Category Archives: Sponsors

Thank You, WordCamp Seattle Sponsors

Remember how pleasantly surprised you were when you saw the price of your WordCamp Seattle ticket? That’s not just us being generous.

Your low ticket price, the free lunch you get both days, the fancy venue where we’re holding the event, and many other benefits of this two-day WordPress love-fest were all made possible by the generous support of our sponsors.

These companies are all important members of our WordPress community, and we hope you’ll support them.

The Gold Sponsors are all exhibiting at WordCamp Seattle. Please visit their booths and let them know how much you appreciate their support.

Gold Sponsors

Jetpack

Jetpack is a single plugin that instantly gives you 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.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open-source eCommerce solution built on WordPress. With more than 1 million active installations, more than 37% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. 400 extensions let you add all kinds of additional functionality to your store.

Bluehost

Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 2 million WordPress sites worldwide. Bluehost helps 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.

BoldGrid

BoldGrid is a website builder that makes your WordPress experience more intuitive. Tedious tasks are automated and the entire WordPress workflow is reimagined to save you time and frustration.

Pantheon

With Pantheon, you get hosting plus a ton of other features:

  • Developer Dashboard
  • One-Click Core Updates
  • Continuous Integration
  • Automated DevOps
  • Advanced Caching
  • Backup & Retention

Pantheon is a WordCamp silver-level global community sponsor, but they upgraded to gold because they love the Seattle WordPress community that much.

Avalara

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. Avalara delivers comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use. Avalara has made big investments in small business, including their “Gimme 5 Small Business Customer Spotlight” that gives you a chance to win $5,000 for your small business.

MediaTemple

Since 1998, Media Temple has helped web developers, designers, digital entrepreneurs, and innovators bring their ideas to life online. Technology trends come and go, but one thing has never changed: Media Temple’s commitment to customer success. They provide web hosting and cloud services for 1.5 million websites in 100 countries. From everyday people to top bloggers, creative professionals, and businesses small and large, Media Temple makes it easy for anyone to have an effective, engaging Internet presence.

SiteGround

SiteGround offers a variety of hosting options, using the latest performance-enhancing technologies. SiteGround provides unique security solutions and technical support that earns a near-100% customer rating. They brought a ton of swag to Seattle, so be sure to stop by their booth. If you attend the KidsCamp workshop, they brought cute socks for the kids.

FlyWheel

Flywheel is a WordPress platform that empowers designers, developers, and digital agencies to focus on what they do best — build beautiful, functional sites for their clients. Flywheel makes it easy to create and develop WordPress sites, handle hosting, hand off billing, and scale your business. Flywheel recently released their free Super Simple SSL.

Setka

Setka provides innovative management and editing tools that empower people in media to create beautiful content. The Setka Editor plugin for WordPress was developed by a group of media professionals who have been creating great-looking content for more than a decade. Setka Editor enables more than 300 brands and 100 editors to create award-winning content and advertising experience.

Silver Sponsors

GoDaddy

GoDaddy‘s exclusive Quick Start wizard gets you online fast with pre-built websites with all the essential pages and features. We even include a free library with thousands of high-quality images. Plus, our intuitive drag and drop editor makes it easy to add text, edit images or even rearrange the page. And if you have some technical skills, you can add virtually any feature you can imagine.

Sitelock

SiteLock is currently protects over one million WordPress websites. SiteLock is a global leader in cloud-based website security solutions, protecting a total of over eight million websites around the world.

iThemes/BackupBuddy

BackupBuddy is the original WordPress backup plugin to backup, restore & move WordPress.

IvyCat

Next year marks IvyCat’s 15th year in business. They have sponsored every WordCamp Seattle and every WordCamp Portland since they started. We are very happy to welcome back our very first original sponsor for another WordCamp.

WPEngine

WPEngine offers stunning speed, powerful security, and best-in-class customer service. At WP Engine, WordPress isn’t just our platform, it’s our passion.

In addition to these gold- and silver-level, we also thank our bronze, small-business, and in-kind sponsors, all listed on this page.