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Fueled+10up Leads the Way in the Making of WordPress 6.8

Earlier this week, WordPress 6.8 was released, with a major focus on refinement and polish, including iterative improvements to block editing, website performance, and accessibility.

Once again, our team led the way in contributing to one of the internet’s largest open source projects, estimated to power 40% of websites. Twenty-four 10uppers contributed to WordPress 6.8 “Cecil”, with Jeff Paul as Release Coordinator, Joe McGill as Tech Lead, and Fabian Kaegy, Peter Wilson, and Mukesh Panchal as Noteworthy Contributors.

Other Fueled+10up contributors included Ajay Maurya, Ankit Gade, Ankit Gupta, Darin Kotter, Dharmesh Patel, Faisal Alvi, Harshal Kadu, Karthik Thayyil, Konstantinos Galanakis, Mohit Dadhich, Navneet Kaur, Rahul Prajapati, Severine Pozzo, Siddharth Thevaril, Sourabh Jain, Sumit Bagthariya, Thrijith Thankachan, Tyler Bailey, and Vikram Moparthy. We’d also like to recognize our partners at Google and Elementor for sponsoring some of our contributions during parts of this release cycle.

2025 ElasticPress Updates Deliver New & Improved WordPress Search Capabilities

Thorsten Ott on April 15

ElasticPress, our speedy and intelligent website search solution that brings Elasticsearch to WordPress, continues to evolve to support new use cases and improve usability for site owners and developers. With the release of ElasticPress 5.2, and the companion ElasticPress Labs 2.4 update, we’ve added highly sought after enhancements that make our WordPress search solution even more versatile for professional site developers, including enhanced support for a popular WordPress field management plugin, location based searching, and improvements for headless applications of WordPress.
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Ignite: A Sanity CMS Starter Kit for Content-Driven Marketing Sites

Taylor Lovett on April 11

In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, the most effective websites aren’t just online brochures—they are dynamic hubs for storytelling, engagement, and lead generation. Forward-thinking online marketers need websites and tools optimized for strategic audience growth and engagement.

At Fueled+10up, high-performing storytelling hubs for the enterprise are one of our most common engagement types, as we’ve helped clients like Salesforce build award-winning dedicated news and blog centers that drive results.

This led us to create Ignite for Sanity, a powerful website starter kit and template for enterprises that have adopted Sanity as a content management system (CMS). Ignite for Sanity is specifically engineered to support businesses whose digital marketing strategies include regularly publishing articles, news, blogs, and resources. Ignite is carefully designed from the ground up to enhance content visibility, audience interaction, and search engine performance.

Microsoft Research and Harvard School of Public Health Recognized in the 2025 Webby Awards

Jake Goldman on April 8

It’s web awards season, and once again, we’re thrilled to share 10up projects and clients recognized in the 29th Annual Webby Awards: Microsoft Research and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The Webby Awards honor excellence on the Internet, celebrating the most innovative and impactful websites, apps, and digital experiences.

Microsoft Research is an Honoree in the Websites and Mobile Sites – Business Blog/Website category. We’ve worked with Microsoft Research for a decade, most recently redesigning and building this Webby-recognized site and co-creating generative AI-powered experiences. Our most recent AI experience built in partnership with Microsoft’s team, enables researchers to rapidly identify papers and projects of interest and helps build meaningful relationships across research teams. We also provide enterprise-grade infrastructure support and optimization on Azure for these sites.

Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health has also been nominated for a Webby Award for Websites and Mobile Sites – School/University. We partnered with longtime collaborator Wide Eye, who expertly harnessed their creative agency’s focus on public sector and political work to lead design and content strategy, while our team spearheaded engineering and delivery, including in-browser refinement. You can vote in the People’s Choice Award for Harvard’s School of Public Health.
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How We’re Bringing Generative AI to WordPress, Without External Cloud APIs

Darin Kotter on March 27

Following our post covering the latest innovations with ClassifAI—our AI-powered WordPress plugin—I’ve published an article on LinkedIn exploring how self-hosted AI models can open up new possibilities for WordPress-powered websites.

Here’s an excerpt from the full article:

I realized that integrating Ollama into our AI plugin ClassifAI could unlock something special: bringing the power of generative AI to WordPress on our terms. No cloud fees, no data leaving the site – just WordPress and AI working together in a more private, flexible way.

If you’re interested in how we built this integration, and what this could suggest about the future of AI for open source platforms like WordPress, you can read the full article on LinkedIn.

Preparing for EAA: Streamline Compliance with PDF Accessibility Checker by Fueled+10up

Hugo Solar on March 25

The European Accessibility Act (EAA), set to take effect on June 28, 2025, is a significant step toward digital inclusivity, requiring websites and digital documents—including PDFs—to meet strict accessibility standards. However, auditing PDFs for compliance at scale is no small feat, especially for enterprises and other organizations managing hundreds or thousands of files across multiple domains.

To help our clients address this challenge, we developed the PDF Accessibility Checker—a handful of scripts that integrate with the WordPress command line interface (CLI), Adobe’s PDF Accessibility Checker API, and Google Sheets to automate PDF accessibility audits. I’m pleased to share that we’ve now open sourced this tool.

Building Monitor: The Tech Behind Our Website Health Monitoring Tool

Taylor Lovett on March 21

Following up on my post introducing Monitor, I’ve published an article on LinkedIn that digs into some of the bigger technical and data management decisions our team made while architecting the site monitoring platform we built to reliably and efficiently monitor our clients’ websites.

Here’s the opening from the full article:

Building Monitor, our website health monitoring tool, was a fulfilling challenge that required thoughtful engineering choices under real-world constraints. As technical leaders in enterprise caliber CMS and product development, we know that picking the proper CMS backbone, UI framework, and data strategy can make or break a project. In the case of Monitor – a platform watching hundreds of websites – we had to carefully balance scalability, flexibility, and performance at every layer.

I wanted to share how and why we chose our tech stack, including Payload CMS as the backend, Google’s Material UI for the front-end, and share a little about our data polling and management approach, which keeps Monitor timely and efficient.

If you’re interested in how and why we chose the architecture and platforms behind Monitor—or just love a good technical deep dive—you can read the full article on LinkedIn.

ClassifAI Updates Roundup: A More Powerful, Flexible AI Toolkit for WordPress

Jeff Paul on March 20

Over the past year, ClassifAI has introduced major enhancements that make it even more powerful, user-friendly, and flexible for content creators and publishers. From a redesigned setup experience to new AI-powered content tools, these updates focus on making AI more accessible, customizable, and privacy-conscious for publishers, enterprises, and other WordPress power users.

Here’s a roundup of the most notable new features and improvements.

Introducing Monitor by Fueled+10up: Real-Time Tracking of Key Site Health Vitals

Taylor Lovett on March 13

At Fueled+10up, we don’t just build enterprise-grade digital experiences—we ensure they operate at peak performance, every day. As we’ve scaled, supporting the long-term health of hundreds of websites efficiently and consistently has become increasingly complex. Every site needs to be fast, accessible, up-to-date, and secure—but efficiently monitoring these key health vitals across different platforms, environments, and teams was increasingly a challenge.

That’s why we built Monitor: a unified solution that simplifies site health tracking, bringing critical performance, accessibility, security, and platform vitals into a single, purpose-built system. Instead of bouncing between generic monitoring tools or manually checking for updates, our teams—and our clients—get a unified and clear view of a site’s status, with proactive alerts and an easy-to-access dashboard.

By developing our own solution, we’ve reduced inefficiencies, lowered reliance on third-party tools, and ensured that our monitoring is tailored to our standards, our platforms, and our clients’ expectations. More importantly, clients benefit from transparency—they can check in on their site’s key vitals at any time, with a system that ensures every site receives the same high standard of oversight, no matter what.

Salesforce’s Salesblazer Wins Project of the Year

Elena Bargo on November 20, 2024

At the 2024 Content Marketing Awards, Salesforce’s Salesblazer was awarded Project of the Year—a huge honor for the initiative that launched in 2023. Salesblazer is a community where sales professionals share ideas, learn new skills, network, and advance their careers. The Salesblazer hub — one of several Salesblazer channels — is where sales professionals can find the latest sales-related content, product information, and events.

10up built the Salesblazer Hub within Salesforce.com, in partnership with the Salesforce Blog and Salesblazer teams. It is highly scalable and the content is easily managed and edited by non-technical Salesforce staff. Similar hubs can be created for other target audiences.

Discover all of the 2024 Content Marketing Awards winners and be sure to check out Salesblazer for the latest sales insights.