Case Study: Maine Today achieves faster performance and reliable uptime with Pantheon

How the media company migrated three WordPress sites in four months

Maine Today Media, Maine’s largest media outlet with more than 1.2 million unique monthly visitors, needed to modernize and consolidate three high-profile sites to support an increasingly agile newsroom. Legacy performance issues and outages during traffic spikes threatened readership and made it difficult to scale mobile engagement and daily editorial workflows.

They hired agency 10up and migrated all three sites to WordPress on Pantheon in four months, using identical dev/test/live environments, WP-CLI support, and integrations with their print editorial system. The relaunch was smooth: pages load faster, traffic spikes are handled without outages, mobile engagement increased, the team can iterate quickly on features and content, and PressHerald.com was voted Maine’s best news website.

Maine Today

Matt Fulton

Director of Digital Services, Maine Today