You use WordPress to build things for other people and at Code Poet, we want to make your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis, lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the whip at a large design firm, our aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make your living and look great doing it. We do the hard work of vetting resources and content, so you know that when you read a Code Poet book, or check out a resource we’ve recommended, you can be confident, sassy even, knowing it’s bona fide, that it’s information you can trust. What’s more? You can meet and get to know members of your tribe.

We’ve published three free books geared to helping Code Poets set pricing, learn a bit more about responsive design, and take control of security for their WordPress installations:

• Locking Down WordPress
• Getting Pricing Right
• WordPress Meet Responsive Design

And, to quote The Carpenters, “We’ve only just begun.” Visit codepoet.com.

We are thrilled to announce three new sponsors of WordCamp San Francisco, 2012. Put your hands together for Peer 1 Hosting, UppSite, and .tv!

North Beach

We can’t be more pleased that Peer 1 Hosting will sponsor WCSF as a “North Beach” level sponsor.

Since launching in 1999, Peer 1 Hosting has grown into one of the world’s leading hosting providers by providing the kind of exceptional service that gets noticed. In fact, everything they do is backed by their FirstCall Promise™. It means you only need to ask once and their outstanding staff won’t rest until your issue is resolved. Peer 1 Hosting boasts amazing people united in a common spirit not just to solve customer problems, but anticipate and vanquish them before they surface.

Coit Tower

We’re delighted to announce that .tv will sponsor WCSF as a “Coit Tower” level sponsor.

A .tv domain name is much more than a web extension. From your web address alone, users know what to expect: playable content and an engaging online experience. Today’s bloggers are sharing video on the web with their wireless phones, pocket cameras, and DSLRs. The most important thing is building an audience. That starts with the right domain, and a .tv is a great way for bloggers to communicate that their site has great online video content—it’s in the URL!

We’re thrilled to announce that UppSite will sponsor WCSF as a “Coit Tower” level sponsor.

With UppSite, publishers can transform their website into fully-functional, native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, as well as get a “native-style” web app, in about two minutes. UppSite even takes care of submitting your app to the various app stores. Publishers can post within the apps, visitors can comment, and, what’s more UppSite supports push notifications. Simply visit uppsite.com, type in your site’s URL, hit the “Go Mobile Now” button and UppSite takes over.

Howdy, this is Mike Schroder (DH-Shredder) from DreamHost. Here at DreamHost, we love WordPress! We use it for our primary website, blog, and status blog. Beyond that, though, we host over 600,000 domains that use WordPress, and auto-upgrade more than 300,000 installs each cycle.

By far, though, the most fun part of my job is to get to contribute to core, and see the wider community of millions of WordPress users enjoy it. You can see our activity on WordPress Trac. For information on how you too can contribute to the WordPress project, check out this codex article, or find me at WordCamp. I’m happy to help!

It’s standard practice to contribute upstream to other open source projects that DreamHost uses internally as well, like wp-cli and OpenStack. You can see many of these contributions on GitHub.

We’re always looking for ways to help customers get started with WordPress more easily, and keep their sites running faster. Come stop by our table and say “Hi!” while we’re at WordCamp San Francisco. There will be plenty of us to talk to whether it’s for questions or suggestions as to how we can make our WordPress hosting even better!

The WordPress hosting market is quite interesting! At SiteGround, we see a growing gap between traditional web hosts and managed WordPress hosting providers. Traditional mass hosting is in no way WordPress-optimized but is affordable, WordPress-compatible, and includes additional extras like email, hosting control panel, flexibility, and 24/7 support. On the other hand, managed WordPress hosting is strictly optimized for WordPress only and offers better speed, security, and support expertise. However, the downsides are the high price, the comparatively slow support, and the lack of the additional web hosting services like email, MySQL access, etc.

With SiteGround WordPress users do not have to choose between a fast website and having 24/7 support, or between expert WordPress assistance and an affordable price. We have it all. On performance tests WordPress is not slower when hosted on SiteGround servers, compared to a managed WordPress server. Our support team not only provides the same level of WordPress assistance as the specialized hosts, but we’re also considerably faster with an average response time of 15 minutes—and support is available 24/7 by phone, chat, and ticketing. We also provide great flexibility in having everything available on a traditional hosting account. That’s why for the last eight years we have been chosen as a hosting provider by more than 60,000 WordPress sites!

Check out our WordPress hosting offer!

We can’t be more pleased to announce these amazing sponsors of WordCamp San Francisco, 2012. Put your hands together for them!

Van Ness Street

If you use WordPress to build things for other people, Code Poet wants to make your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis, lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the whip at a large design firm, our aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make your living and look great doing it.

Powell Street

SiteGround, with over eight years in the business, offers shared, reseller, virtual private server, semi-dedicated, and dedicated hosting plans to suit every need and budget. And, SiteGround knows WordPress inside-out. Of over 250,000 domains hosted, 60,000 of them run on WordPress. What’s more, SiteGround provides much more than hosting, they also offer customers WordPress resources and know-how including a free WordPress theme gallery, an extensive, free WordPress tutorial, WordPress-related knowledge base articles, and 24/7 expert WordPress hosting support. Learn more about how SiteGround can meet your WordPress hosting needs.

Coit Tower

If you work on the web, then Microsoft needs no introduction. Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, Microsoft created the Windows operating system, currently at Windows 7. Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software—any time, any place and on any device. Learn more about Microsoft.

Of over 50 million sites around the world running WordPress, WP Engine hosts .06% of them and that figure grows every day. WP Engine eats, sleeps, and dreams WordPress—so much so, that it’s part of their DNA. WP Engine offers fast, managed WordPress hosting. They provide much more than speedy, personal service. They’ve got WordPress wonks on staff that can help you solve hosting problems, they offer a list of curated plugins and run a prolific WP Support Garage stuffed with FAQs and articles to help you keep your site up and running on WordPress at peak performance. Visit WP Engine to learn more about how they can serve you.

Founded in 1999, Voce Communications is much more than just a PR company: they’re communication architects. Like any good architect, their process starts behind the scenes with a solid foundation and expands skyward into something that transforms the landscape. Using a combination of skill sets, from public relations to social media marketing to web development, Voce works with companies to create content, distribute it in a world-class manner, engage in the conversation, and drive brand awareness.

Hyde Street

The MIT Sloan Management Review is a journal that makes the best new management research and ideas accessible to business executives. MIT SMR captures for thoughtful managers the creativity, excitement, and opportunity generated by rapid organizational, technological, and societal change. Visit MIT Sloan Management Review to read the guest edition or take a site tour.

In-kind

StickerGiant is two businesses in one. StickerGiant prints stickers and labels for thousands of customers all over the United States and Canada. They also feature a fun online sticker store that has over 26,000 designs from bands to sports and everything in between. Check out StickerGiant and be amazed.

We are delighted to announce that Bluehost is a “California Street” level sponsor of WordCamp San Francisco, 2012.

Did you know that venerable host extraordinaire Bluehost has been a recommended hosting provider on WordPress.org since 2005? Holy cats! Millions of users trust Bluehost to host their websites. Bluehost offers individual hosting and programs for resellers and affiliates. They offer friendly, efficient 24/7, US-based support with an on-hold time average of less than 30 seconds. Can you say prompt?

Check out Bluehost to learn more about how they can meet your web hosting needs.

We can’t be more pleased to announce that Wordnik is a “Powell Street” level sponsor of WordCamp San Francisco, 2012.

Wordnik.com is an incredible online language resource that aims to transform the way people relate to meaning, by giving visitors a 360-degree view of what a word does. Search a word in Wordnik and you’ll get much more than a dictionary definition and a thesaurus entry. Wordnik places the word in context for you, with sample uses found in texts, images that help define the word, related words, pronunciations, and more. For example, did you know that noodling is the practice or sport of fishing for catfish with your bare hands? Wow! Wordnik.com is a word-lover’s dream!

What’s more, the Related Content plugin by Wordnik constantly scans your blog, learns what it’s about, and dynamically displays the best related posts to your site visitors. Nifty!

To learn more or sign up, visit Wordnik.com.