Case Study: Wheaton College, Massachusetts achieves digital transformation to a high-performance marketing website with Pantheon

Massachusetts’ Wheaton College Launches Digital Transformation and Fine-Tunes Marketing Engine

Wheaton College, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts with about 1,700 students, faced a decade-old, internal-facing website on legacy infrastructure that suffered frequent outages and couldn’t support modern digital recruiting. With a very lean web team, the college needed a simple, reliable development environment that would enable effective marketing without adding headcount.

Wheaton replatformed to WordPress on Pantheon’s WebOps stack—using tools like Autopilot, Multidev, Dev‑Test‑Live, Advanced Global CDN and Terminus—which let a one‑person development team dramatically increase productivity and shift focus from maintenance to marketing. The result was a fast, secure, highly available marketing site that improved mobile user experience and conversions, supported personalization, and stayed stable under a record two million monthly hits.

Wheaton College, Massachusetts

Michael McGlynn

Former Associate Director Of Web & Interactive