Sponsors

Our Sponsors

Without the kind generousity of our sponsors, WordCamp Birmingham would not exist. Please visit these sponsors while you are at camp and say hello to them.

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Pantheon

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!

KnownHost

KnownHost

KnownHost is a privately held web hosting company based in the United States. With customers from over 150 countries we continue to be one of the most recognized hosts in the world with datacenters on the East Coast, West Coast, and Central (Texas). By using state of the art technology and networks we’re able to provide a premium hosting service at an affordable price. With unparalleled uptime, fast professional support, and high performance hosting as our core focus we’re confident you’ll feel at home when hosting with us.

http://www.knownhost.com

WooCommerce

WooCommerce

28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.

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

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

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.

Liquid Web

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.

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GoDaddy

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.

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GreenGeeks

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, automatic install/renewal of Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certificates, 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.

Twitter Handle: @greengeeks
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/greengeeks

HubSpot

HubSpot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading growth platform. Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. Today, over 56,500 customers in more than 100 countries use HubSpot’s award-winning software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. Comprised of Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, and a powerful free CRM, HubSpot gives companies the tools they need to Grow Better. Learn more about HubSpot for WordPress.

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DreamHost

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.

Community Sponsorship

Salter Ferguson

Salter Ferguson is a personal injury firm dedicated to helping victims who have been negligently injured in Birmingham. Our attorneys are experienced and dedicated to offering quality legal representation and personal service in every area of our practice. Together, we have more than 30 years of legal experience to put to work on your case. If you or a loved one has recently been injured, call us today for a free consultation.

Market.us

Market.us

Market.us is an integrated service platform where one can get an exclusive and extensive range of market research solutions. In the ongoing age of digitalisation and automation, data and information have gained crucial importance. To lead the market, it is essential to gain an in-depth perspective of the market. The comprehensive knowledge of ongoing market conditions also offers a firm hold on various trends. It is even more essential to secure a competitive edge in extremely volatile and rapidly growing markets. The team at Market.us deploys a well-organised and perfect blend of tailored research solutions to our clients. In order to bestow best research products, the market intelligence company has a diverse range of expertise, competence, approaches, methodologies, and tools.

Here at Market.us our main objective is to provide exclusive and powerful market insights that mark importance in all commercial businesses. Market.us being a brand research company functions on every existing industry sector like information industry, automobile industry, pharmaceutical industry or any other international domain. All in all, we are syndicated market data providers who develop customised research solutions to meet client’s requirements best.

Ifediba Law Group

Ifediba Law Group

IFEDIBA LAW GROUP, P.C., is a Birmingham, Alabama based leading law firm established in 2004, known nationwide and internationally for aggressive and high-quality legal representation of individuals, families, companies, institutions, countries, and more. Our firm has a combined over 40 year of experience in law practice.

The firm has a broad range of complex litigation expertise, particularly in personal injurywrongful death, airplane accidents, products liability, financial services, antitrust/competition, environmental law, mass torts, consumer protection, and defective products/ products liability. We love what we do, and this passion manifests itself in the dedication we bring to our clients as well as the results we obtain.

Forward Push

Forward Push

Forward Push is an award-winning marketing agency that believes that you don’t have to grow your company alone. Through a team of creative thinkers and analytic problem solvers, Forward Push is ready to challenge the status quo while staying rooted in the research.

The team accomplishes this through specializing in content-driven strategies for small and medium-sized businesses. Based on your unique needs, Forward Push creates a custom strategy that takes account for the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing and looks to future developments. This approach includes website design and development, social media management, blogging, video production, digital advertising and branding.

Through this, Forward Push optimizes your online presence and propels you to your goals by implementing, testing, and refining so your brand is always leading, not following. It’s the Forward Push way. Learn more about our process at forwardpush.com.

Papaya Internet

Papaya Internet

Papaya is an Atlanta-based search marketing consultancy specializing in SEO and Google Ads. Started in 2004, Papaya helps businesses grow by connecting them to potential customers who are searching for their products and services. 

While we work with a variety of website platforms, we love and have extensive experience optimizing WordPress websites.

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Redland Media

Redland Media

Redland Media is a Montgomery-based digital marketing start-up that publishes on-line content as well as provides SEO services to select clients. While we work with multiple platforms, our primary experience is with WordPress. 

WS Form

WS Form

WS Form is a plugin that allows you to build better WordPress forms.

Design and build mobile responsive forms in a single click or use the drag and drop editor to create complex multi-tab forms in just seconds.

For developers, forms built in WS Form are fully compatible with front-end frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation. The HTML output is native to these frameworks and seamlessly dovetails with your website code. WS Form also overcomes the frustration of repeatedly testing forms with its unique browser debug console. A single click automatically populates the form and submits it with different content every time.

WS Form PRO comes standard with all of this functionality plus conditional logic, file uploads, signatures, user tracking, form progress saving, data encryption and more. No extra plugins or coding is required.

Try a free WS Form demo today!

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Sticker Giant

Sticker Giant

StickerGiant is a maker of custom stickers and labels based in Longmont, CO. Every sticker has a story, and they want to help everyone tell their stories with an expression through custom stickers labels.

Publix

Publix

Publix Super Markets, Inc. is an employee-owned, American supermarket chain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. Founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, Publix is a private corporation that is wholly owned by present and past employees and members of the Jenkins family.

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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