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ShareAmerica

The U.S. Department of State’s global storytelling platform on WordPress VIP

InfoStride led the digital infrastructure modernization for ShareAmerica, the U.S. Department of State’s flagship storytelling platform for international public diplomacy. The initiative migrated a legacy multi-site hosting setup to a FedRAMP-ready WordPress VIP environment built for global CDN delivery, high-concurrency uptime, multilingual publishing and strict media integrity.

ShareAmerica

Client

U.S. Department of State

Platform

WordPress VIP Enterprise

Migrated from

Legacy On-Premise Hosting

Scope

Global public diplomacy

100%

FedRAMP & Security SLA

Compliant hosting for global public diplomacy.

Thousands

Archival assets restored

Images and stories preserved for international reach.

0

Downtime during cutover

High-availability migration to enterprise cloud.

Key challenges

  • Migrating high-traffic international diplomacy assets under strict federal compliance guidelines.
  • Ensuring global content availability across localized regional translations with zero latency.
  • Hardening security SLAs against cyber threats while maintaining open public access.
  • Preserving thousands of archival diplomatic stories, high-resolution media, and metadata.
  • Managing multi-region CDN caching and content distribution for high-concurrency spikes.
  • Modernizing legacy editorial publishing workflows for distributed public diplomacy teams.
  • Maintaining multi-language editorial workflow synchronization during high-concurrency press events.

The InfoStride solution

  1. Federal security and compliance audit
    Conducted security and accessibility evaluations to meet FedRAMP and Section 508 standards.
  2. WordPress VIP cloud migration
    Migrated media repositories and content databases to enterprise WordPress VIP hosting.
  3. Global CDN & performance tuning
    Implemented global edge caching to serve international audiences instantly.
  4. Multi-language pipeline architecture
    Built localized publishing workflows for foreign audience distribution.
  5. Media & asset integrity restoration
    Restored archival imagery, metadata, and taxonomy links across legacy stories.
  6. Role-based editorial governance
    Enforced strict role-based access control and automated audit logging.
  7. Automated CI/CD & deployment validation
    Established GitHub Actions deployment pipelines for safe production releases.

Outcomes

What ShareAmerica has now

  1. Thousands of diplomatic news items and media assets migrated seamlessly.
  2. Global performance improved across all regional translation portals.
  3. Zero editorial downtime achieved during global platform cutover.
  4. Enhanced multi-region CDN delivery providing instant response times worldwide.
  5. Streamlined publishing workflows for global Department of State editorial teams.
  6. Long-term post-launch support and security SLA monitoring established.

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