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Bluehost supports WordPress community events worldwide

We can’t thank Bluehost enough for their continued support as a sponsor for the global WordPress community! Their support of WordPress community events around the globe at our Gold level!

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.

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Thanks to Jetpack for sponsoring community events worldwide

What would we do without our sponsors? We’re so grateful to Jetpack for sponsoring WordPress community events all around the globe at the Gold level in 2022! Jetpack’s support helps make local community events (like WordPress meetup groups and WordCamps) better for WordPress enthusiasts and easier to organize for our wonderful group of hardworking volunteers.

Transform how you work with your WordPress sites: Jetpack connects your site to the global services, community, and support provided by WordPress.com. Focus on the substance of your site, not the software.

Jetpack security tools automatically shield your site from spammers, hackers, and malware, while real-time syncing and backup means never worrying about data loss. Traffic-building tools like easy social sharing help you attract readers and search engines, and pages delivered from a high-speed, global content delivery network mean those readers never bounce because of a slow-loading site.

Jetpack’s Affiliate program gives you 20% every time you sell Jetpack to a customer or client — with unlimited referrals, the sky’s the limit!

Whether you’re one person with a website or an agency with a dozen clients, Jetpack helps you grow. Make your site work for you at Jetpack.com.

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WordPress.com joins the WordPress global community sponsorship program in 2022

We couldn’t be happier to welcome WordPress.com to the WordPress global community sponsorship program in 2022! They’re sponsoring at the Gold level supporting official WordPress community events across the globe.

WordPress.com offers managed hosting – a service that is 100% dedicated to hosting WordPress open source software for optimized performance. Managed hosting is a great option for people who don’t want to deal with the backend technical operations of running a website. You get all the power of WordPress, professionally managed and hassle-free, including:

  • Speed: WordPress.com earned Top Tier status in the WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks review with perfect 100% uptime on both monitors, zero errors across both load tests, and the fastest WP bench of any company in any price tier this year.
  • Powerful, built-in SEO: All of our themes are optimized for search engines, which means they are designed to make it easy for the Googlebot (and other search engines) to crawl through them and index your content.
  • Ironclad security: Our systems and security teams are vigilant about protecting your site and personal data. That’s why we’re trusted by some of the most high-profile sites on the web.
  • Hands-on support: Get world-class dedicated support from our happiness engineers, educational courses, and webinars.
  • Peace of mind: We make it easy to get started and maintain your site with automatic version updates and real-time silent backups, so you’ll never worry about losing your site content.
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Nexcess joins the WordPress global community sponsorship program in 2022

We couldn’t be happier to welcome Nexcess to the WordPress global community sponsorship program in 2022! They’re sponsoring at the Gold level, supporting official WordPress community events around the globe.

Nexcess provides a fully managed, high-performance, and best-in-class cloud solution built to optimize WordPress and WooCommerce sites and stores. For over 20 years, our holistic, hands-on approach to managed products and solutions has provided users with tools that help them create better websites and e-commerce stores along with expert, on-demand support. By removing the stress of managing the day-to-day operations of their site or store, we afford our customers the ability to PRESS forward and focus more on what inspires them.

Whether you’re a small business owner, designer, developer, or a small to medium-sized agency, Nexcess has a solution to help you and your business succeed.

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WooCommerce sponsors WordPress community events across the globe

We’d like to thank WooCommerce for their continuing support by participating in the WordPress global sponsorship program! By generously sponsoring at the Gold level across the globe, WooCommerce helps make local community events (like WordPress meetup groups and WordCamps) better for WordPress enthusiasts and easier to organize for our wonderful group of hardworking volunteers.

WooCommerce is a customizable, open-source eCommerce platform built on WordPress. 

Sell anything online with the flexibility and freedom of the world’s most popular CMS.

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 gets you set up and selling fast, scaling securely as you grow.

Your content is forever yours and customizable down to the button color. Plus you’re joining a supportive, global community of developers and store owners.

Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of Jetpack and WordPress.com.

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Weglot joins the WordPress global community sponsorship program in 2022

We couldn’t be happier to welcome Weglot to the WordPress global community sponsorship program in 2022! They’re sponsoring at the Gold level, supporting official WordPress community events across the globe.

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Weglot is a WordPress multilingual plugin to translate and display your website in multiple languages. It provides a fast first layer of automated translation which you can easily edit yourself or by adding teammates, or collaborate with pro-translators through the Weglot dashboard. 

Trusted by more than 50,000 website owners and developers and with a 5-star rating on the WordPress directory (1000+ reviews) – you can have a multilingual website up and running in minutes. 

Key benefits include: 

  • Simple and quick set-up – Multilingual SEO best practices (translated URLs & metadata)
  • Compatibility with any Themes and Plugins (incl. WooCommerce)
  • Automatic and human translations
  • A unique dashboard with an ‘in context editor’, easily edit translations & invite teammates to collaborate on projects
  • Expert support: a fully dedicated technical support team at your disposal
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WP Y’all has been Postponed until the Spring

The WordCamp Birmingham Organizing Team has unanimously decided to postpone WP Y’all until a future date in April or May when we can safely hold the event for our attendees.

See our full announcement on our site.

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Call For Speakers for WordCamp Europe 2022 in Porto is Open

Call For Speakers for WordCamp Europe (2-4 June, Porto, Portugal) is open and we are inviting you to apply!

Whether you have given thousands of talks in front of a large audience or you have moderate experience in public speaking, if you have the practical knowledge to share — please, do it, apply to speak!

WordCamp Europe organizers will soon be hosting an online Q&A session where you can ask questions and get guidance on how to raise the chance for your application to be selected. Keep an eye out on the WCEU website to be notified of the same.

We look forward to seeing your application soon!

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