Thank You to Our Sponsors: University of Cincinnati, Yoast, A2 Hosting, SiteGround

The success of WordCamp events worldwide would not be possible if not for the sponsors who generously donate their time and resources. If you or your company are interested in learning more about sponsoring, we invite you to Become a Sponsor.

Today we thank University of Cincinnati’s College of Arts and Sciences, YoastA2 Hosting, and SiteGround for their support of the WordPress community!

University of Cincinnati Arts & SciencesUniversity of Cincinnati’s College of Arts and Sciences enrolls over 7,500 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students, making the college the mainstay of an urban, thriving top-25 research university in a city with eight Fortune 500 companies and countless industries, start-ups, and non-profits. A&S faculty deliver academic excellence with an emphasis on innovative teaching and experiential learning in a cross-disciplinary and collaborative environment. We provide our undergraduate and graduate students with unique opportunities to conduct valuable research, build professional experience, and develop cultural competency and leadership skills through co-operative education, internships, field-study, travel abroad, and community based collaboration. — A very special thank-you to the University of Cincinnati for serving as venue host for WordCamp Cincinnati!

YoastYoast helps you get the most out of your website. We make SEO available for everyone. You might be familiar with our Yoast SEO WordPress plugin. With over 7.5 million active installs, Yoast SEO is one of the most popular WordPress plugins worldwide. But that’s not all we do. We contribute a lot to open source projects and in our Yoast Academy we teach you how to make your site rank. So apart from SEO plugins, Yoast offers online SEO courses and eBooks to help you understand and practice SEO yourself.

A2 HostingSince 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.

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.