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Our Sponsors
Big thanks to our sponsors. Please check out these companies who are helping make WordCamp 2017 possible.
after-party
Nexcess
Want a fast, reliable WordPress site? Drawing from over 17 years of hosting experience, Nexcess offers specialized hardware designed to deliver maximum performance to you and your site’s visitors.
Nexcess offers shared, dedicated, and cluster hosting solutions to pave the way for every endeavor. Whether you’re a fresh blogger or a sprawling enterprise, your site will start fast and stay fast with an optimized platform that’s ready to grow when you do. Best of all, around-the-clock support means you’re never stranded, even if your site breaks at 3 a.m. on a Saturday.
Not sure of what you need? Then contact the Nexcess sales team, who will help you identify your needs without inflating them.
Nexcess designed and built their facility headquarters in Southfield, MI, but also offers coast-to-coast coverage in the U.S. and international options in the Netherlands, Australia, and the UK.
Lake Superior
A2Hosting
Since 2003, A2 Hosting has specialized in linux-based, developer-friendly hosting. We cater to the WordPress community by offering robust servers and hosting accounts at an affordable cost. We back up our hosting with 24/7 support available by phone, ticket, or live chat.
A2 is active in the WordPress community – we dedicate a percentage of our development time to WordPress as part of the Five for the Future initiative, and we are active in many WordCamps.
Nexcess
Want a fast, reliable WordPress site? Drawing from over 17 years of hosting experience, Nexcess offers specialized hardware designed to deliver maximum performance to you and your site’s visitors.
Nexcess offers shared, dedicated, and cluster hosting solutions to pave the way for every endeavor. Whether you’re a fresh blogger or a sprawling enterprise, your site will start fast and stay fast with an optimized platform that’s ready to grow when you do. Best of all, around-the-clock support means you’re never stranded, even if your site breaks at 3 a.m. on a Saturday.
Not sure of what you need? Then contact the Nexcess sales team, who will help you identify your needs without inflating them.
Nexcess designed and built their facility headquarters in Southfield, MI, but also offers coast-to-coast coverage in the U.S. and international options in the Netherlands, Australia, and the UK.
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!
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.
Lake Huron
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.
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.
CloudAccess.net
CloudAccess.net offers a complete web hosting and support platform for WordPress.
You can launch a WordPress site and build as long as you’d like for FREE. Unlike other free WordPress hosting options, we give you a version of WordPress that is completely functional – we haven’t locked any features.
Paid hosting and support plans offer support from our industry-leading support team, more resources and access to the Cloud Control Panel’s built in features to help you manage your site.
Snacks
LearnDash
Transform your WordPress site into a powerful learning management system using LearnDash. Sell elearning courses, track user progress, deliver certificates, and much more!
Discover more at https://www.learndash.com
Lake Michigan
3.7 DESIGNS
3.7 DESIGNS is a strategic design agency focusing on turning great ideas into great design. Equipped with a unique design framework and methodology, we provide emotionally engaging design, usable websites and powerful functionality through the WordPress Platform.
We’re headquartered in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor, right above a brewery no less! (We only sample beers after hours… well, usually…) We’ve worked with clients across the United States and even a few worldwide. We’ve released our own products, lead local meetups, been mentioned in several books, held conferences, and even hosted a podcast or two.
WPML
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
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.
Know the Code
Know the Code empowers WordPress Developers to master web development. Our mission is to help you grow, innovate, and prosper as a professional web developer.
You build code and solve problems as you learn deeply. You dive into the languages and WordPress core to learn why, when, what, and then the how. Incrementally you become more proficient at building robust, high quality solutions from scratch.
Self-paced. On-demand. WordPress-centric. Taught by a master engineer with 3 decades of engineering experience.
It’s time to take your career to the next level. Come level up at Know the Code. All skill levels are welcome.
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.
SiteGround
SiteGround is a leading hosting provider internationally recognized for their unique approach to hosting. With a focus on performance, security and unmatched customer service, they provide solutions to protect your website from hacks and invented new technologies that can make your website run over one hundred times faster.
build/create
build/create is a digital agency based in Ann Arbor, MI, specializing in content marketing and website design and development. Using WordPress as a foundation, they build custom business solutions for clients across the country.
Co-Owner Ian Wilson is the creator and host of Step 3, a podcast centered around the anxieties, moral conundrums, and ambitions of the modern working world.
Listen at https://buildcreate.com/step3.
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.
Michigan Creative
At Michigan Creative, we work with businesses, large and small, to transform their marketing efforts into Marketing Machines that work efficiently and continuously to attract new business and promote their companies.
Lake Erie
Boiling Pot Media
Boiling Pot Media has been supporting businesses, non-for-profits, and individuals since 2011. Organizations that have a media marketing strategy are more successful. Boiling Pot Media helps organizations increase their capacity and confidence to use media to their advantage. We consult with, build for, and train our clients so that they have the tools to take actions that meet goals. Our services include marketing consultation, graphic design, content composition, brand, custom WordPress development, managed hosting, and education.
Surelutions
Surelutions is a web design and consulting business specializing in working with locally owned businesses and nonprofits. We provide the experience and expertise of an agency, with the friendly and collaborative approach of a trusted team member. With over 20 years experience in web design, management, and consulting, we love to help our clients to maximize the impact of their website and align it with their business goals. Locally owned in Chelsea, Michigan, Surelutions has worked with hundreds of clients across many industries, both locally and nationally. Having attended numerous WordCamps in Michigan and the U.S., we are proud to sponsor WordCamp Ann Arbor.
Zingerman’s Bakehouse
Zingerman’s Bakehouse is a retail and wholesale bakery in Ann Arbor, MI. Since 1992, we’ve been committed to being the best bakery we can imagine. We believe you really can taste the difference.