2018 Sponsors
WordCamps wouldn’t be possible without the generous donations from our sponsors. We appreciate every single sponsor who has helped make this year’s WordCamp a reality.
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WooCommerce
28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.
- 3+ million active installations
- 34+ million downloads
- 450+ extensions to add functionality
Whether you’re selling a few handcrafted items to a niche market, taking an existing business online, or going global with an enterprise level eCommerce business – WooCommerce will get you set up and selling fast and scale securely as you grow. Plus your content will be forever yours and customizable down to the finest button color.
Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com.
Jetpack
Transform how you work with your WordPress sites and rest easy knowing they’re always firing on all cylinders. Jetpack connects your site to the global services, community, and support provided by WordPress.com so you can focus on the stuff that matters.
Jetpack automatically shields your site from the unwanted attention of spammers, hackers, and malware, while real-time sync and backup means you don’t have to worry about data loss. Straightforward traffic-building tools help you attract the attention of readers and search engines. Pages and videos are delivered at high speed from a global, ad-free content delivery network.
With Jetpack’s Affiliate program you can earn 20% for every sale of Jetpack to your customers and clients. And with unlimited referrals, the sky’s the limit! Refer as many clients and contacts as you can, and get paid for every sale you generate.
Make your site work for you. Get your Jetpack today 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.
SiteLock
Currently protecting 12 million websites daily with over 4 million of those powered by WordPress, 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 automatic malware scanning and removal, an advanced web application firewall, static application security testing, PCI compliance and website acceleration powered by a global CDN. SiteLock also offers phone, email and chat support, 24/7/365. With SiteLock, you can focus on what’s most important—your business, your passion, your word.
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!
Host Duplex
Host Duplex is a managed cloud hosting provider with our core emphases on WordPress and XenForo. There’s a reason the largest WordPress blogs and XenForo forums come to Host Duplex. Sites like MacRumors.com trust us for our scalability, security, and performance enhancements. If you have just a few dozen posts, or tens of millions of posts, our platform provides you with the tools to succeed. With an average response time of 9 minutes to support tickets, our unparalleled service commitment ensures our clients receive the best security and performance alongside perpetually excellent customer service.
With our built-in Web Application Firewall, performance caching enhancements, and pure SSD hardware, you know you’re getting the best performance and security.
We were built from the ground up with the client in mind. As a proudly debt-free provider, we carefully plan and choose all our hardware, down to the very drive and brand of memory in every server. We exclusively run all our production equipment on Dell servers and fully own and operate all our servers and network equipment. Host Duplex is a multi-homed network provider, and we operate our own BGP network (AS54555) with servers housed in carrier neutral facilities that utilize multiple network carriers.
Read more at https://www.hostduplex.com
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DreamHost
Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers worldwide bring their dreams to life on the Internet. A leader in Managed WordPress hosting, over 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. Supporting the open source community with dedicated resources and a passionate team, DreamHost believes in the power of the Open Web and the people that make it happen. Learn more at DreamHost.com.
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!
GoDaddy
GoDaddy Pro is a free membership program for web developers, designers & agencies. It offers exclusive tools to help onboard, manage and maintain multiple clients and their sites fast and easy. With GoDaddy Pro tools, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage their products from a single dashboard. Additionally, your membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support and rewards for recommending GoDaddy to your clients.
You can use GoDaddy Pro with all of GoDaddy’s newly refreshed hosting products, including Managed WordPress, cPanel shared hosting, our brand new cloud product, and our virtual and dedicated solutions.
And, always get the best price on GoDaddy products with your “30% off list price” member benefit.
Learn more about GoDaddy Pro.
Give – WordPress Donation Plugin
Give is proud to sponsor WordCamp San Diego 2018. We are based in San Diego, California and we believe it’s important to promote WordPress in our hometown. Give is the most flexible, robust, and easy to use WordPress plugin for accepting donations directly on your website. Upon activation, Give provides you with powerful fundraising features for your Cause.
Simple and Pain Free Giving
Keep donors on your website without them bouncing to a third-party website or platform. The donation plugin works great, directly in WordPress.
Recurring Donations
Accepting recurring donations has never been easier or more powerful. This Give Add-on allows you to create even more powerful donation forms with support for daily, weekly, monthly, and annual subscriptions. You can also customize the number of times you would like to run the subscription, for example “Give $20 a Month for a Year”, or give the donor the choice whether or not make their donation recurring or one-time
Zero Commission Charges
Concentrate on your Cause, and not the cost. We earn our income by selling Add-ons and not from donor giving; period.
Easy to Customize and Enhance
Give is built by WordImpress. Our plugins are intuitive, actively supported, and well documented. Find out more about us.
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 and 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 plugin 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
Liquid Web
Liquid Web, a managed web hosting company, offers a wide array of hosting solutions, including VPS, cloud, dedicated, and shared hosting plans. WordPress users will find our fully managed hosting solutions, built on powerful and flexible servers, ideal for hosting WordPress sites of all sizes. In addition, all of our fully-managed solutions come backed by our industry-leading, 24/7/365, on-site Heroic Support®.
Our Heroic Promise features a comprehensive SLA with 59 second phone and live chat responses, 30 minute helpdesk responses, 30 minute hardware replacement, and 100% power and network uptime guarantees. With wholly-owned, state-of-the-art data centers in Michigan, Arizona, and Amsterdam, we provide true global reach and geographic redundancy. Whether your hosting needs are big or small, managed or unmanaged, shared, VPS, or cloud … Liquid Web is the perfect match.
TraitWare
TraitWare is a Simple Secure login manager. TraitWare for WordPress offers a easy to install plugin that eliminates username password based logins. The authentication process is tokenized and transparent to the user. This eliminates the need for creating or remembering a username or password to login ever again for WordPress dashboards.
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Qualpay
Qualpay provides a modern REST API based payments platform, paired with a merchant account, that is easily adaptable to the unique needs of your business. Store Builders, Developers and ISV’s can join our Affiliate Partner Program and provide value to your customers while enjoying a competitive revenue share.
We help merchants find the right pricing that is best for their business by offering either the typical fixed-rate market pricing or a variety of options including interchange pass-through. In 24 hours we can provide a cost savings analysis that can usually save a merchant over 30% off their processing costs.
Use our free WooCommerce extension or create your own and support Embedded Fields, Payment Gateway and Checkout or refer our ready-to-use Virtual Terminal, Customer Vault, Recurring Billing and Account Updater. We support business-to-business customers, foreign currency processing as well as convenience and surcharge fees. All available to you at zero cost. Alternatively use a third-party payment gateway or offer plugins and extensions to a variety of e-commerce platforms and shopping carts, all integrated with our merchant account.
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WP SEO Hub
Get more visitors. Drive new sales. WP SEO Hub is a WordPress SEO platform that takes your favorite SEO plugin to the next level by combining SEO tools, a step by step optimization process, monthly reporting, personalized coaching, and local search.
- Compatible – Works with your favorite WordPress SEO plugins including Yoast SEO.
- Simple – Easy to follow, step-by-step process.
- Effective – Get your site ranking appropriately in search results.
- Accessible – Personalized SEO advice via coaching sessions.
- Affordable – Starting at $35/month.
Learn more at WP SEO Hub.
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GreenGeeks
GreenGeeks is an independently owned and operated hosting provider
Our specially engineered platform offers WordPress users a web hosting that is designed for the fastest, most secure and scalable hosting available in multiple data centers. Our WordPress hosting makes deploying and managing WordPress websites easy with automatic 1-click install, managed updates, real-time security protection, SSD RAID-10 storage arrays, PowerCacher and expert 24/7 support to make for the best web hosting experience.
Since our launch in 2008, GreenGeeks has been the industry’s leading eco-friendly web hosting provider putting back 3 times the power we consume into the grid in the form of renewable energy. We are based out of Los Angeles, California with a global workforce that provides a better web hosting experience to customers from over 150 countries.
GreenGeeks is actively engaged within the WordPress community and is a proud sponsor to various WordCamps around the world.
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Go LED Wall
Based in San Diego, CA and Austin, TX, Go LED Wall has a passion for helping people and organizations share their message with the world. We provide LED Walls for events including: concerts, festivals, state fairs, weddings, corporate gatherings, trade shows, conferences, churches and more.
Visit our website for more information – https://goledwall.com/ We look forward to helping with your next event!
StickerGiant
StickerGiant is an e-commerce company that prints custom stickers and product labels. They make it fast, fun and easy to order with quality guaranteed. Every sticker has a story. What’s yours?
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