Enterprise WordPress
Our core platform, scaled

Enterprise
WordPress

Hardened, scaled and governed for a large regulated group.

Enterprise WordPress for large, multi-market pharmaceutical groups: hardening, scaling and governance layered on top of the platform, built to hold at a scale most standard WordPress builds are never asked to handle.

The technology
What is included

What enterprise WordPress
actually adds

What it involves

WordPress at enterprise scale is a different engineering problem from a single-market site: infrastructure sized for real traffic and content volume, governance across many editors and markets, and security hardening appropriate to what a group-level platform holds.

What we deliver

Infrastructure architecture for scale and reliability, security hardening appropriate to enterprise risk, governance and role structure across many editors, and integration with the enterprise systems a large group already runs.

Scoped to what we can secure well

We focus our hardening effort on the WordPress platform itself and its direct integrations — the part of your stack we can actually secure end to end — rather than spreading thin across enterprise IT infrastructure that already has its own owners.

case studies

Clients we've worked with

Real projects for industrial and pharmaceutical companies.
Enterprise track record
Track record

What our enterprise WordPress
work has scaled to

The scale our enterprise WordPress work has operated at.

+10
years building for regulated industries
+200
organisations have trusted Code
+1.500
documents migrated with their access permissions intact
+160
scientific papers in a single managed repository
Enterprise WordPress by requirement
Who needs it

What enterprise WordPress
has to hold by group type

The scaling requirement differs by how the group is structured. Enterprise WordPress starts there.

Enterprise process
Four stages

How we build enterprise
WordPress

Four stages. Enterprise WordPress is engineered for scale, security and governance together.

ARCHITECTURE
01
01

Infrastructure sized for real scale

We design infrastructure for the actual traffic, content volume and integration load the platform will carry, not a default hosting tier.

What we design

Hosting and caching architecture dimensioned against your actual traffic and content volume, not a starter tier assumption. Database scaling planned for the number of markets and editors on the platform, and a content delivery setup that keeps pages fast in every region you operate.

Result

A platform that holds up under real enterprise load — concurrent editors, high traffic spikes, large media libraries — rather than one that only performs well in a clean staging environment with a handful of test pages.

HARDENING
02
02

Security appropriate to enterprise risk

We harden the platform to a standard appropriate for a group-level asset, beyond what a single-market site would typically require.

What we implement

Access controls that limit who can do what across a platform with many editors and integrations. Continuous monitoring for anomalous activity, and security configuration set to the standard your group's security function expects from a corporate asset, not the defaults of a single-market brochure site.

Result

A platform your enterprise security function can review and stand behind, with documented controls rather than assurances. That matters when the site sits inside a broader corporate risk assessment and someone eventually asks to see the evidence.

GOVERNANCE
03
03

Roles and structure across many editors

We build role and permission structures that hold across a large number of editors and markets, without collapsing into either chaos or excessive restriction.

What we build

Multi-tier role structures that separate global administrators, market-level editors and local contributors, so permissions scale with the number of people touching the platform. Governance rules define what each tier can change independently and what needs central sign-off — see website governance for the broader framework this typically sits within.

Result

A platform that stays visually and structurally coherent even with dozens of editors across multiple markets, because the roles and rules prevent local changes from drifting away from the group standard over time.

INTEGRATION
04
04

Connected to the enterprise systems you already run

We integrate with existing enterprise identity, security and data systems, so the WordPress platform operates as part of your IT landscape, not apart from it.

What we integrate

Single sign-on against your existing identity provider, so access follows the same rules as the rest of your IT estate. Security monitoring feeding into your existing tooling, and data connections to the enterprise systems — CRM, DAM, analytics — the platform needs to talk to.

Result

A platform your IT function recognises as properly integrated rather than a parallel system it has to manage separately, which matters for audits, incident response and simply knowing who has access to what.

Enterprise WordPress FAQ

Enterprise WordPress questions

What comes up when scoping WordPress at enterprise scale.

How is this different from standard WordPress?

The difference is scale, not the underlying software. Enterprise WordPress means infrastructure, security and governance engineered for the traffic, content volume and number of editors a group-level platform carries, including load-balanced hosting, staged deployment workflows and role-based permissions, beyond what a standard single-site build needs to address. The core platform is the same; what surrounds it is not.

Can this integrate with our enterprise SSO?

Yes — see SSO and HCP identity for how we handle single sign-on and identity integration specifically. The integration typically connects to your existing identity provider, whether that is Azure AD, Okta or a similar system, so editors and administrators authenticate the same way they do across your other enterprise tools rather than maintaining a separate WordPress login.

Does our IT security team need to approve this?

Usually, and that involvement is welcome rather than an obstacle. We work directly with your security function during the build to meet whatever standard they require, covering penetration testing, hosting compliance and access controls, rather than presenting a finished platform for after-the-fact approval that risks a rebuild if it falls short of their requirements.

Is this the same as WordPress Multisite?

Related but distinct. See WordPress Multisite for the specific architecture of running several sites from one installation, which is one option within a broader enterprise build rather than a synonym for it. An enterprise build might use Multisite, separate installations, or a mix, depending on how similar the markets or brands are.

Related technology we work with

Other technology we work with

Enterprise WordPress connects closely with these related technology pages.

Enterprise WordPress

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