Thank Your WCSD16 Sponsors!
While we are counting down the days until WordCamp San Diego 2016 we wanted to highlight this year’s sponsors whose generous donations make our WordCamp possible. Be sure to stop by and visit the sponsor’s area in the McMillin building while you’re at WordCamp.
Community Sponsors
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.
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!
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.
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.
WPML
WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.
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/.
WPML te permite hacer tu sitio multilingüe.
Al instalarlo podrás traducir todo el contenido del sitio, desde entradas, entradas personalizadas y páginas así como menúes, widgets y textos del tema y otros plugins.
Es compatible con plugins de caching, SEO, E-Commerce y muchos más.
WPML es adecuado tanto para grandes sitios corporativos como para blogs personales, y ya ha ayudado a hacer multilingüe a mas de 500.000 sitios comerciales en todo el mundo.
Más información en: WPML.org
Contratamos talento. Si eres un programador creativo, te invitamos a contactarnos: http://wpml.org/home/were-hiring/
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.
Blacks Beach
SiteGround
SiteGround provides WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 3 different data centers across the world, are optimized for ultimate WordPress speed and security and they provide many goodies for the WordPress fans – automatic updates for the core WordPress and its plugins, WordPress SuperCacher for ultimate speed acceleration, staging tool and GIT integration for the coders, and unique WordPress autoinstaller for the starting users – all crafted in-house by the SiteGround team. And still they do not forget the importance of the good old standard hosting features like domain name registration, email service, control panel and reasonable pricing. They also have a support team that is not only available 24/7 by phone, chat and ticketing, but consists of WordPress enthusiasts who will help you with specific WordPress issues.
SiteGround has been actively involved with the community speaking, supporting and attending various WordCamps around the world and by sponsoring WordCamp San Diego they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.
MediaTemple
Over 125,000 customers in 100 countries now rely on Media Temple’s tools for domain registration, web hosting, business applications, virtual servers, and other cloud services to power more than 1.5 million websites. With 200 dedicated, U.S.-based employees, Media Temple takes pride in our 24/7 customer support. Our customers range from everyday people to top bloggers, creative professionals, and small businesses, as well as large enterprises like Starbucks, Adidas, Samsung, and Toyota.
More information can be found anytime on the web at http://mediatemple.com or on Twitter@MediaTemple.
Rochen
Founded in 2003, Rochen’s mission is to build innovative hosting services that, while complex, are elegant and simple to use. We deliver these services on top of the most reliable server and network infrastructure available. We underpin these services with world-class support from pragmatic, technically capable, and customer service focused teams.
Find out more information by visiting Rochen here: https://www.rochen.com/
Sucuri
Sucuri gives website owners peace of mind with solutions that prevent hackers from abusing websites, and professional response services to those compromised. Sucuri is dedicated to researching the latest and emerging threats affecting websites like yours.
Website security should be attainable for all website owners; we focus on making that a reality. Get back to running awesome WordPress websites. Our services are built around three principles – People. Process. Technology.
WP Engine
WP Engine is the premium managed platform for websites and applications built with WordPress. WP Engine delivers the fastest, most reliable, and most secure web experience. Businesses large and small rely on WP Engine’s exceptional customer service team specializing in quickly solving technical problems, and creating a world-class customer experience.
Ecwid
Ecwid is a hosted cloud commerce platform used by over 900,000 merchants in 175 countries and offers the easiest way to add an online store to any WordPress site, social site or multiple sites simultaneously. With Ecwid, your clients get everything needed to start selling online in minutes. Easily embedded into any web presence and leading POS systems, clients can market, merchandise and sell products and services from multiple online stores with mobile management and point-of-sale integration anywhere at any time. Ecwid’s Jumpstart Partner Program offers the first and only private-label e-commerce solution for developers, agencies and freelancers globally.
Trestles
Give – Donation Plugin
Give is proud to sponsor WordCamp San Diego 2016. We are based in Downtown San Diego 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 features geared towards helping your Cause.
Simple and Pain Free Giving
Keep donors on your website. No bouncing to a third-party site or platform. The donation plugin works great, directly in WordPress.
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.
WP Site Care
WP Site Care is a WordPress Support and Site Management company. We love helping companies and individuals with their WordPress websites. We manage everything from WordPress Hosting, to themes, plugins, and even one-on-one support. We have monthly site management plans, as well as our a la carte service offerings. We love to help people love WordPress!
Pressidium
Pressidium® offers a managed WordPress hosting platform built with Enterprise Architecture design. Our platform is built specifically to host professional WordPress sites, by using webscale technologies and systems specifically optimized to deliver incredible speed, unparalleled availability and uptime. Pressidium® offers fast, robust, scalable, secure WordPress Hosting and an awesome DevOps support team full of WordPress experts. Our fully managed WordPress hosting service allows you to concentrate on your content without worrying about your website.
La Jolla Shores
iThemes
Since 2008, iThemes has been creating WordPress tools to help you build and grow your freelance web design business with WordPress.
ServerPress
DesktopServer from ServerPress.com makes it simple to create local WordPress sites in just a matter of a few clicks. With DesktopServer you can design, develop and deploy WordPress solutions quickly and easily. It is the ONLY localhost server that integrates WordPress with Adobe® Dreamweaver®, Panic’s Coda and Diet Coda with WYSIWYG features for theme design and web developer professionals, offers multi-site, import and export (deployment) of archive files such as BackupBuddy, Duplicator, BackWPUp, BackUp WordPress, InfiniteWP & ManageWP, create custom blueprints and a lot more! Save tons of time and even more “brain damage” with DesktopServer!
Oceanside
Beaver Builder
Easily build responsive WordPress websites without touching a line of code. Use Beaver Builder’s page builder plugin to quickly build pages with any theme. Or, use it with our framework theme for the perfect balance of power and simplicity.
Visit https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/ for more information!
Crowd Favorite
Crowd Favorite is a premier, boutique professional services firm focused on enterprise-level clients such as National Geographic, Lexus, and DirecTV, and several major movie studios. A leader in the WordPress community and the first WordPress professional services firm, Crowd Favorite has established offices throughout the US and Europe to deliver large-scale client projects. Crowd Favorite also provides consulting and web development services specializing in web applications and user experience.
Del Mar
Zeek Interactive
Zeek Interactive is a small and highly focused group of talented people. We’ve been solving problems for clients since 1995, and we’ve been focused on the web from day one. As the web has grown and changed, our skills have expanded to match. Zeek’s experience on hundreds and hundreds of Internet projects is now focused on two major platforms, WordPress and iOS. We are not just technologists. We are also driven by both a desire to help our clients achieve their business results, and an equally strong desire to give back to the development community we love.
GitHub Updater
GitHub Updater is an Open Source project by Andy Fragen. It’s a simple plugin to enable automatic updates to your GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab hosted WordPress plugins and themes. It also allows for the remote installation of plugins or themes.
GitHub Updater is and has been a project that has taught me much and more importantly helped others with their work. Try it out and see if it doesn’t save you time and energy with your own development projects.
Find GitHub Updater at https://github.com/afragen/github-updater
Find Andy Fragen and say “Hi”.
LearnDash
easyname
easyname is one of the oldest web hosting companies in Europe. We have decades of experience and offer a wide variety of top level domains (over 447). We tailor our solutions towards professionals and programmers. Check out our international site as well:easyname international
Oasis Workflow
Oasis Workflow WordPress Plugin allows you to build editorial review workflows with its easy to use drag and drop visual editor. The plugin also adds workflow support to revise your published content.
One of the biggest problems with multi-author blogs is knowing exactly who is responsible for working on what at any given time. Oasis Workflow gives you the flexibility to create from a basic to highly sophisticated workflows quickly and easily. With features like workflow inbox, due dates, email reminders, editorial comments, teams and more, it streamlines your editorial review process and enhances productivity for busy blogs.
Visit https://www.oasisworkflow.com/ for more information!
In-Kind
StickerGiant
StickerGiant prints high-quality stickers and labels. They have the best customer service, quick turnaround times and free custom shapes using state of the art laser cutting. Every sticker has a story. Want to share your story today? They’re waiting to hear from you.
stickergiant.com
Stephen Carnam is the founder of ServerPress, LLC, a technology firm that creates tools using open source technology for creative web designers and professional web developers. Stephen has 20+ years of software development and consulting experience. He is also co-admin for the Advanced WordPress Facebook group and a co-organizer for Advanced WordPress Meetup. Previously, Stephen held positions as a senior software developer and technology director specializing in interactive graphic engines for 3D game development, industrial applications, and defense simulations. When not writing code, Stephen enjoys graphic design, circuit board hacking, or sculpting new ideas for 3D printing in his garage shop.
Konstantin is a WordPress aficionado, and Core Developer based in Ventura, CA. You might remember him from projects like WordPress 4.3 or the new WordPress.org Theme Directory. At Automattic he’s is part of a team that contributes to Core and WordPress.org full time. He enjoys bourbons, craft beers, and good food‚ sometimes so much that he blogs about it.
Zack Tollman is the application architect on the WIRED tech team. Before joining WIRED, Tollman worked as technical lead at the Theme Foundry and senior web engineer at 10up. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Lawrence University and PhD from Washington State University. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife.
Josh Cummings is an avid WordPress user and plugin and theme developer. He is currently a front-end developer at Grizzly where he and his team use the power and flexibility of WordPress every day. Along with his passion for translating beautiful design into code, he enjoys teaching, speaking and contributing to the WordPress community.
Alicia St Rose began her adventure with WordPress when a UX friend offhandedly suggested using the CMS for a mutual friend’s website. That was nearly 8 years ago and the adventure has turned into a torrid love affair. Now she is a freelance developer, exclusively powered by WordPress, and has yet to find a limitation in this magical piece of software. Not only does she design and develop custom themes, but she also coaches folks on how to use WordPress like a Pro. She currently lives in Santa Barbara, California with her two rambunctious cats, Oscar and Milo. She divides her time between that seaside town and Black Rock City, Nevada. Oh, and her favorite color is red.
I can jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace. I focus on WP, Sass, Angular, & beer. Organize FrontEndAuthority.org, admin Advanced WordPress, and front end development for Veyo Logistics.
Josh, is a WordPress plugin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He is the owner of CalderaWP, makers of Caldera Forms, and a co-founder of Ingot, the easiest A/B testing framework for WordPress. In addition he is a contributor to WordPress core, the WordPress REST API, and plugins by Foo Plugins, Postmatic, Pods, Aesop Interactive, WordImpress, GravityView and more. One of Josh’s favorite things to do is to share what he has learned about WordPress plugin development, business and community. He writes regularly for Torque Magazine and has contributed to other top WordPress tutorial sites including, Smashing Magazine, Tuts+, and WPBeginner. He is also the author of the book The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress REST API.
Hi! I’m Carl. I have a website where I publish articles on a regular basis. It’s my way to help you with these hard-to-learn topics. That’s also why I’m excited to speak at WordCamp San Diego 2016. . It’s another way for me to help you. Besides that, I’ve been a WordPress Montreal organizer since 2010. I also help organize other WordPress events during the year. You can find me on Twitter and GitHub.
