Below is a list of the current WordCamp Grand Rapids 2013 sponsors. If you’d like to become a sponsor, just click through to our enticing become a sponsor page 🙂
Pillar
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. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.
WiredTree provides Managed VPS and Managed Dedicated Servers to WordPress users worldwide from our Chicago-based datacenter and offices. All servers are backed by 24×7
telephone support, helpdesk with 15 minute average response time, and full service monitoring to ensure maximum uptime and minimum frustration. All servers are fully-optimized and security hardened with firewall out of the box, ready to run. With experience in SSD technology, MariaDB, Memached, WordPress plugins, server optimization, along with many more, WiredTree can take your site’s performance to the next level.
Please visit WiredTree for more information.
Champion
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. Please visit http://DreamHost.com for more information.
Gold
If you use WordPress to build things for other people, we want to make
your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis,
lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the
whip at a large design firm, our aim is to become your go-to source of
information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and
know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make
your living and look great doing it.
You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over
10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. CodePoet.com aims to bring
the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into
one place, for you tap into.
Steelcase helps leading organizations – in business, healthcare and education – create the places that can unlock the promise of their people.
Silver
Mindutopia is a full-service web design and development firm located in Grand Rapids, MI. We produce WordPress websites for a wide array of clients throughout the Midwest. Our bread and butter is building websites that clients can manage easily and efficiently. But we also help clients with photography, social media, e-mail marketing and more. We’d love to hear from you on how we can enhance your digital presence.
Visit us online at mindutopia.com
DesktopServer from ServerPress.com makes it simple to create local wordpress sites in just a matter of a few clicks. With DesktopServer you can design, develop and deploy WordPress solutions quickly and easily. It is the ONLY localhost server that integrates WordPress with Adobe® Dreamweaver®, Panic’s Coda and Diet Coda with WYSIWYG features for theme design and web developer professionals, offers multi-site, import and export (deployment) of archive files such as BackupBuddy, Duplicator, BackWPUp, BackUp WordPress, InfiniteWP & ManageWP, create custom blueprints and a lot more! Save tons of time and even more “brain damage” with DesktopServer!
WooThemes is an international, market leading, bootstrapped business providing a platform to extend standard WordPress-powered websites via a range of innovative themes and plugins. With WooThemes businesses and individuals can get professional WordPress sites launched quickly and affordably.
Find us online:
WooThemes.com
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iThemes Exchange – Simple ecommerce for WordPress
Sell your stuff online in under 5 minutes using a simple, but extendable, interface.
Your products are not blog posts. So we created an experience that makes creating products simple and intuitive. In most ecommerce solutions, things can get pretty complicated pretty quickly. We recognize that not every store has the same need. In Exchange, many features are split into add-ons. This way, you only see what your store needs, making it simple to use and manage.
Made by iThemes
We’ve been building and supporting WordPress tools for 5 years. With our full range of WordPress themes, plugins and training, ecommerce is the next step in providing you with everything you need to build the WordPress web.
We hope you’ll try Exchange and love it.
BackupBuddy – Back up, restore and move WordPress.
Backup
Back up your entire WordPress installation. Widgets, themes, plugins, files and SQL database – the entire package!
Restore
Restore your WordPress site fast. The restore function in BackupBuddy is super simple.
Individual File Restoration
Did you make a bunch of changes to your theme and then decide you want everything back like it was? You can now pinpoint files to restore individually, instead of having to go through a complete site restore!
Migrate
Move a WordPress site to another domain or server easily. If you build custom WordPress sites for clients, this plugin is for you!
Stop worrying about your site, install BackupBuddy today!
iThemes.com/BackupBuddy/
WebDevStudios is a website development company specializing in WordPress powered websites. With a full staff of developers and designers who live and breathe WordPress, we pride ourselves in being WordPress experts. We have the resources to support any client from a single blog to a WordPress Multisite network with thousands of sites to a BuddyPress site with thousands of members. WDS does WordPress!
Accomplice
WPML makes it easy to build and run multilingual WordPress websites. You’ll be able to translate everything in the site, including content, navigation, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 150,000 commercial websites from all over the world. Want to go multilingual? Visit us at WPML.org
Bronze
Orion Group is a WordPress web development and Internet marketing company in Wisconsin. Our goal is to create and maintain affordable websites that are effective in brand-building and attracting new business.
Learn more at www.orionweb.net and follow them on twitter as @theoriongroup
Contact Forms for WordPress Just Don’t Get Any Easier than Gravity Forms
GravityForms is the best form management solution, period. If you’re putting forms on your site, you should be using Gravity Forms. Build and publish your WordPress forms in just minutes. No drudgery, just quick and easy form-building. Select your fields, configure your options and easily embed forms on your WordPress powered site using the built-in tools. That’s way more satisfying (and less fattening) than a peanutty candy bar any day.
Learn more: www.gravityforms.com
In 2004 Vortala began providing website services to chiropractors through its
specialist brand Perfect Patients. Over time, licensed professionals from other
practice disciplines enquired about Vortala’s website services.
The word “vortala” is derived from “vortal” which is defined as a vertical industry
portal. This reflects what Vortala does in serving selected vertical markets (vortals)
with a world-class website design, development and content management service.
Learn more about the difference between a website product and a website service at
www.vortala.com
Blue Sky Sessions is a small team of valiant web professionals fighting against the forces of mediocre web experiences. We are WordPress pros – we love the system because it lets us build amazing looking sites that are simple for clients to manage.
We are also listed in WooTheme’s index of Affiliate Woo Workers – they trust our skills when working with WordPress so you can too!
Visit us online: blueskysessions.com
The Steve Volkers Group was a pioneer in using a WordPress site for Real Estate in the Grand Rapids area. Hiring on developer Luke Rumely early in his career to create a base for his online presence the owner Steve Volker’s business had a solid base to start on for creating websites for developers and homes. The Steve Volkers Group currently builds about 5 to 6 websites a year based on the WordPress Platform, using the CMS to create data and resources for an online audience to use as a starting point for their home search. The Steve Volkers Group is a top sales team in Western Michigan. They continue to grow their online presence every year with top ranking sites like the stevevolkersgroup.com, algerheights.com, thefitzgeraldresidences.com and many, many (many, many) more.
In-Kind
StickerGiant Custom Stickers is proud to be a sponsor of WordCamp Grand Rapids 2013.
A big shout out to all of the amazing volunteers and Grand Rapids community members that make this event possible.
WordPress is more than just software, WordPress is about sharing the things that make us tick and fire us up. This is also the StickerGiant Team mission, we help people share, via stickers, the things that they are passionate about.
We make great custom stickers that tell those stories, so mention WordCamp Grand Rapids when ordering at StickerGiant and get a 10% friends and family discount.
