All of our valued sponsors help support the WordPress open source project by donating to WordCamp SF, and without them this event simply would not be possible. We’re super-grateful to all WordCamp sponsors for the support they provide to the WordPress community!
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Bluehost
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.
Jetpack
Back in the day, WordPress.com blogs had lots of nifty features that were only available to self-hosted sites through a complicated system of pulleys and levers. Tricking out your self-hosted site with all the features of WordPress.com meant installing and maintaining dozens of individual plugins.
Jetpack is a single plugin that gives you the most powerful WordPress.com features, hooking your self-hosted WordPress site to WordPress.com’s infrastructure to take advantage of robust stats, easy social sharing, and a whole lot more.
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.
Pantheon
Pantheon is a Professional Website Platform — businesses, organizations, and developers use us to take WordPress to scale. We handle all the infrastructure while delivering a simple best-practice workflow to help website professionals build, launch, and run their projects. We tame the chaos of adopting WordPress across an organization, and make sure all your sites have a perfect launch every time. https://www.getpantheon.com/
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MailChimp
More than 6 million people use MailChimp to create, send, and track email newsletters. Whether you’re self-employed, you manage projects for clients, or you work for a Fortune 500 company, MailChimp has features and integrations that could suit your email marketing needs.
You can create signup forms that match your brand’s look and feel, and send your subscribers product updates, event invitations, announcements, or editorial content. Use our reports to improve your campaigns and learn more about your readers. Best of all? MailChimp is free for lists of up to 2,000 subscribers.
MailChimp also loves the WordPress and WordCamp communities!
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.
Parallels
Parallels, a leading hosting and cloud services enablement provider, offers the new Parallels Plesk 12, web management tools, featuring a powerful new security core, a full-featured WordPress Toolkit and four distinct editions of the software designed to deliver targeted functionality to web professionals, web administrators, application developers and resellers.
SiteGround.com
SiteGround, with its 10th year in business in 2014, provides WordPress hosting designed not to 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 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 at, supporting and attending various WordCamps around the world and by sponsoring WordCamp San Francisco they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.
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WooThemes
What started in 2008 as 3 WordPress enthusiasts who met online, from 3 different countries is now an international team of designers, developers and support ninjas catering for a passionate community of hundreds of thousands of users.
From our humble beginnings selling a handful of commercial WordPress themes, WooThemes now offers a huge catalog of feature rich themes and a suite of plugins that extend your WordPress experience.
InMotion Hosting
InMotion Hosting was established in 2001 and currently serves over 250,000 websites with customers all over the world. Our signature is unparalleled support on a stable and robust platform. We currently offer shared, VPS, reseller, dedicated, and commercial class servers, and we focus on tuning our servers to have an optimal WordPress experience.
Flywheel
Flywheel is a managed WordPress hosting platform built specifically for designers and creative agencies. Flywheel can make it simple to build, launch, and manage client sites with its easy-to-use dashboard built from the ground up for the modern web designer. With nightly backups, blazing-fast load times, WordPress-specific security, and an awesome support team full of WordPress developers, Flywheel helps thousands of designers across the world launch projects every day.
WP Engine
WP Engine is a leading SaaS content management platform for websites and applications built on WordPress. The company powers thousands of websites and apps built on the WordPress platform delivering a fast, reliable and secure web experience. All levels of users including bloggers, marketers, SMBs, and large corporations rely on WP Engine’s platform to keep their websites up and running. The company’s customer service team specializes in quickly solving technical problems and creating a world-class customer experience, working to ensure that each user’s WordPress site continues to perform at its full potential. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has offices in San Francisco, California.
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ManageWP
ManageWP is the world’s first and finest WordPress management service, designed for WordPress users by WordPress users, providing complete control for managing virtually any number of WordPress sites including powerful management, monitoring, backup, deployment, publishing and security tools.
Amimoto
AMIMOTO WordPressStack greatly simplifies the development and management of WordPress hosting. AMIMOTO Stack includes ready-to-run versions of WordPress.It is completely integrated and configured, so you’ll be ready to start developing your WordPress as soon as the AMI is launched onto Amazon EC2.
Stream
Stream is a service that tracks every change made by logged-in users. It’s like an audit trail for everything that happens in the WP Admin.
Stream allows you to easily…
- Keep track of what your clients are doing in WordPress (or what they’re not doing).
- Know exactly what change may have caused a problem, who did it, and when.
- See if users are doing things they shouldn’t, like deleting activated plugins, switching themes…or trashing the Front Page!
- Filter and search through activity history to get only the information you need instead of drinking from a firehose of data.
Stream is developed and supported by the folks at X-Team WP, a WordPress VIP Featured Partner agency fueled by developers who love contributing to WordPress core and giving back to the community.
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YIKES, Inc.
YIKES, Inc. is a web design and development company located in the vibrant Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia. YIKES specializes in custom WordPress theme and plugin development, site maintenance, eCommerce and more. In addition to building great websites, YIKES is dedicated to sustainable business practices by observing the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit. YIKES is committed to building a more socially, environmentally and financially sustainable local economy.
In-Kind Sponsor
StickerGiant
StickerGiant Custom Stickers prints quality stickers and labels quickly. They have sponsored hundreds of events all over the nation and are passionate about providing memorable schwag to organizers. Great customer service, 24 hour turnaround, and free die-cutting are a few of the perks of using StickerGiant: The Sticker Company for event/project organizers.
Micro Sponsors
Brent Shepherd, Anil Gupta, Anthony Burchell, Aslam Multani, Iain Taylor, James Hamilton, Cal Evans, Josh Koenig, Kathy Evans, Josh Mason-Barkin, Karl Kevilus, Marcus Sykes, Nirav Mehta, Philippe Alexis, Todd Burkemper.