Sponsors

Gold

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!

www.boldgrid.com

WooCommerce

37% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.

1+ million active installations
16+ million downloads
400+ 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

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.

Pantheon

Pantheon puts the power of the Internet in the hands of developers and DevOps teams, delivering rock solid hosting along with the most complete platform for professional website creation. We’ve built the world’s best website management platform—one that gives web teams all of the developer tools, hosting, scaling, performance, workflow, and automation they need to build the best websites in the world. Pantheon powers 150,000 websites, serving billions of page views per month.

For more information, visit www.pantheon.io.

Silver

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.

Bronze

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 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 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.

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/.

DreamHost

Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs and developers the world over bring their dreams to life on the Internet. From domain registrations to traditional web hosting and highly-optimized managed WordPress hosting, more than 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. DreamHost supports the WordPress project and community with dedicated resources and a passionate team. Packed with excellent value, DreamHost is a great place to launch a blog, website, or online application into the stratosphere! Learn more at www.DreamHost.com

SiteGround

SiteGround, with over 13 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 5 data centers on 3 continents, 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 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 the domain name registration, the email service, control panel and the 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 Baltimore, they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.

Yoast

Yoast helps you get the most out of your website. With over 7,5 million active installs, Yoast SEO is one of the most popular WordPress plugins worldwide. Apart from SEO plugins, Yoast offers SEO Care to help you improve your site, and online courses and eBooks to learn SEO yourself!

Sizeable Interactive

Sizeable is a WordPress agency specializing in designing responsive user experiences powered by the WordPress content management platform. Headquartered in Baltimore, MD, Sizeable offers services including but not limited to user experience consulting, testing, and research; front-end development, custom PHP application development, and expert WordPress theme and plugin development.

GreenGeeks

GreenGeeks is an independently owned and operated green web hosting provider since 2008.

We specialize in managed WordPress hosting making deploying & managing WordPress websites on our platform easy with automatic 1-click install, managed updates, enhanced security, SSD RAID-10 storage arrays + advanced caching for blazing fast performance, choice of 3 data centers and 24/7 expert support.

GreenGeeks is actively engaged within the WordPress community and is a proud sponsor to various WordCamps around the world.

Supporter

Neha Goyal

WP Buffs

WP Buffs provides WordPress maintenance plans for serious website owners & agency partners. They handle unlimited edits, performance enhancements, daily health maintenance and regular security troubleshooting so you don’t have to. This allows you to make bold decisions when it comes to your website without hesitating due to technical restraints.

With 24/7 support, a mission driven by their customers and an affinity to sponsor WordCamps, WP Buffs wants to be the very best technical support partner for any individual, business or organization with a WordPress website.

Tadpole Collective

We are your WordPress and CiviCRM team! Tadpole is a workers collective of developers, database specialists, content strategists, and product managers, who share a strong belief in open source software, collaborative effort, and empowering individual users.

Tadpole Collective is an official CiviCRM Partner organization, and our members are tireless organizers of WordCamps and WordPress Meetups around the world. Hire us to plan and build your full-scale project, or try our Help Desk service if you need some quick support!

Odenton Family Dentistry

We are a small business in the Baltimore metropolitan area. We are good friends with many local businesses, designers, and developers. We do our best to utilize local resources and are always looking for opportunities to support the local community. Check out Odenton Family Dentistry!

php[world] 2017

Hosted by One for All Events down in Tysons Corner, php[world] 2017 is the 4th annual PHP conference for the D.C. region! With six concurrent tracks, workshops included, and multiple full-day training classes being offered, there is something for anyone who is interested in PHP code. Whether you are just wanting to start picking up PHP to enhance your WordPress skills, or whether you are an advanced developer already, we look forward to seeing you at php[world] on November 15-16.

Web Traffic Access

Web Traffic Access is a Web Design/Digital Marketing Agency located in West Baltimore. We put the Web to work for small businesses with our all-in-one web design and internet marketing solutions.

Fastspot

Fastspot is a women-owned creative agency, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Our team is dedicated to working collaboratively with our clients and partners in order to deliver outstanding, award-winning digital experiences. Our services range from content strategy to focus group sessions, information architecture to fully produced websites, and integration with open source content management system solutions.

Entice Design

Entice Design, LLC is a family-operated web design and development company in Baltimore specializing in customized WordPress projects. We focus on reliability, quick turnaround, quality code, and creative solutions. Like you, we’re running a small business we care about, so we understand the importance of reputable, personalized service. We’ll get everything up and running for you with no headaches and no wasted time, plus we provide continuous support after a project’s completion. Did we mention that our designs are pretty awesome, too?

Themetry

Themetry is a DC-based WordPress theme development shop created by Leland Fiegel.

Themetry is a portmanteau of the word “theme” and the suffix “metry,” which represents the precision and focus we bring to every project.

All WordPress themes and plugins we release are licensed 100% GPL, just like WordPress itself. 🙂

Zero BS CRM

Do you need a CRM but want to keep control of your data and stop your costs spiralling out of control?

Zero BS CRM is a CRM which runs directly from your WordPress admin dashboard. No signing up to third party websites. No more paying a monthly subscription fee for each user you want to give access to your CRM. No more getting locked out of features unless you continue to pay a monthly fee.

Start using Zero BS CRM to manage your customer relationships, capture more leads and make the selling process easier for both you and your customers.

We have discounted extension bundles which are perfect for Freelancers and Entrepreneurs. Web Agencies can also benefit from reselling our CRM solution to their clients.

Visual Design Studio

A modern approach to visually create, edit and manage pages, posts and custom post types so that you can build beautiful WordPress sites easily. Visual Design Studio is an intuitive, interactive suite of plugins and add-ons that makes WordPress much easier to use and increases productivity. No more seemingly endless lists of content and media.

WordPress the way it should be – visual with realtime thumbnails for everything that matters most to your site – content, instant search, single click previews, drag and drop – all in one workspace.

It will change the way you see your WordPress content and media. it will change your workflow and enhance productivity. Visual Design Studio will change your life.

Take it for a ride today with our demo here http://wpvisualdesign.studio/

Interested in sponsoring WordCamp this year?

Check out our Call for Sponsors post for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!