Huge thanks to our generous sponsors for helping to make WordCamp Kansas City a reality.
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Venue Sponsor
Johnson County Community College Continuing Education
Johnson County Community College Continuing Education has donated the venue for WordCamp Kansas City on Friday, June 28th and Saturday, June 29th.
Established in 1969, JCCC is dedicated to transforming lives and strengthening communities through learning. Continuing Education (CE) courses enhance career development and deepen personal enrichment and can increase your skills and knowledge to boost job productivity and career potential. You do not gain college credit but may earn CEUs (continuing education units), certificates and licensures.
Address: Regnier Center – 12345 College Blvd Overland Park, KS 66210 → Map
Phone Number: (913) 469-8500
Connect with JCCC
- Website – https://www.jccc.edu/ce
- LinkedIn – http://www.jccc.edu/linkedinuniv
- Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/JCCC.ContinuingEd/
- Twitter – http://www.jccc.edu/twitter
- YouTube – http://www.jccc.edu/youtube
- Instagram – http://www.jccc.edu/instagram
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Jetpack
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
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is an open-source eCommerce platform built on WordPress.
Sell anything online with the flexibility and freedom of the world’s most popular CMS.
- 4+ million active installations
- 55+ million downloads
- 450+ extensions to add and extend 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 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.
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
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.
Wordfence
Wordfence is the most popular WordPress security solution, protecting over 3 million sites. It includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress.
Our Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security option available.
Silver
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, 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.
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.
RoseHosting
RoseHosting is a leading Fully Managed VPS hosting provider serving thousands of customers worldwide since 2001. As the first and only web hosting company in the world to offer commercial Linux virtual servers back in 2001, RoseHosting leverages this experience and is still a pioneer on the premium hosting solutions market. The fully-managed support and full root access to the server gives you true freedom to do anything you want on your server, while at the same time providing you with a helping hand 24/7. It’s a unique combination very rarely seen in the hosting industry.
RoseHosting’s dedicated WordPress team specializes in fully managed WordPress Hosting, which includes root access, free migration, 99.99% uptime guarantee, NVMe storage, free backups, and the award-winning fully managed hand-holding 24/7 US-based support (hardening, optimization, security inspection, plugin and theme installation, configuration and troubleshooting, etc…) all included in the price of the hosting plan. Additionally, all this is always done manually and customized according to your specific setup and requirements, because no two WordPress installs are the same and should not be optimized the same way. Many WordPress related and other tutorials are available on our blog.
For more information, please visit https://www.rosehosting.com
On Tap
On Tap designs and develops WordPress sites and offers premium maintenance plans for companies requiring high-level technical support and excellent customer service. We also offer a full range of digital marketing solutions that can take your site to the next level. We are always looking for WordPress lovers to join our team!
Evoke Insurance LLC
Evoke Insures was started by three partners that have a wide and varied background in the real estate, insurance and financial services industries. Their goal is to provide a variety of services and advice to their clients. They believe that their clients are better served if the company can look and advise them on their total financial package starting with their P&C needs.
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.
Bronze
In-Kind Sponsorship
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.
Connect with StickerGiant
- Website – http://stickergiant.com
- Twitter – https://twitter.com/stickergiant
- Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/stickergiant/
Cerber Tech Inc.
Cerber Tech offers a robust security solution you can count on. WP Cerber Security protects WordPress against cyber attacks, malware, and spam. With an automatic malware scanner and integrity checker, you can configure malware removal and file recovery policies. A specialized firewall detects traffic anomalies and blocks malicious activity before it harms your data. A sophisticated anti-spam solution detects bots and checks IP addresses against a real-time database of IP addresses known for disseminating spam, hacker attacks and other forms of malicious activity.
You can rest easy knowing the Cerber Tech team is deliberate about consistently improving WP Cerber Security, and the plugin will continue to be an advanced and comprehensive security solution for years to come.
SEOMike Consulting
SEOMike has been providing SEO and SEM services since 1997. While we love working with our Kansas City SEO clients, we have no problem working with clients around the world. Our approach has always been to do what’s best for the user and then make it good for the search engines, and our level of technical SEO expertise has been pivotal to making our clients succeed. In addition to offering organic SEO services, we also provide SEM/PPC administrative services. SEOMike has administered SEM campaigns since before Google Ads existed. We have the experience required to make campaigns successful when others could not. Contact us today for a no-obligation, no-pressure, no drip-campaign quote, or to setup a time to come by the office and chat about SEO over a few beers. We love SEO and we love our town!
Search Centered Digital Marketing
Thank you to Search Centered Digital Marketing for sponsoring the WordCamp KC 2019 “Tweetwall.”
Search Centered puts SEO at the center of every type of marketing campaign they create, manage and implement for clients of all sizes – from WordPress SEO services to SEO managed WordPress hosting to social media management & marketing.
Connect with Search Centered Digital Marketing
- Website: searchcentered.com
- Newsletter: searchcentered.com/newsletter
- Twitter: @searchcentered
- YouTube
- Facebook: @searchcentered
Sponsoring Attendees
A big THANK YOU to all the Sponsoring Attendees. Take a moment to check out Sponsoring Attendees’ websites, follow them on Twitter, and send them a “thank you” tweet.
Sponsoring Attendees make a small donation on top of their ticket price. This donation goes toward WordCamp KC operations expenses. You too, can become a Sponsoring Attendee.
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Craig Paddockplazadigital.com
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Donna Yadrich@AudreySpiritUSAaudreyspirit.com
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Eric Poe@eric_poeericpoe.com
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Janet Elie@janetmelielaunch4life.com
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Jeff Priceonline-pmo.com
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John Weaver@johnmweaveroutspokenmarketer.com
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Kristin Falkner@KristinCodesWPkristinfalkner.com
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Lisa Bowser@yourdesignagentpointofdeparture.com
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Lisa Woodruff@lisa_m_woodrufffourlightsweb.com
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Mary White@mw4designsMWforDesigns.com
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Pauli Loeffler@CentimentalLadymediaron.com
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Tom HogardTomTheSawyer.net
Interested in sponsoring WordCamp Kansas City this year?
Check out our Call for Sponsors page for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!