Sponsors

Our WordCamp Sponsor Community

Grassroots. From the ground up. The WordPress community is self-taught and self-supported. We use our collective knowledge to empower each other. To develop and execute websites that are sleek, engaging, and seamlessly execute all required tasks – from raising brand awareness through providing online commerce. We build websites. We build community. We build together – with each contributor making a stronger community. You, our sponsors, help propel us forward. We thank you.

Interested in sponsoring WordCamp this year? We are still looking for sponsors!

Click here for information on being a sponsor. We need your help to make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!

Venue Sponsor

University of Cincinnati – Tangeman University Center

University of Cincinnati – Tangeman University Center

University 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.

Because of the breadth and depth of our 65+ academic programs, we are able to provide an unparalleled offering of interdisciplinary opportunities in order to allow our students to think creatively about how they can address local and global challenges.

Our promise is to provide an educational experience, an alumni network, and unparalleled student services that our students cannot get anywhere else.

As part of the A & S experience, students are able to participate in UCommunicate, a student-run communication services firm housed in the Department of Communication. UCommunicate specializes in helping small businesses, start-ups and nonprofits by providing a variety of services, including marketing, public relations, event planning and promotion, social media and professional communication training. UCommunicate’s mission is provide UC students with meaningful experiential learning opportunities by working with real clients and organizations at UC and in the greater Cincinnati area. You can learn more at UCommunicate.org.

Gold

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

WooCommerce

WooCommerce

37% 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.

Jetpack sends new content directly to your subscribers’ inboxes and shows readers related content, helping you increase page views per visitor and boost ad revenue. Whenever you need it, you can rely on priority support from our global team of WordPress experts to ensure a friction-free experience for your visitors — and for you.

Make your site work for you. Get your Jetpack today at Jetpack.com

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.

Silver

GoDaddy

GoDaddy

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.

Juble it!

Juble it!

Juble it! is a platform that allows creators of all kinds (bloggers, Youtubers, podcasters, etc.) to make money and get seen by enabling their fans a simple way to give a small amount of money, and making that experience lasting.

At our core, Juble it! is a social button like the Facebook or Twitter buttons; but instead of sharing, you give as little as one dollar back to the creator as a way of showing your appreciation. But it’s not just about an easy way to give a small amount of money…it’s also about celebrating that content for others to appreciate. We do this by posting that content to a feed that is accessible via jubleit.com or the mobile app. As a result, this feed will have some of the highest quality content available because people have spoken up with their wallets instead of clicking the frivolous “like”.

Bronze

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.

WPML

WPML
WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.

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

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

SiteGround

SiteGround

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. 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 Cincinnati, they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.

Pressbuilt

Pressbuilt

We design, build and maintain websites that perform.

  • Strategy – You’ve done the research, identified an opportunity, and crafted a clear, compelling vision. Now you just need to navigate the sprawling, constantly-changing technical landscape and build a website that performs. As your trusted partner, we’ll provide valuable insights and guide you along the path from great idea to quantifiable success.
  • Development – Building websites and software requires a thoughtful, systematic process. We draw on deep software development experience to design, build and deploy websites using industry-accepted best practices and modern technical patterns.
  • Support – We value long term relationships. After building high-quality products for our clients, we focus our attention on support, maintenance, and ongoing enhancements aimed at continuous improvement. As our client, you can be assured that we’ll work closely with you through every stage in the life of your projects.

Yoast

Yoast

Yoast helps you to get the most out of your website by making SEO available for everyone. You might know our Yoast SEO plugin; with over 7.5 million active installs, Yoast SEO is one of the most popular WordPress plugins worldwide.

At Yoast, we believe in holistic SEO: not just one aspect of a website, but all aspects are important and should, therefore, be as good as possible. We don’t approach SEO as a trick to rank higher in Google but stimulate site owners to make their site the best possible search result. All awesome websites have three things in common: they’re easy to use, contain the right information, and they’re fast and reliable. If you do all that right, a website becomes easier to find as well!

Our products help people create remarkable sites. We offer plugins that make optimizing websites as easy as pie. Our other products, like online courses and eBooks, help customers improve their sites. Last but not least, by contributing to loads of open source projects, like WordPress, we try to make the web better for everyone.

Web: yoast.com
Facebook: facebook.com/yoast
Twitter: twitter.com/yoast

A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting

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.

Montgomery Inn

Montgomery Inn

In 1951 Ted and Matula Gregory opened the original restaurant in the very underdeveloped area of Montgomery, Ohio. It was really just a place for Ted and his friends to gather, but Matula’s incredible cooking skills could not be ignored. One night she decided to make ribs, and people went nuts for them. Soon a local critic dubbed Ted the “Ribs King,” and the legend was secured. As the town of Montgomery blossomed, word of these incredible ribs spread fast—so much so that the Inn became a mecca for any celebrity passing though town, a tradition that lives on to this day.

Today there are three locations: the Original Montgomery Inn, the Boathouse, and Ft. Mitchell. Montgomery Inn food is so beloved that it‘s available online anywhere in the country for those who can’t wait to get their fix. The Gregory children are carrying on their parents’ legacy, making sure Montgomery Inn remains one of the finest family restaurants in the country, and keeping the colorful memory of the Ribs King alive and well.

The Best Ribs on the Planet. And Beyond.

Ted and Matula Gregory truly earned the titles of Ribs King and Ribs Queen. When we say our ribs are famous, we mean it. Enjoyed by actors, athletes, and every U.S. President since Gerald Ford, they’re hand-spiced and slow-roasted daily, then finished off on our custom broiler. But Matula’s secret recipe sauce is the real star, made with only the finest California tomatoes and a super-secret blend of all-natural spices. And don’t worry about wearing a bib. It’s a good look.

Small Business Sponsor

Wunderfund

Wunderfund
Making it easy for Startups to raise money, starting in Cincinnati, OH!
 
Raise up to $1M from crowd investors. It’s hard for startups to raise money, because it typically has to be done privately & offline. Wunderfund now allows startups to publicly raise seed capital from angels, raise friends & family equity rounds, or simply bypass the banks altogether.
 
We make angel investing available to Everyday People! Wunderfund empowers everyday investors to own a piece of startups such as breweries, tech companies, real estate, & restaurants. Before, only the wealthy heard about these deals and only the rich could participate. Not anymore!
 
Wunderfund is one of the first SEC/FINRA-licensed funding portals in our region. There are only a few across the country and we’re one of the first in our region (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, & Michigan); help us make this a destination for startups!

Bash Foo

Bash Foo
Bash Foo is an inbound marketing agency that seeks to build the online reputations of small business in affordable and inspiring ways. Bash Foo transforms creative web design, search engine optimization, and marketing automation from a business into an art form.
Learn more at bashfoo.com