WordPress powers nearly half the web. Even so, proving you know your way around its core architecture has historically been a bit of a trust fall. We are fixing that.
Kryterion and Automattic have joined forces to launch the Advanced Professional WordPress Developer certification. This program officially arrived on March 18, 2026. It gives developers, agencies, and hiring teams a standardized way to measure expertise at an enterprise level.
The certification covers eight critical domains. These include core architecture, security, and disaster recovery. Angela Street, the Chief Customer Success Officer at Kryterion, noted that this partnership empowers developers with credentials that reflect their real world skills. By combining our certification expertise with the reach of Automattic, we help businesses thrive online.
This collaboration uses the Webassessor platform to deliver secure exams. Our system provides dual camera proctoring and expert psychometric support to keep the testing environment fair and rigorous. With more employers moving away from traditional degrees, this new credential provides the structural proof of capability that the WordPress ecosystem has needed for a long time.
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