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Check out our Call for Sponsors post for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!
Thanks to the following companies and people for sponsoring WordCamp! WordCamp Boston would not be possible without support from these great folks.
Platinum
Jetpack
Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites. This single plugin enables Photon (a global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple-site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look and feel of your site without installing other tools. More information can be found at jetpack.com.
Bluehost
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the fastest growing eCommerce software/platform, powering over 30% of all eCommerce stores with over 1 million active installations. It is is built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, making it the obvious eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers over 25% of all websites on the internet.
With WooCommerce you can start with all the basic tools that any small business would need to start selling online, including product setup, payments, shipping options, and sales reports and as your business grows choose from over 300 premium add-ons available including additional payment processors, shipping methods, inventory systems and marketing tools anyone to sell anything, anywhere from real products and digital downloads to subscriptions, content and even your time.
In July 2015, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month and also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. We look forward to growing WooCommerce to achieve even greater things together with Automattic.
SiteLock
Currently protecting more than one million WordPress sites, SiteLock delivers a patented 360-degree website security solution to find, fix and prevent malware and other threats from affecting websites and their visitors. Services include malware scanning and vulnerability detection, automatic malware removal, an advanced web application firewall (WAF), PCI compliance and website acceleration powered by a global CDN. SiteLock provides phone support, available 24/7/365.
Oomph, Inc.
Flywheel
Flywheel is a delightful platform that empowers designers, developers, and digital agencies to focus on what they do best — building beautiful, functional sites for their clients. We make it a breeze to create and develop WordPress sites, handle hosting, manage projects, and ultimately scale your business.
WP Engine
WP Engine powers amazing digital experiences for websites or applications built on WordPress. The company’s premium managed hosting platform provides the performance, reliability and security required by the biggest brands in the world, while remaining affordable and intuitive enough for smaller businesses and individuals. Companies large and small rely on WP Engine’s award-winning customer service team that specializes in quickly solving technical problems, and creating a world-class customer experience. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has offices in San Francisco, California, San Antonio, Texas, and London, England.
PressTigers
The Tigers focus on making WordPress websites that shine; developing products such as plugins, extensions and themes for all WordPress site solutions like the revolutionary Simple Job Board.
They specialize in providing extensive WordPress services to their clients, as well as support for the WordPress community. From engaging productively with WordPress users to refining their process with each milestone PressTigers believes in more than just the bare necessities. They aim to exceed the highest level of development standards and raise the bar for the industry.
Rochen
Founded in 2003 and today providing WordPress hosting for thousands of sites, Rochen’s mission is to build innovative hosting solutions that are easy to use and provide the highest levels of performance, security and reliability. Rochen provides hosting solutions for a range of customers, their Premium Web Hosting (PWH) offering is designed for smaller WordPress sites and their Managed Cloud Servers (MCS) can scale to handle tens of millions of monthly page views.
All of Rochen’s solutions are built on top of their own fully owned and managed infrastructure and benefit from features like built-in high availability with automatic server failover, managed backups and 24/7 technical support. Rochen uses the latest hardware and software technologies and offers many features beneficial to WordPress users such as PHP 7, LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server, WP-CLI, Web Application Firewall Protection (WAF) for WordPress, free SSL certificates for all sites through the LetsEncrypt project and much more.
For more information on Rochen’s hosting solutions for WordPress, visit: www.rochen.com
FlexiDB Limited
FlexiDB is a tool for creating databases graphically, then deploying to websites and apps. It’s been designed with WordPress in mind. Our aim is to make creating a database as easy as adding post or page. There is a plugin for WordPress that lets users drag and drop data widgets on to the page. WordPress was originally a blogging tool, before evolving into a CMS. With FlexiDB you can use WordPress to build custom database sites, or DaaS’s to give them their trendy name. FlexiDB also has an app editor that produces PhoneGap code, so users can create an app that interacts with the same FlexiDB database.
See http://flexidb.com/ for more details
BoldGrid
BoldGrid is a website builder powered by WordPress. It is a free set of WordPress plugins, themes, and other content that allows site creation and management similar to non-WordPress website builders. By placing WordPress more in line with DIY site builder solutions on the market, our mission is not only to make WordPress more accessible and easy for beginners to utilize, but also automate and streamline typical WordPress tasks to provide a fast, creator-friendly platform that even web professionals will appreciate.
Experience WordPress as a website builder, including: free pre-built themes, drag and drop editing, integrated image banks, simplified photo editing, built-in staging, automated backups, and so much more.
BoldGrid will have you creating professional looking WordPress sites in minutes!
Gold
GoDaddy
GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.
Pantheon
The website management platform for Drupal & WordPress, Pantheon provides web teams with the hosting, cloud-based developer tools, and scalable infrastructure needed to run awesome websites. Serving billions of pageviews a month for over 100,000 websites, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security or performance. It’s free in development. Create your free account now!
Sucuri Inc.
Cyber security is a mile wide, and a mile deep. Hacked websites are only becoming more common as global hacker communities continue to grow, share their evil tools, and automate attacks using bots. You might never know if your website was vulnerable, or if the attacker took steps to hide their tracks. It’s enough to drive a webmaster crazy. How do you keep up?
At Sucuri, our labs are dedicated to researching and thwarting the latest and emerging threats to websites like yours. Our team handles your website security needs, so that you can get back to what you’re best at: running your online presence. Passion is at the heart of everything we do, and we cut through the noise to provide you with complete security solutions. Our services are built around three defining principles – People. Process. Technology – the three founding elements of information security.
Team up with Sucuri and gain the peace you are looking for with your website security. We secure websites, so you don’t have to.
Silver
WPML
WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 500,000 commercial websites from all over the world.
More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org
We are looking for talent. If you are a smart programmer you are welcome to contact us here: http://wpml.org/home/were-hiring/.
DreamHost
DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites and apps hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of Web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects, and the cloud computing service DreamCompute. More information can be found at http://dreamhost.com.
Plesk
Plesk simplifies web management activities to align with the way infrastructure is used today for hosting websites and web applications. A widely used web management solution, Plesk provides everything a web professional needs to set up a website quickly and securely – including a WordPress Toolkit, an easy-to-navigate control panel, server level automation, supportability tools, and complete protection with our server-to-site security core.
iThemes Sync
Manage updates (and more!) for your WordPress sites all in one place.
Backup Buddy
The original WordPress backup plugin to backup, restore & move WordPress.
A2 Hosting
Since 2003, A2 Hosting has specialized in linux-based, developer-friendly hosting. We cater to the WordPress community by offering robust servers and hosting accounts at an affordable cost. We back up our hosting with 24/7 support available by phone, ticket, or live chat.
A2 is active in the WordPress community – we dedicate a percentage of our development time to WordPress as part of the Five for the Future initiative, and we are active in many WordCamps. Our in-house Application Optimizer, Ben Cool is also an organizer of the Ann Arbor WordCamp, and speaks at many other WordCamps across the country.
Small Business
Yoast
At Yoast, we optimize websites in a holistic way. Not just one aspect of websites, but every aspect. Making sites more usable, easier to navigate, faster and more reliable. In other words: we make websites work. For the owner ánd the visitor. The added bonus is that if you do all that right, a website becomes easier to find as well.
With over 4 million active installs Yoast SEO is the most popular SEO plugins around. And there’s more!
To help people create awesome websites we offer: plugins that make optimizing and analyzing websites easy as pie; website reviews that provide an in-depth analysis and lots of practical tips; online courses and eBooks that give people the skills and the knowledge to start improving their own site.
Facebook: facebook.com/yoast
Twitter: twitter.com/yoast
WP Email Delivery
WP Email Delivery, from the creators of SendPress, is a cloud service designed to take away the pain of sending email through your WordPress hosting provider. If you’ve ever been aggravated that you did not receive an email from your WordPress site because something was misconfigured or blocked by your hosting provider, WP Email Delivery is exactly what you need. Simply activate the plugin and enter your API key and all WordPress emails will be delivered through us.
We are a drop-in replacement for all email sent with wp_mail, which means we work with virtually every plugin and configuration available, including Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Easy Digital Downloads, Woo Commerce, and of course SendPress.
Let’s take a quick look at some of the core features of WP Email Delivery:
Integrates directly with all major WordPress e-Commerce and Membership plugins
Efficiently replaces wp_mail() to send emails via our API
Offers a complete management area with WordPress
Works out of the box on all hosting companies, even those with aggressive firewalls and port blocking
Extensive reporting on referrals, affiliates, and visits
Supports SPF and DKIM signing (requires domain verification).
Try us out today for free with our 50 emails per month.
Torque Magazine
FixMyWP
FixMyWP.com offers WordPress Maintenance Services along with ala cartE WordPress Fixes. We also love helping people to clean their hacked WordPress sites where we recover and update your WordPress Site in 24 hours or less.
CSSIgniter LLC
CSSIgniter is a small remote team of designers & WordPress developers. We provide beautiful WordPress themes to small web design / development agencies, freelancers and small business owners around the world. We make sure that there aren’t any confusing parts in our themes so users can concentrate on what really matters, their content. People really love us for our technical support too.
GoWP
Ndevr
Ndevr is highly experienced WordPress development company delivering exceptional results to our clients. We provide solution architecture for the various digital properties across your organization and integrating those systems to maximize the efficiency of your company.
We accomplish this through our several areas of expertise:
- Performance: from audits to tuning systems, our infrastructure and front-end experts can help.
- Development Leads: each engineer leads with over 15 years of expertise in building high traffic digital properties.
- Technical Strategy: our extensive experience implementing solutions helps to advise during those tough decisions.
- Web Application Development: using best practices and the latest tools we can build custom software applications to solve problems unique to your business.
And More.
Consultant
Elegant Marketplace
In Kind
TRB Design, Inc
TRB Design offers WordPress maintenance & development for you or your clients. With all the important things you need to do for your business, why not leave the technical part of maintaining your website to us. We’ll take care of the updates, security, backups, monitor your site and more.
We’ve Specialized in WordPress Websites and Development Since 2006.
Web marketing and video for the web.
3Thought
We specialize in graphic design, websites and rebranding. – See more
Headquartered in historic Plymouth Massachusetts, 3thought is a partnership of co-founders Shea Baker and Matt Ulvila. Their talented team of designers and developers offer their clients diverse viewpoints across a variety of mediums. 3thought specializes in branding, rebranding, graphic design, web design, logos, collateral systems, brochures, fliers, postcards, catalogs, posters, stationery, environmental graphics, websites and more.
Boston University
Sticker Giant
Individual Sponsors
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Bob Sansone (Heartland)@Heartland_Bobheartlandpaymentsystems.com
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Brian Johnson@bkjproductionsbkjproductions.com
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Eileen Lonergan@eileenlonerganelegantmarketplace.com
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Josh Fialkoff@joshfialkoffforwardjump.com
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Linda Holinerlholinerdesigns.com
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Peggi Tehan@margaretsfollymargaretsfolly.com
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Trace Meek@tracemeektracemeek.com