Case Study: Texas A&M AgriLife achieves hassle-free management of hundreds of sites with WP Engine Multisite

Texas A&M AgriLife Powers Environment with WP Engine Multisite

Texas A&M AgriLife, which supports five agencies within the Texas A&M University System, manages hundreds of distinct websites for extension services, departments, 4‑H and more. Their previous proprietary CMS was hard to use, bandwidth‑heavy, and required in‑house WordPress expertise that the IT team didn’t have, making it impractical to build and maintain the many unique sites internal clients wanted.

In late 2011 AgriLife migrated its multisite installs to WP Engine and now hosts roughly 1,000 sites across several multisite networks. WP Engine’s managed multisite lets AgriLife offer pre‑vetted themes and plugins, centralized administration and authentication, faster performance, easy backups and CDN/SSL options—enabling same‑day site launches, simpler user management and significant cost and time savings versus maintaining in‑house servers.

Texas A&M AgriLife

Travis Ward

Web Production Manager