WordCamp for Publishers is only possible thanks to the generous support of our sponsors. You can find out a little more below about the organizations that have helped make this year’s event a reality. Gold and silver sponsors will have tables in the event hall, so come stop by and say hi!
Scholarship Sponsor
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 pageviews 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!
Gold Sponsors
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.
WordPress.com VIP
WordPress.com VIP offers a scalable and secure managed platform, expert support, and end-to-end guidance on running content applications at scale. We provide hosting and support throughout the digital media landscape, from focused outlets like Mother Jones, FiveThirtyEight, and Foreign Policy to some of the biggest publishing groups, like News Corp, Meredith, PMC, Digital First Media, and Abril. We’re proud to support the intersection of journalism and open source technology all over the world and participate in communities and events like ONA, Poynter, WAN-IFRA, and WordCamp for Publishers.
Cloudinary
Cloudinary enables organizations to optimize their sites and applications with cloud-based image and video management. By reducing page load times and improving the user experience across both web and mobile, Cloudinary improves SEO, conversion rates, and long-term revenue growth. Cloudinary works with thousands of customers, managing nearly 20 billion images and videos.
Alley
Alley is a seasoned team of strategists, researchers, designers, and developers who craft custom digital experiences for publishers, nonprofit institutions, museums, and brands. Our expertise and years of experience in these areas allow us to provide industry-leading software development, user experience, visual design, data visualization, editorial workflow, and accessibility consultation. We look at our work in terms of products, not projects. We partner with you for the long term and continuously iterate and improve based on what we learn together about your audience. At Alley, we empower you to succeed amidst the challenges of an ever-changing landscape of new initiatives, new technologies, and new distribution channels. Let’s do launch.
At Google we believe that WordPress is one of the key drivers and enablers of an open, thriving, and rich open web ecosystem; and our goal is to enable a better web by helping improve performance, security, and capabilities of millions of WordPress powered sites. We are partnering with experts in the WordPress ecosystem such as Automattic, XWP, and core contributors in the WP developers community, to work on several areas related to bringing performance and speed to every aspect of WordPress.
Join us to learn about new tools to help automate WordPress plugin and theme audits, how to accelerate your site with the AMP plugin for WordPress, and how to unlock the rich power of Progressive Web Apps in WordPress.
Silver Sponsors
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.
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.
Shifter
Shifter is the WordPress hosting solution that brings static site generation and serverless architecture to the world’s most popular CMS. Using Shifter, create always-on static sites with WordPress that load at lightning speed via free and automated HTTPS, Integrated CDN, and automated scaling.
10up
10up is a web agency that makes the internet better with consultative creative and engineering services, innovative tools, and dependable products that take the pain out of content creation and management, in service of digital experiences that advance business and marketing objectives. We’re a group of people built to solve problems, made to create, wired to delight.
WPEngine
WP Engine is the world’s leading WordPress digital experience platform that gives companies of all sizes the agility, performance, intelligence, and integrations they need to drive their business forward faster. WP Engine’s combination of tech innovation and an award-winning team of WordPress experts are trusted by over 80,000 companies across 130 countries to provide counsel and support, helping brands create world-class digital experiences. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in San Francisco, California; San Antonio, Texas; London, England; Limerick, Ireland and Brisbane, Australia.
Human Made
We are Human Made. A WordPress.com VIP partner and one of the leading providers of WordPress platforms and solutions for enterprise.
We’re building powerful digital solutions for enterprise and big publishers: delivering technically complex WordPress instances at scale and transforming the way people interact with some of the most visited websites in the world. We have extensive experience consulting for and implementing large WordPress projects for internationally successful organisations such as News UK, USA Today, Capgemini, Fairfax Media, and TechCrunch.
Our collection of services represents the breadth of our experience; our projects are at the forefront of enterprise-level development; and our people are some of the most highly-skilled professionals in the industry.
Setka
At Setka, we believe that every piece of content deserves to be beautiful. When a great story is combined with high-quality design, its true potential is unlocked. But after years of working in a complex digital publishing environment, we know how hard this can be day after day, story after story.
So, we created the Setka Editor (and its WordPress plugin) to empower editorial teams to unlock the true potential of digital design. It brings the elements we all love about print design into the interactive environment of the screens we use today. It allows for creativity in the hands of editors and designers, helping you create beautiful features every day without much extra effort or cost. It seamlessly integrates into both editorial processes and scaling technical infrastructures to keep everyone and everything moving efficiently.
We love WordPress users because you value design, too—that’s why we’ve worked hard to become a WordPress VIP technology partner and making sure Setka Editor is Gutenberg ready (and since we know you value speed, it’s AMP ready, too). We are honored to support WordCamp for Publishers in Chicago this year and be a part of this community.
ActiveCampaign
Bronze Sponsors
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!
Stickers
StickerGiant
StickerGiant is an e-commerce company that prints custom stickers and product labels. They make it fast and easy to order with quality guaranteed. Every sticker has a story. What’s yours?
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!