Our Sponsors
WordCamp Asheville is made possible by the generous support of the following sponsors. Without these folks, we could not offer this weekend of learning, networking, and fun! Please take some time to peruse our sponsors and see if their services fit your needs.
Interested in sponsoring WordCamp this year?
Check out our Call for Sponsors post for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!
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UNC Asheville
UNC Asheville transforms lives through leadership and education. The designated liberal arts and sciences institution for the UNC System and one of the nation’s top 10 public liberal arts universities, UNC Asheville enrolls 3,800 students and offers more than 30 undergraduate majors and a Master of Liberal Arts and Sciences degree.
UNC Asheville also encourages students to take part in a nationally acclaimed undergraduate research program and participate in interdisciplinary learning. From internships and hands-on projects, to study abroad and community engagement, students experience an education that extends beyond campus into the vibrant City of Asheville, the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains and the world. Learn more at www.unca.edu.
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WooCommerce
28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.
- 3+ million active installations
- 34+ million downloads
- 450+ extensions to add functionality
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
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.
With Jetpack’s Affiliate program you can earn 20% for every sale of Jetpack to your customers and clients. And with unlimited referrals, the sky’s the limit! Refer as many clients and contacts as you can, and get paid for every sale you generate.
Make your site work for you. Get your Jetpack today at Jetpack.com
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.
GoDaddy
GoDaddy Pro offers a robust suite of free tools to web developers & designers to help them save time managing all their clients and sites. With GoDaddy Pro, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage all their WordPress websites from one place. Exclusive time-saving tools let you update WordPress core, plugins and themes with one click, as well as automate WordPress backups, cloning and migrations. Get real-time performance, security and uptime monitoring across all your websites. Additionally, your free membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support.
When you pair GoDaddy Pro with GoDaddy hosting products, the benefits are even greater.
Liquid Web
For over 20 years, Liquid Web has been delivering products, services and support designed specifically for mission-critical sites, stores and applications. Known for our high-performance services and exceptional customer support, we own and manage our own core data centers and provide a diverse range of fully managed hosting offerings, including Managed WordPress, and Managed WooCommerce Hosting. Our recent acquisition of iThemes continues to evolve our service offerings to meet the ever-changing needs of our web-reliant, professional customers.
Liquid Web has a dedicated team of WordPress professionals who have been actively involved in the community for years. Beyond contributing code to the WordPress project, they’ve also been speaking at WordCamps, participating in WordPress-related groups and meetups, and creating open-sourced plugins that are used by WordPress users around the globe.
As an industry leader in customer loyalty, we’re known for our secure, reliable, fast, hassle-free hosting, backed by the Most Helpful Humans in Hosting™ (24x7x365 by phone, chat or ticket). At Liquid Web, we power content, commerce and potential for SMB entrepreneurs and the designers, developers and digital agencies who create for them. Everything we do is about being that partner you can trust.
For more information, please visit www.liquidweb.com, or subscribe to our Blog at www.liquidweb.com/blog.
GoWP
GoWP provides subscription WordPress support for agencies, small businesses and non-profits. Our service includes unlimited small tasks, WordPress core and plugin updates, offsite backups, security scans and malware removal. With our white-label Agency plan, we’ll provide your clients with this support under your brand. Find out more at GoWP.com
Website: https://www.gowp.com
Twitter: @GoWPsupport
Big Boom Design
Big Boom Design is an Educational Web Design and Internet Consulting agency based in beautiful Asheville, NC. Big Boom Design strives to educate and empower our clients so that they can take ownership and authorship of their web presence. We build and develop primarily on the WordPress platform and we’re honored to be a supporter of the Asheville WordCamp event for the 5th consecutive year.
Give us a call or drop us an email if you’re interested in learning more about our WordPress services, upcoming classes, or just feel like geeking out about the internet.
Web – https://www.bigboomdesign.com
Email – sales@bigboomdesign.com
Phone – 828-774-5607
Pantheon
Pantheon is the website operations platform top developers, marketers, and IT use to build, launch and run all their Drupal and WordPress websites.
Pantheon includes all of the tools professional developers need to build best-practice sites—like staging environments, version control, backups, and workflows. Powering over 200,000 sites and billions of page views a month, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security, or performance. It’s free to develop your site on Pantheon, you only pay once your site goes live. You can scale your site on the same infrastructure from day one, and never touch a server again. Create your free account now!
Twitter: @getpantheon
Website: https://pantheon.io
KnownHost, LLC
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DreamHost
Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers worldwide bring their dreams to life on the Internet. A leader in Managed WordPress hosting, over 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. Supporting the open source community with dedicated resources and a passionate team, DreamHost believes in the power of the Open Web and the people that make it happen. Learn more at DreamHost.com.
GreenGeeks
GreenGeeks is an independently owned and operated hosting provider.
Our specially engineered platform offers WordPress users web hosting that is designed for the fastest, most secure and scalable hosting available in multiple data centers. Our WordPress hosting makes deploying and managing WordPress websites easy with automatic 1-click install, managed updates, real-time security protection, SSD RAID-10 storage arrays, PowerCacher and expert 24/7 support to make for the best web hosting experience.
Since our launch in 2008, GreenGeeks has been the industry’s leading eco-friendly web hosting provider putting back 3 times the power we consume into the grid in the form of renewable energy. We are based out of Los Angeles, California with a global workforce that provides a better web hosting experience to customers from over 150 countries.
GreenGeeks is actively engaged within the WordPress community and is a proud sponsor to various WordCamps around the world.
Project 13
We create powerful, hard-working, globally recognized brand experiences. Our services include branding, web development & maintenance and commercial photography production.
Website: https://project13.com
Instagram: project13inc
CloudAccess.net
The CloudAccess.net Platform is built and optimized for Joomla Hosting and WordPress Hosting. We offer support services like free tutorials, free webinars, custom control panel and an industry-leading Support Team ready to help clients develop their Joomla or WordPress websites.
Website: https://www.cloudaccess.net/
NinjaShop
The Easiest way to sell your product on WordPress
Website: http://getninjashop.com
Twitter: @ninjashop
A2 Hosting
Since 2003, A2 Hosting has specialized in Linux-based, developer friendly hosting services. We cater to the WordPress community by offering reliable, scalable and most importantly secure, hosting solutions at an affordable price.
We recently reaffirmed our commitment to the WordPress community by releasing our Managed WP hosting solution. We built this solution from the ground up specifically to run WordPress at scale.
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Kinsta
Kinsta is a managed WordPress hosting provider that helps take care of all your needs regarding your website. We run our services on cutting-edge technology and take support seriously.
Twitter: @kinsta
Website: https://kinsta.com
Craftpeak
We provide the technology, experience, and passion to help good craft breweries become great craft breweries!
We founded Craftpeak in 2016, with the intention of making websites as amazing and specialized as our brewery’s beer. Since then, we’ve created professional business solutions to help craft breweries thrive online.
We are passionate about craft beer and inspired by the nature, art, science, creativity, hard work, and humanity that is required to build great craft beer brands. Our team leads with a strong desire to bring our core values of integrity, consistency, compassion, and transparency to every interaction.
Website: https://craftpeak.com
Twitter: @Craftpeak
Community
Forward Push
From strategizing the foundation of a campaign to putting the final flourishes on a client’s new SEO strategy, we believe that great marketing comes from a team ready to challenge the status quo while staying rooted in the research.
We’re a team filled with creative thinkers and analytic problems solvers that are some of the best in the business. Each of us are dedicated to finding the latest updates in our field, and our specialties come together to create award-winning results.
Website: https://forwardpush.com
Twitter: @forwardpush
Element-360
Element-360 is a digital marketing agency exclusively focused on the real estate industry since 2009. Our digital marketing campaigns have supported over $10 billion in sales across 16 countries. We provide, ppc, seo, social and email marketing services. What makes us unique are the methodologies we use to improve the performance of our campaigns.
Website: http://element-360.com
Twitter: @E360asheville
In Kind Sponsors
Julieta Fumberg Studio
Julieta Fumberg Studio is a full service marketing agency located in Asheville, NC with clients from all over the world. The agency has been working to help developed brands and help businesses grow from the ground up for the last 15 years. We develop brands, websites, marketing campaigns and all marketing materials needed for any given business to grow and connect with their audience. Our list of services includes and not limited to web design, graphic design, branding, printing, photography, and so much more!
Website: https://www.julietafumberg.com/
Farside Films
Farside Films is a production company with roots through out the southeast but headquartered in Savannah, Georgia. They specialize in videography and photography for concerts and live music events, independent feature and shortfilms, weddings, local and regional commercials, website marketing videos, music videos and documentary films.
They utilize the latest in digital cinema technology and achieve the highest image quality available, while keeping within the client’s budget constraints. They have a passion for creativity, in every aspect of production, and it can be seen in their work from script to screen.
Farside Films is proud to be a sponsor for the Asheville WordCamp 2018 conference.