Without our generous sponsors WordCamp Austin simply could not happen. We would like to extend a great bit Thank You for all of this years sponsors and invite you to visit their sites below.
Want to become a sponsor yourself? Sponsorships start for as little as $75. You can sign up here.
Pillar
HostGator
Founded in 2002 and with the experience gained from hosting over 9,000,000 domains, HostGator is the perfect web partner WordPress users seeking blazing fast speed and 24/7 USA-based, scope-free support. With our QuickInstall application, you can get your WordPress site setup quickly and easily with only a few clicks. Moving from another hosting company? We have a dedicated team that will transfer all of your files and databases over to your new server for FREE.
We look forward to celebrating everything that is WordPress at WordCamp 2014, so please take a few minutes to come say hi, or find us on Twitter @HostGator.
Media Temple
From its inception in 1998, (mt) Media Temple has been on a mission to help people and businesses succeed online.
Over 125,000 customers in 100 countries now rely on Media Temple’s simple tools for domain registration, web hosting, business applications, virtual servers, and other cloud services to power more than 1.5 million websites. We take pride in offering a premium service at a competitive price, along with exemplary 24/7 customer support. Our customers range from everyday people to top bloggers, creative professionals, and small businesses, as well as large enterprises like Starbucks, Adidas, Samsung, and Toyota.
With 200 dedicated, U.S.-based employees, Media Temple has been repeatedly recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America—and one of the best places to work. Find us anytime on the web at http://mediatemple.com or on Twitter @MediaTemple.
WiredTree
WiredTree provides Managed VPS and Managed Dedicated Servers to WordPress users worldwide from our Chicago-based data center and offices. Every WT server is backed by 24×7 telephone support, ticket support with 15 minute average response times, and is fully managed and monitored by WiredTree to maximize uptime and minimize frustration. All servers come ready-to-run with cPanel/WHM and are optimized and security hardened with firewall and anti-spam out of the box. With experience in SSD technology, MariaDB, Memcached, WordPress plugins, server optimization, and LiteSpeed Web server, WiredTree can take your site’s performance to the next level.
Gold
WP Engine
WP Engine is the premium managed platform for websites and applications built with WordPress. WP Engine delivers the fastest, most reliable, and most secure web experience. Businesses large and small rely on WP Engine’s exceptional customer service team specializing in quickly solving technical problems, and creating a world-class customer experience.
Stream
Do you know about all the changes being made on your clients’ WordPress sites?
Probably not. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
That’s why we built Stream.
Stream is a free plugin that tracks every change made by logged-in users. It’s like an audit trail for everything that happens in the WP Admin.
Now you can 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 site editors 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, maintained and supported by the folks at X-Team, a WordPress VIP Featured Partner agency fueled by developers who love contributing to WordPress core and giving back to the community.
Come say hello, we’d love to meet you!
Champion
Code Poet
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, Code Poet’s 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.
You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over 10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. codepoet.com aims to bring the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into one place, for you to tap into.
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.
Disqus
Disqus is a free service that makes it easy for anyone to create or participate in an online community. Our magic is in connecting people to stuff that’s worth talking about.
Silver
ServerPress
DesktopServer from ServerPress.com makes it simple to create local WordPress sites in just a matter of a few clicks. With DesktopServer you can design, develop and deploy WordPress solutions quickly and easily. It is the ONLY localhost server that integrates WordPress with Adobe® Dreamweaver®, Panic’s Coda and Diet Coda with WYSIWYG features for theme design and web developer professionals, offers multi-site, import and export (deployment) of archive files such as BackupBuddy, Duplicator, BackWPUp, BackUp WordPress, InfiniteWP & ManageWP, create custom blueprints and a lot more! Save tons of time and even more “brain damage” with DesktopServer!
Ithemes
Founded in 2008, iThemes provides professional WordPress software, including themes, training and plugins, like BackupBuddy, iThemes Exchange, iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) and more. With a 20+ person team, iThemes is committed to making people’s lives awesome by providing simple, easy to use solutions for WordPress. You can learn more at http://iThemes.com.
Webtegrity
Webtegrity is a full service web development firm in San Antonio, Texas, that has been around since before Google existed. We focus on WordPress Responsive web design with the User Experience at the core of all we do. We’re proud to be different from other web companies by educating our clients and offering classes on SEO, SMM, WordPress and even Web Development. Connect with our Small team to find the HUGE difference! www.Webtegrity.com
Accomplice
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 400,000 commercial websites from all over the world.
More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org
Bronze
Maintainn
Maintainn provides real WordPress help including 24/7 security monitoring, nightly backups, weekly updates and expert support. You’ll never have to worry about your WordPress site again – with Maintainn on your team you can focus on your business and let them handle the rest.
WP101
WP101.com was launched almost 6 years ago by Houston WordPress designer and consultant, Shawn Hesketh, with the goal of providing the very best WordPress video training for beginners, enabling just about anyone to learn the basics without having to spend hours reading boring tech books. Since then, WP101 has helped more than 16,000 members learn how to use WordPress to build and a manage their own website, regardless of their technical ability.
Chris Lema
For twenty years Chris has been managing high performers and overseeing new product development. He’s a daily blogger, an ebook author, a public speaker and works as the VP of Engineering for Emphasys Software. In his spare time he helps companies leverage WordPress, and WordPress companies find leverage.
WooThemes
WooThemes is an international, market leading, bootstrapped business providing a platform to extend standard WordPress-powered websites via a range of innovative themes and plugins. Their flagship product being WooCommerce – a hugely popular, freely available eCommerce plugin with a wide range of commercially available extensions and themes. With WooThemes businesses and individuals can get professional WordPress sites launched quickly and affordably.
UpThemes
UpThemes creates beautiful, responsive WordPress themes. Our focus is on gorgeous typographic rhythm, beautiful presentation of stories and imagery, as well as designing and creating themes that we actually want to use for our own blogs and websites. We slave over every detail of every element we create and it shows in the quality of our themes. We hope you’ll agree.
WPMU Dev
BruteProtect
BruteProtect protects your WordPress sites against Botnet attacks for free! Over 56,000,000 attacks stopped as of March 2014. For more information, visit BruteProtect.com
WP Site Care
WP Site Care is a WordPress Support and Site Management company. We love helping companies and individuals with their WordPress websites. We manage everything from WordPress Hosting, to themes, plugins, and even one-on-one support. We have monthly site management plans, as well as our a la carte service offerings. We love to help people love WordPress!
Small Business or Individual
Graphically Designing
Web Hosting For Students
Web Hosting for Students is the only hosting company dedicated solely to providing web design and development to students and teachers with top of the line hosting slices at prices more affordable than anyone else. The company is a partnership between expert WordPress teacher, Zac Gordon, and SiteGround, an industry leader in WordPress hosting.
WinningWP
A popular blog on all things WordPress, WinningWP regularly publishes a range of different articles and offers an awesome assortment of WordPress-related deals and discounts on themes, plugins, hosting and more!
Craft Beer Austin
Craft Beer Austin launched in late 2012 to be the central source for Austin’s rapidly growing and dynamic Craft Beer community. Check out our website or follow us on Twitter @CraftBeerATX for latest Craft Beer news & events happening in the Austin area!
Advice Interactive Group
Advice Interactive Group is an award-winning, full-service digital marketing agency headquartered in McKinney, Texas. A fast-paced company in an exciting industry, Advice was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the 500 fastest-growing companies in America for the past two years. With expertise in the areas of local search for national corporations (i.e., “nationally local”) as well as for their own technology platform—which can be scaled to fit the needs of companies of all sizes—Advice Interactive provides solutions for some of the largest, most successful brands in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K.
Pretty Darn Cute Designs
PDCD is your one stop shop for Pretty WordPress Themes. We meticulously craft and test each design until it’s perfect. All you have to do is install, setup and get back to business. Upon purchase you gain access to our unmatched support team waiting to assist you with any questions you might have. Our goal is to alleviate the technical side of things so you can enjoy your website.
I Teach Blogging
I TEACH BLOGGING includes a FREE membership site with tutorials and community forum, a blog with a step-by-step WordPress Thesis toolbox, plus free downloads. More than anything, it’s a community that YOU help build and grow even as you learn. Follow @iTeachBlogging and @BlogBuildTips on Twitter, and browse over to http://my.iTeachBlogging.com to learn more.
Fusionized Technology
Fusionized Technology is the consulting arm of Ryan Duff. He specializes in solving a wide range of problems with WordPress. With the main focus on back-end programming, system management, and scalability, he’s recently branched out to full site development to be able to provide a wider range of services offered to his clients.
The Sherry Lowry Group
In-Kind
Great Hall Games
http://www.greathallgames.com/
We started in 1998 as a shoppe named Great Hall Games & Distractions at Texas Renaissance Faires. Hence the name harkening back to days of olde. The Great Halls in European castles were places where people gathered to talk, play games, eat, or be entertained. We were vendors at several Renaissance Faires in central Texas for 5 years (1998-2002).
With games for the Renaissance Faires taking up the entire dining room of our home, we decided it was time for either a storage locker or a store. In late August of 2000, we opened a small shop in the lower level of Dobie Mall for Rob’s August birthday. In July 2001, we moved to a larger store on the food court level of the mall for our July wedding anniversary. We continued with the Renaissance Faire for two years while maintaining a shop in the mall. In June 2004, we moved to a larger location at 5501 N Lamar in Austin.
Although we have been away from the Renaissance Faires for many years, we still enjoy offering traditional and historically based games. We like to carry games in which players can touch the game pieces, hear the clicking or tapping sounds as pieces are moved, or view the the artistic beauty of a game. We also want to offer situations where one can see the sweat on a brow, a gleam in the eyes, a smirk or tweak of a grin, a nervous tick, or even drumming fingers. Things which you can’t really experience through on-line gaming!
StickerGiant
StickerGiant Custom Stickers prints quality stickers and labels quickly. They have sponsored over 100 WordCamps all over the world. The best customer service, 24 hour turnaround, and free die-cutting are a few of the perks of using StickerGiant. TheSticker company for WordPress users. Email our StickerFairy Hailey and use the code Wordcamp2014 and receive a free sticker pack at: hailey@stickergiant.com