The missions of the WordPress and AMP open source projects are very well aligned.
Project Update: Official AMP Plugin for WordPress
The missions of the WordPress and AMP open source projects are very well aligned. AMP, a growth project at the OpenJS Foundation, seeks to democratize performance and the building of great page experiences, which is at the core of WordPress’ goal of democratizing web publishing.
Today the AMP team is very excited to release v2.0 of the Official AMP Plugin for WordPress! Lots of work went into this release, and it is loaded with many improvements and new capabilities in the areas of usability, performance, and flexibility. Read on to learn more, or check out the official AMP Blog for the full release notes.
AMP brings “performance-as-a-service” to WordPress, providing out-of-the-box solutions, a wide range of coding and performance best practices, always up-to-date access to the latest web platform capabilities, and effective control mechanisms (e.g. guard rails) to enable consistently good performance. AMP’s capabilities, and the guard rails it provides allow WordPress creators to take advantage of the openness and flexibility of WordPress while minimizing the amount of resources needed to be invested in developing and maintaining sites that perform consistently well.
The Official AMP Plugin for WordPress is developed and maintained by AMP project contributors to bring the pillars of AMP content publishing at the fingertips of WordPress users, by:
To learn more about the AMP in WordPress, please check the release post on the official AMP Project Blog. If you haven’t tried it already, download the plugin today and get started on the path of consistently great performance for your WordPress site! And, if you are interested in becoming a contributor to the AMP Plugin for WordPress, you can engage with us in the AMP plugin github repository.