Sponsors

WordCamp Atlanta loves its sponsors!

Be sure to visit each sponsor and thank them personally.
Your $20/day all-inclusive ticket would not be possible without their generous financial support and commitment to the WordPress Community.

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Bluehost

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

28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.

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

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

GoDaddy Pro

GoDaddy Pro

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.

Jilt

Jilt

Jilt exists to help eCommerce merchants drive more sales. It’s that simple. We know driving traffic to your site is hard, and converting that traffic to sales is even harder. With Jilt, merchants using WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads increase revenue from their existing traffic by sending automated lifecycle emails designed to save abandoned carts and encourage repeat purchases.

Since Jilt is built by the SkyVerge team (an official WooCommerce.com partner for 5 years), your store is in great hands. Our team has seen it all, from 1-person shops to 8-figure online businesses, and we’re here to help you succeed.

SiteLock

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. Visit us at http://wpdistrict.sitelock.com/

Siteground

Siteground

SiteGround, with over 12 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 4 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 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 Atlanta, they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.

Pantheon

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!

Qualpay

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.

Pressable

Pressable

Pressable was founded in May 2010 in sunny San Antonio, Texas with the goal of creating a scalable, secure and performant WordPress hosting platform that users could trust to deliver remarkable online experiences.

Today, organizations of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 1000 companies, rely on Pressable to share branded content and deliver engaging online shopping experiences with millions of users worldwide.

Wordfence

Wordfence

Wordfence is the leading WordPress security solution, protecting over 2 million sites. It includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Our Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive security option available. 
 
Learn more at https://wordfence.com

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GoWP

GoWP
GoWP provides subscription WordPress support for agencies, small businesses and non-profits. Our service includes unlimited small tasks, WordPress core and plugin updates, offsite backups, security scans and malware removal. With our white-label Agency plan, we’ll provide your clients with this support under your brand.

 

DreamHost

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. Learn more at www.DreamHost.com

One Week Website

One Week Website

One Week Website provides an alternative to big, expensive web design companies and cheapo, do-it-yourself website builders.

We design and launch your custom website in just one week. Then we perform affordable monthly maintenance that liberates you from routine website upkeep.

The result? A stunning website that showcases your brand, helps you hit business goals, and never ever gives you headaches.

 

All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack Pro is one of the most popular and longest-running WordPress plugins.  Developed since 2007 by Michael Torbert and Semper Plugins of Raleigh North Carolina, for managing the Search Engine Optimization and social media presence of your website or blog. All in One SEO Pack is one of the most downloaded plugins for WordPress with over 40 million downloads. Chances are you’ve searched Google and found a website that’s running this powerful WordPress plugin.

Learn more and purchase online at SemperPlugins.com

Nestify

Nestify

Nestify is a managed solutions provider that caters to Enterprise, SMB, and Elite Publishers. With Nestify’s Infinity platform, businesses can deploy scalable WordPress and PHP applications on their own public cloud provider accounts such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Infinity takes care of infrastructure setup, autoscaling, installing updates, ongoing maintenance, and security. Nestify’s team of experts provide technical support round the clock with SLA response times and guaranteed resolutions.

Infinity makes it easy to collaborate with your entire dev team with multiple dev environments and dedicated Test, QA, and Live environments. Infinity supports multi-zone stacks, atomic deployments, rollbacks, and CI/CD automation.

Learn more at nestify.io.

Sideways8

Sideways8

As a digital marketing agency, Sideways8 helps organizations clearly communicate what they offer, making it easy for customers to find them.  We are constantly drumming up new resources, tips, and information to help nonprofits create a clear message, reach a wider audience, increase donations and the number of donors, promote their work and educate others. We focus on originality, strategizing, simplicity and quality work. Our values are what drive us and our great communication is what makes our clients happy. Our services include Website Design & Development, Website Care Plans, Branding & Messaging, SEO, and PPC.

Sideways8 is based out of Atlanta, GA. Founders Aaron Reimann and Adam Walker formed the company in 2010, and in years since have built a team that has hand-crafted hundreds of websites for clients of all sizes and across multiple industries.

Members of our team currently organize the Atlanta WordPress Meetup, help co-organize the Atlanta WordCamp and have also developed several plugins for the WordPress Plugin Repository.

For more information, please visit   https://sideways8.com/

A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting

Since 2003, A2 Hosting has specialized in performance based, developer-friendly hosting. We cater to the WordPress community by offering a robust platform at an affordable cost. Our offering includes Managed WordPress complete with Staging, WP CLI, Backups and Security all out of the gate. We back up our hosting with 24/7 support available by phone, ticket, or live chat. We would love for you to give A2 Hosting a try and see the difference we can make for you, your business and your website.
A2 is active in the WordPress community and attend many WordCamps like this one!

Website: https://www.a2hosting.com/
Twitter: @a2hosting
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/a2webhosting/

Marketing Agency Coach

Marketing Agency Coach

Ready to Grow, Scale or Sell Your Digital Agency?

Not all business coaches understand the ins and outs of building an agency. For example, how do you prevent scope creep on digital projects, how do you charge higher prices and how do you position your agency as the only logical choice?

These are just a few of the unique situations agency owners find themselves battling on a daily basis. Building an agency can be one of the loneliest places on earth (or it feels like it sometimes). You wish your friends and family could relate and understand the pressure you are under, but they don’t!

Get answers to all of your questions, have a partner that understands the pressure you are under and work with someone who has actually built a multi-million dollar agency.

MarketingAgencyCoach.com is your sanctuary, your proven resource library (Over 50 tools you can use) and the catalyst you need to grow your agency.

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Mr. Technique

Mr. Technique

Mr. Technique is an Intown Atlanta agency located in the West Midtown neighborhood that provides a variety of online services for small business such as Web DesignSEO, Google AdWords Management, Social Media MarketingWeb Hosting, and WordPress Maintenance services. Our web hosting plans include WordPress installations from the control panel, free SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt, and lightning fast 24/7 online support. We develop many of our clients’ websites with WordPress premium themes such as Divi, Genesis, Beaver Builder, Avada, and uDesign. If the need requires, we offer custom WordPress theme development and server-side programming services. We look for long-term relationships with our clients as we have clients that have been with us for more than 10 years. The quality of relationships, not the quantity, is what matters to us.

Yoast

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

BoldGrid

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

GreenGeeks

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.

Twitter Handle: @GreenGeeks
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/GreenGeeks

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StickerGiant

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?

Kinsta

Kinsta

Kinsta offers premium managed WordPress hosting for everyone, small or large. They are officially recommended and powered by Google Cloud Platform and their premium tier network. This gives WordPress users the ability to choose from 15+ global data centers and have access to the fastest network on the planet. They host all types of sites, from small blogs all the way up to Fortune 500 customers.

Their auto-scaling and LXD container technology allow for complete isolation of resources (Linux, PHP, Nginx, MySQL), nothing is shared. This ensures your business stays online during traffic surges and is secured like Fort Knox. If clients need assistance, they offer 24×7 support 365 days a year from a team of expert WordPress engineers.

Kinsta is proud to be developer-friendly offering support for complex installations such as Bedrock, reverse-proxy configurations, with access to tools such as SSH and WP-CLI. They pair that with their HTTP/2 CDN, free SSL, PHP 7 + HHVM, automatic backups, and incredible staging and cloning environments.

Kinsta takes managed WordPress hosting and performance to a new level at a price everyone can afford. Learn more at kinsta.com.

The Graphics House

The Graphics House

The Graphics House is a digital marketing company that provides a variety of online marketing solutions to fit every budget, from do-it-yourself solutions to done-for-you solutions. We are a small business so we understand what it is like to be a small business fish competing in a very large pond. Whether you plan on hiring a web designer or building your website yourself, good content is necessary. To learn more about creating your website content and receive your coupon for our online course click here.

SangFroid Web

SangFroid Web

We’re Liz and Eddy, husband and wife team, founders of SangFroid working with clients in Atlanta, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Marietta, Roswell (and surrounding areas) & creators of the Web Coach Newsletter. Besides the services we offer (web design, SEO, email marketing, WordPress maintenance), we are dedicated to providing you with the ability to have long-lasting success with your online presence….whether you do it yourself or hire us to help.

As business owners ourselves, we’ve been through this journey and helped many businesses get established successfully online. We are committed to providing the knowledge, tools, and resources for you to have a powerful online presence.

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