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Our Sponsors
We wouldn’t be able to put on such a great WordCamp without the help of our wonderful sponsors!
Western Reserve
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. Our in-house Application Optimizer, Ben Cool is also an organizer of the Ann Arbor WordCamp, and speaks at many other WordCamps across the country.
Cleveland
GoDaddy
GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.
Jetpack
Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites by connecting to WordPress.com. This connection enables Photon (global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look-and-feel of your site without needing extra plugins. More information can be found at jetpack.me
Bluehost
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. You can join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.
Pantheon
The website management platform for Drupal & WordPress, Pantheon provides web teams with the hosting, cloud-based developer tools, and scalable infrastructure needed to run awesome websites. Serving billions of pageviews a month for over 100,000 websites, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security or performance. It’s free in development. Create your free account now!
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the fastest growing eCommerce software/platform, powering over 30% of all eCommerce stores with over 1 million active installations. It is is built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, making it the obvious eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers over 25% of all websites on the internet.
With WooCommerce you can start with all the basic tools that any small business would need to start selling online, including product setup, payments, shipping options, and sales reports and as your business grows choose from over 300 premium add-ons available including additional payment processors, shipping methods, inventory systems and marketing tools anyone to sell anything, anywhere from real products and digital downloads to subscriptions, content and even your time.
In July 2015, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month and also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. We look forward to growing WooCommerce to achieve even greater things together with Automattic.
SiteGround
SiteGround, with over 12 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 4 different data centers across the world, 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 Northeast Ohio, they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.
Akron
iThemes
Since 2008, iThemes has been creating WordPress tools to help you build and grow your freelance web design business with WordPress.
Gravity Forms
Canton
WPML
OnTheGoSystems is the author of WPML and Toolset plugins.
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.
Toolset plugins allow you to develop WordPress sites without PHP. They work with any theme and with other plugins.
OnTheGoSystems is always looking for exceptional people to join the team. To learn more about our products and open positions, visit:
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.
Plesk
Plesk simplifies web management activities to align with the way infrastructure is used today for hosting websites and web applications. A widely used web management solution, Plesk provides everything a web professional needs to set up a website quickly and securely – including a WordPress Toolkit, an easy-to-navigate control panel, server level automation, supportability tools, and complete protection with our server-to-site security core.
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!
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 malware scanning and vulnerability detection, automatic malware removal, an advanced web application firewall (WAF), PCI compliance and website acceleration powered by a global CDN. SiteLock provides phone support, available 24/7/365.
Yoast
At Yoast, we optimize websites in a holistic way. Not just one aspect of websites, but every aspect. Making sites more usable, easier to navigate, faster and more reliable. In other words: we make websites work. For the owner ánd the visitor. The added bonus is that if you do all that right, a website becomes easier to find as well.
With over 4 million active installs Yoast SEO is the most popular SEO plugins around. And there’s more!
To help people create awesome websites we offer: plugins that make optimizing and analyzing websites easy as pie; website reviews that provide an in-depth analysis and lots of practical tips; online courses and eBooks that give people the skills and the knowledge to start improving their own site.
Facebook: facebook.com/yoast
Twitter: twitter.com/yoast
LearnDash
Transform your WordPress site into a powerful learning management system using LearnDash. In minutes, create (and even sell) your online courses, track user progress, deliver certificates, and much more! Find out more athttp://www.learndash.com
Full Spectrum Marketing
Whether we are helping a small business, a school district, or a publicly traded company, we follow the principles of a simple marketing truth – go where the people are. Full Spectrum Marketing focuses on your audience while blending the core principles of advertising – reach and frequency – to build a comprehensive integrated marketing and communications plan for you, complete with execution and measurement. Whether you need a full marketing plan, or just a great website, we are ready to help you.
Project Panorama
Project Panorama is an elegant and visual WordPress project management and communication plugin. It helps you streamline your process, impress your clients and save time so you can bill more.
AtNetPlus
AtNetPlus continues to be at the forefront of solutions-based offerings including managed services, cyber security, web development, online backup solutions, and hosting services to SMBs. As a company we are committed to helping our clients keep their businesses connected, secure and working.
In-Kind
StickerGiant
StickerGiant prints high-quality stickers and labels. They have the best customer service, quick turnaround times and free custom shapes using state of the art laser cutting. Every sticker has a story. Want to share your story today? They’re waiting to hear from you.
stickergiant.com
34SP.com
34SP.com is a WordPress hosting provider based in Manchester. Focused on exceptional service and support, the entire support team are trained in house, operating out of the UK, 365 days a year. Founded in 2000, 34SP.com has been hosting WordPress accounts since WordPress launched in 2003.
With the 2016 launch of their managed WordPress hosting platform, bringing high performance, reliability and security backed with great customer support they offer one of the UK’s most cost effective, fully-featured WordPress hosting solutions available.
34SP.com is a keen supporter and sponsor of both WordPress and local WordCamps, and a strong advocate of the open source movement.