Approximately three years ago we set out to solve the challenge of enabling full AMP content publishing in WordPress with the goal of making it easy for WordPress site owners to traverse frictionless paths towards successful content publishing on the WordPress platform. Fast forward to today, and here we are, very excited to announce the v2.0 release of the official AMP Plugin for WordPress! In this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of the AMP for WordPress Plugin as well as delve into some of the highlights of this major release.
In 2015, the mobile web was not in a good place. An analysis of more than 10,000 mobile web domains showed that the average load time for mobile sites was 19 seconds over 3G connections. As a result, new proprietary mobile web formats arose as companies that distributed content looked for new ways to keep their products compelling and asked publishers to use them.