing, lead generation and publishing companies like QuinStreet, ABUV Media, Higher Educations and All Star Directories with their digital strategy and content publishing needs. Enterprise Brands and Global Corporate Groups like Accenture, Jumeirah, NAB, and SneakerNews trust Multidots for their complex and large scale WordPress implementation and multi-platform integration.
Multidots helped ABUV Media to grow from annual revenue of $100K to almost $15M and startup to a successful acquisition. Their technical expertise in the areas of WordPress, Page Performance and Security have been the key to the success of our websites. Their selection to this highly exclusive and reputed WordPress VIP featured partner program boosted my trust and confidence in their talent and team. My best wishes to Anil, Aslam, and Multidots team for this remarkable achievement.
says Douglas Jones (former CEO & Co-Founder), ABUV Media.
Unlike many similar programs in the technology business, the WordPress VIP Featured Agency Partner program is kept deliberately small and highly selective. With the fact that this program was launched 9 years ago, they have still maintained only a handful of agencies as featured partners. It shows the commitment of selecting the partners proven themselves as true experts handling enterprise scale WordPress projects. After working closely with an agency on a VIP project they look for if your code is of consistently high quality, and if you engage positively with them and the client and based on that they may choose to invite you to become a Partner. And they also factor your involvement and contribution in the WordPress community. Other key criteria include clear product understanding and innovative go-to-market strategies.
In the course of 10 years, Multidots has achieved many milestones and success but Multidots making into the VIP’s featured agency partner is the biggest among all. Looking at the fact that there are approx 100,000+ WordPress Agencies in the world and 15,000+ agencies in India alone, Multidots being one of the two VIP agency partners in Asia is the moment of pride and honor for everyone at Multidots. But we also see this as a great opportunity and responsibility to work hard on improving the bad image of India as a country delivering the cheap and low-quality services.
Anil Gupta (Chief Executive Officer @ Multidots)
I would humbly and gracefully dedicate this achievement to our wonderful Dots (employees of Multidots) for their massive and meaningful contribution in the WordPress Community. Since the last three years, our 20 Dots contributed to WordPress core 12 times, 10 Dots contributed in WooCommerce 7 times, played a key role to manage 32 meetups at Ahmedabad WordPress Meetup Group, Sponsored the dozens of WordCamps around the World, organized the first ever WordCamp in Ahmedabad and speaking at local and global WordCamps and WordPress Events.
As a long-time member of the growing WordPress community, we’re thrilled to be featured in this unique partnership program with WordPress VIP. With our participation in the VIP Featured Agency Partner program, our WordPress development services come with the extra benefits of the added security, flexibility and performance that most of our high-volume and enterprise projects demand. We are very grateful and thankful to our existing clients for trusting us in solving some unique problems and motivating us. And we are thrilled and pumped up to continue on our mission – “Serving People & Solving Problems”.
Oracle Content Management (OCM) is a powerful albeit proprietary CMS, offering myriad robust features for companies across industries. It is known to cater to the needs of growing small businesses and enterprises alike, contributing to its overall popularity.
But even with all of its advantages, Oracle has announced that OCM will cease to operate on December 31, 2025, leaving users with a limited timeframe to migrate to an equally or more powerful CMS.
WordPress on the other hand, is an equally powerful and open-source CMS that can serve the growing needs of enterprises. Additionally, it is even easier for your team to learn and start using the WordPress platform without compromising on your content management requirements.
Let’s find out how much you can save (yearly) by switching your Oracle Content Management (OCM) website to WordPress
Here’s an approximate side-by-side cost comparison between OCM and WordPress for a large-scale enterprise website.
Cost
WordPress
OCM (Named User Plus)
OCM (Cloud)
License Cost for 25 Users (Annual)
$0
$50,000 to $100,000
$75,000 to $150,000
Design and Build (One-time)
$50,000 to $100,000
$100,000 to $200,000
$100,000 to $200,000
Cloud and Hosting (Annual)
$25,000+
$20,000 to $50,000
$0
Average Cost of 5 Premium Add-ons (Annual)
$25,000+
$25,000+
$25,000+
Support and Maintenance (Annual)
$12,000 to $24,000
$15,000 to $30,000
$20,000 to $50,000
Non-Production Installations (Annual)
$0
$15,000 to $30,000
$0
Total Cost (1st Year)
$100K to $180K
$250K to $500K
$250K to $450K
Total Cost (3 Years)
🏆 $200K to $350K
$550K to $1.3M
$550K to $900K
Note: These estimates are based on a website with approximately 1 million monthly visitors. All amounts are in USD, reflecting pricing data as of February 2025.
This guide will tell you all you need to know about migrating from Oracle Content Management to WordPress, and the steps involved in the process.
1. Pre-Migration Checklist
Every successful CMS migration starts with adequate preparation to ensure that every step of the process goes smoothly. You must double-check everything to limit the possibility of issues during the migration. And, it all starts from taking inventory of your current content.
Take Inventory of Your Content
You can take inventory of your content effectively by following certain structured steps, on your Oracle Content Management (OCM) website. Here are the steps involved in the process:
Step 1: Access the OCM Repository
Accessing your OCM repository is the first step in the process of taking inventory of your content. You will start by logging into your Oracle Content Management account. Here’s how you can go about it:
Open your web browser and go to the login page of Oracle Content Management, which is typically a part of the Oracle Cloud interface.
Enter your username and password to ensure you have the necessary access and permissions to access all the content management features.
Once logged in, you can access the OCM dashboard, familiarize yourself with the layout, and access the Navigation Menu. This menu is your singular access point to all the primary CMS-related settings such as Assets, Sites, Media, and more.
Step 2: Leverage the Business Asset Repositories
OCM utilizes Business Asset Repositories to sort and manage all the content on your website. Before you can even think of making any changes to this repository, be sure to get a better understanding of how it is structured as it contains different content formats, documents, and metadata.
You can easily make changes to your assets and even view or manage them directly from your dashboard.
You can then search and filter content in your repositories by using the search functionality, especially when you are looking for something specific. You can also search for content in the repository by:
Using the right keywords (full or partial names of your assets) to search for them
Filtering content based on metadata attributes that are associated with your content items
Step 3: Review Asset Details
When you are taking inventory of all the content assets in your repository, you will review individual assets in detail. Click on each item in the repository to review detailed information about it. This includes specific information about where the content asset is used and its metadata.
You can also learn about the lifecycle status of each document or content asset in the repository and whether it has been archived. Or if it requires any further updates.
Step 4: Conduct An Inventory Audit
This is also the right time to conduct a comprehensive inventory audit of your content and all your assets in the repository. You can conduct the audit manually or automatically using OCM features or other tools. Lastly, ensure to check for discrepancies between the expected and actual asset counts so that your records are always updated accurately.
Step 5: Conduct a Functionality Analysis
Conducting a functionality analysis is a huge part of ensuring a smooth transition from your OCM website to WordPress, as it will help you fully leverage the new platform. Here’s how you can perform the analysis effectively:
Define Objectives and Scope
Even if you are conducting the website migration as a result of Oracle Content Management end of life announcement, you must clearly outline the objectives and goals you want to achieve through the migration. Your migration goals can include reducing licensing costs, improving performance, or enhancing user experience.
You can then decide the content, assets, and functionalities you want to migrate. The scope of the migration will be based on the assets and functionalities you want to migrate from your current OCM platform to WordPress.
Consider the Existing Functionality
Just like you took inventory of all your content, you also need an inventory of all the functionalities in your CMS. Some of the functionalities that you may want to retain even after the migration include:
Workflow management
Content creation and editing
User roles and permissions
You must also analyze how frequently each feature is used and who are the ones using it. Eventually, this will help you prioritize the functionalities you consider essential to the migration process.
Review and Map Functionalities
Even if you are already using OCM, it is easy to lose track of all the features offered by the platform. To make the process smoother, familiarize yourself with the features offered by Oracle Content Management currently, and compare them with the existing functionalities.
This will help you identify the major gaps or enhancements required in your CMS. For every necessary feature, ensure that you have an equivalent in WordPress. In some cases, you may even experience slight modifications, which will not disrupt the whole process as long as the core functionality is addressed.
SEO Considerations
You must also pay attention to your current and expected SEO performance before selecting the right CMS and proceeding with the migration process. With that in mind, here are the primary SEO-related considerations to keep in mind before initiating the migration process:
Conduct an SEO Audit
To understand whether the current SEO performance of your OCM website is up to the standard, first conduct an SEO audit. A comprehensive SEO audit will tell you more about the features and areas that require work on your OCM website. These are the areas you aim to fix with your new WordPress website.
The results of your SEO audit will also tell you more about the strengths of your SEO strategy so that you can retain those actions and aspects even after you migrate to WordPress. What’s more, you will also have more clarity on high-value content and top-performing pages on your website.
Prepare and Follow an SEO Checklist
If your SEO audit provides insights into your current SEO performance, your SEO checklist will give you more detailed insights into the kind of SEO performance you aspire for in your new WordPress website.
Prepare a comprehensive SEO checklist that includes all the SEO-related tasks and actions that will help keep your SEO performance and rankings on track during and after the migration. Some common areas you need to address are: setting up redirects, cataloging metadata, and choosing the right SEO benchmarks.
Taking a Backup
CMS migrations can get tricky if you are not careful and even lead to partial or complete data loss. To minimize this risk, consider creating a staging website — a clone of your current website — that you can use to test any major changes without hampering your user experience or search engine performance.
Next, you should also take a complete backup of your website so that all content and elements on it remain safe. In case, your content gets impacted or something unexpected happens during the process, you can still restore your website to its last known state using the backup.
You can also utilize the OCM Toolkit, which can help you back up your content and metadata structures locally. Moreover, this toolkit can also help you facilitate smoother uploads into the chosen CMS platform using APIs for data transfer.
2. Setting Up the WordPress Environment
Once you have carried out all the steps in your pre-migration checklist, you can start setting up your new WordPress environment. Once you prepare your OCM website for migration, you can start thinking about transferring your content.
Getting this right is crucial in ensuring that your WordPress website performs as expected, upon finishing the migration. You can follow the below steps to ensure setting up your WordPress environment correctly.
Installing WordPress and Choosing a Reliable Hosting Provider
The process of setting up your WordPress environment starts with installing WordPress and a suitable hosting provider.
You can simplify this entire process by opting for managed hosting solutions like WordPress VIP Hosting, WPEngine or Kinsta. This helps you get optimal performance out of your website and more access to support. Such solutions tend to have your WordPress environment ready to go, further simplifying the process. Additionally, managed hosting solutions can also help you navigate the process of installing and managing your newly migrated website more seamlessly.
Even if you choose other hosting providers, you can install your WordPress environment in a few easy steps starting with downloading it from the official WordPress website.
WordPress.com Homepage
Following are the steps you must follow if your hosting provider does not offer a one-click installer when you want to download and install WordPress manually:
Visit the official WordPress website and download the latest version.
Use an FTP client to upload this downloaded version on the server or you can also do so with the help of the hosting control panel’s file manager.
Once done, you can extract all the files within the root directory
On the other hand, if you utilize a one-click installer provided by a managed host, all you need to do is navigate to your hosting control panel and look for the “WordPress Installer” or a similar option. Then, follow the prompts on your installer to automatically install WordPress.
Developing a Custom Theme And Configuring The Backend
When proceeding with a CMS migration, you can either retain the themes and features of your OCM website to your new WordPress website or create a new one. While it all depends on the goals you want to achieve, you can either choose a theme out of the WordPress Theme Library or develop a custom theme.
In most cases, it is a good idea to pick a theme that reflects the design of your current website to streamline the migration process. In other cases, companies might choose to develop a custom theme that supports your business goals and objectives more effectively.
Even editing your custom theme is fairly straightforward in WordPress, including all the necessary features and elements. After wrapping up this step, you can proceed to configure your website backend.
This includes setting up your SQL database, which will store all the content and features associated with your website. Here is the process you should follow:
Explore the control panel on your hosting provider’s dashboard and locate a database management tool like phpMyAdmin.
Install phpMyAdmin to your web server, and create a new database only if there is no existing database in that location
Next, proceed to create a new database and user, then update the access controls and permissions associated with all the stakeholders and users.
Alternatively, you can also use MySQL client instead of phpMyAdmin for creating and setting up a database for your WordPress website.
Installing Essential Plugins And Third-Party Integrations
Once you download and install WordPress, you will have a basic website at hand, but you can not unlock its complete potential without the right functionality. And the best part about choosing WordPress as your CMS is that you need the right plugins and integrations to extend your website’s functionality.
Prioritize the installation of essential plugins that can replicate the most crucial features from your legacy CMS, in your new WordPress website. These plugins will include plugins for security, SEO, and any other necessary functionality you need on your website.
3. Content Migration
The process of migrating content from Oracle Content Management (OCM) platform to WordPress involves several crucial steps. To ensure a smooth transition of your content assets, data, and metadata to your new website, you need to plan and execute the whole process carefully.
Exporting Content From OCM
Every successful migration starts with exporting content from the legacy CMS. You will select and download all the pertinent content from your OCM website to be transferred to your WordPress website.
The entire export process can be divided into two major sub-processes:
Preparing to Export Content from OCM
Before you can export your content from OCM and import it into WordPress, you will need to check all the content you took inventory of, as a precursor to the migration process. This includes cataloging all the various content types on your website including videos, images, and documents.
The next step is to ensure any dependencies between content items and document all of it to avoid any broken links after the migration. Check if there are any parent-child relationships between content so that they can be taken into consideration when the content is being transferred.
Exporting Your Content Repository
Once you have primed your content to be exported from OCM, you need to follow these steps to carry out the actual export process.
Step 1: Start by logging into your OCM website, and accessing the repositories page on your CMS dashboard.
OCM Dashboard
Step 2: Next, you will select the specific repositories and content items you want to transfer to the new CMS.
Step 3: Now initiate the actual export process by clicking on ‘Export Content’, and providing a name for the export job.
Step 4: Finally, select or create the destination folder in which all your exported content can be stored. You will also choose any additional options such as custom components or taxonomies, to be included in the migration.
Importing into WordPress Using Plugins
While there are other ways to import content into WordPress, one of the fastest and most effective ways is doing it using the plugins. The right plugins will help you streamline content content management and help you overcome any compatibility issues between your OCM and WordPress websites.
The plugins recommended for importing content into WordPress, are:
WP All Import
WordPress Importer
For this guide, we will look at the steps involved in importing content into WordPress using the WP All Import plugin. WP All Import plugin helps you import XML or CSV files seamlessly into WordPress. You can easily accomplish this by mapping fields from your imported file directly to the ones in your WordPress website.
All of these reasons make it easy for WP All Import to facilitate structured data migrations between CMSes in various formats. Here are the steps involved in importing content using the plugin:
Once downloaded, proceed to install the plugin to your WordPress website
Next, you can select the ‘All Import’ option and then the ‘New Import’ option to upload your imported CSV or XML file.
Next, you will map the content fields in your imported files, with the corresponding fields in your WordPress website.
Finally, proceed to run the import and upload the files on your server.
Double-Checking Whether The Transfer Was Accurate
While the process of exporting your content from your legacy OCM website and importing it into your WordPress account is challenging, it is nothing compared to the challenges you might face in case of a mishap. The transfer of data is only as challenging as the amount of complications involved in the process.
That said, it is important to have appropriate verification options and checks in place before you even initiate the content transfer. Once the transfer is completed, revisit all the content and metadata to verify its accuracy.
Organizing Content to Replicate, Restructure, or Revamp The Old Structure
Once the content is completely transferred to your WordPress website and database, all you have to do is sort and organize it based on appropriate parameters. Decluttering your content can help you reduce the risks associated with your migration, and make the process more efficient.
The best way to organize your website content is to divide all of it into the following three categories:
Replicating
Your OCM website might have had certain content blocks or items that have been performing consistently well on search engines. Or there might be valuable pieces of content that serve an important purpose (landing pages, for example.) that you want to retain in your new WordPress website.
These are content pieces that don’t need to be altered in any way and simply need to be replicated in your new WordPress website. As a result, you should sort these content pieces under the ‘Replicating’ category.
Restructuring
While some web pages don’t need to be changed at all, there may be others that require a few necessary tweaks and edits. Ensure that these content items don’t get mixed up with the others and are categorized clearly so that you know they are the ones that need more work from your end.
The best practice here is to mark the content that requires edits or restructuring so that you can handle them accordingly.
Revamping
While there will be a lot of content that only needs to be transferred and set into the new template, or needs slight restructuring, there will be content that is outdated or inaccurate. Your CMS migration is a great opportunity for you to take inventory of this content and refresh these items to perform better.
Remember that these are not the same as the content items you set aside for restructuring as the ones for revamping are ones that might need almost an entire overhaul.
4. Post-Migration Testing
By the time you reach this stage of the migration process, you are already done with the primary steps. You can now focus on testing out the newly migrated website to ensure that everything is working as expected, and resolving any potential challenges before they arise or hamper user experience.
Functional Testing
If you conducted comprehensive functional testing in the pre-migration phase, you may already have a document or record detailing the functionalities essential for your website and any additional ones required in the new website. Once you have fully migrated to the new CMS, and replicated and replaced functionalities in your WordPress website, you need to test them.
Carrying out experiments to test your website functionality ensures that you identify any improvement areas or potential challenges in advance. For these experiments, testers will execute the same test cases that were used in the legacy CMS on the new website. As a part of these tests, you will compare the old data with the new one, to determine and confirm whether functionalities work as planned.
The three key areas of focus while conducting functional testing after migration are:
Data Integrity: Ensure that all the data required for your website functionality to work smoothly have been migrated accurately, and are intact.
User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Test whether your functionality is able to engage end-users and whether it meets their needs and expectations.
Feature Functionality: Confirm that all the functionalities in your new WordPress website work as they did prior to migration, and that the new features work as intended.
Performance Testing
You have successfully transferred all the necessary data and features from your OCM website to your new WordPress website. However, none of that matters if your website performance is not at par with the expectations.
To ensure that your website performance meets user expectations, and is working towards achieving the goals you want to achieve through the WordPress migration, you need to invest time and resources for performance testing. Through these tests, you can assess whether your website performance has changed after the migration — positively or negatively.
As a part of your performance testing, you will also carry out load testing to ensure that the new and improved website can handle traffic spikes effectively, and can help you as your business scales up. Performance testing can also help you verify if your new website can support the old functionalities as effectively as the new ones. In addition to load testing, you must also conduct other kinds of tests post-migration, so that you can get a clearer picture of your website performance.
Some of the primary ones are:
Volume Testing: This test assesses the ability of your website to handle and smoothly manage large data volumes. Basically, you ensure that the website will not face issues even if the data volumes grow.
Stress Testing: This test entails pushing your website beyond its usual operational capacity to learn about its behavior in extreme conditions. Stress testing will also help you identify potential and actual breaking points so that you can fix them and ensure that your website can recover gracefully in case of failure.
Spike Testing: Your website is likely to experience traffic spikes from time to time. Spike testing entails increasing your website load significantly to assess how your website performs in that situation.
Mobile Responsiveness
The mobile-readiness and responsiveness of your website is an important area to focus on, migration or not. You need to ensure that your website works well on all kinds of mobile devices especially when you migrate to a new environment or platform. You should assess whether your users have a seamless experience on their mobile devices by implementing best practices for mobile responsiveness.
Here are some of the tests you want to consider implementing as part of your mobile-responsiveness testing:
Device Testing: To begin with, you must try accessing your website on different kinds of devices and across operating systems. This test will help you ensure that the layout and functionality of your website remain consistent across devices.
Cross-Browser Testing: Access your website on different web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, and Safari on mobile devices. Since your website could be rendered differently on different mobile browsers, you must conduct thorough testing.
Core Web Vitals Testing: You must evaluate key performance metrics also known as Core Web Vitals such as Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). The test will help you assess the responsiveness and loading performance of your website from users’ perspectives.
Implement Consistent Monitoring & Iterations
Once you have successfully migrated your website from OCM to WordPress, the only way to get the best out of your website is to consistently monitor its performance. You should implement mechanisms that will help you identify potential issues, make corrections wherever required, and implement necessary changes.
Then, you should keep tracking your website performance over time, to track its performance and any effect that your changes could have on it.
Wrapping Up
For an OCM to WordPress migration to be successful, you must carry out each step of the process meticulously and take measures to avoid mistakes whenever possible. Your CMS migration can be as simple or complicated as you want, but doing it all in-house can be challenging with limited resources. Instead, opt for an experienced agency that not only has expertise in conducting migrations but can also help you prepare for it and test the results more effectively.
Multidots is an experienced enterprise WordPress development agency and a WordPress VIP Gold Partner that can help you navigate your migration from start to finish. Contact us to partner with one of the most trusted and adept WordPress development companies, and leave the rest to us.
