WordCamp Boston can’t happen without the help of our sponsors. These folks stepped up and sponsored at our highest tier, Platinum. Be sure to say hi and thank them this weekend!
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!
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
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
PressTigers
Since they first came together, 3 years ago, the PressTigers team has developed into a group of enthusiasts who excel at all things WordPress.
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.
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.
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.
Oomph
Oomph is a world-class digital agency located in Providence, Rhode Island. We combine the exceptional capabilities of our strategists, designers, and engineers to make insanely high-value and impactful digital experiences for our clients. Oomph’s client list includes nonprofit organizations such as The United Way, New England Journal of Medicine, and Ariadne Labs. Oomph also works with health and wellness clients such as Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Lifespan, and Zumba Fitness as well as everyday brands like NBC Universal, Spotify, Leica Geosystems, and Whole Foods Market.
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.
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 ofWordPress.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.
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.
It was a great weekend – the presence of the vendors was quite helpful to a newbie like myself, who is recovering from years with Joomla and looking to reenter to CMS game.