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Design Sponsor: YIKES, Inc.

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YIKES, Inc. is a women-owned company dedicated to green business practices. Since 1996, YIKES has been a socially responsible business observing the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit. YIKES is committed to building a more socially, environmentally and financially sustainable local economy.

YIKES is a member of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, the Independence Business Alliance and is a B Corporation member. YIKES has also earned and is approved to be listed as a green business in their National Green Pages™ directory.

The YIKES office is powered by 100% renewable electricity through the Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania. Most of the paper materials used by YIKES are recycled and printed with soy ink. YIKES is also a 100% Replanted office. YIKES employees donate a percentage of YIKES’ profits to non-profit organizations every year.

Tracy over at YIKES designed our Halloween themed website and badges this year and we appreciate all her help and be sure to catch her session, Custom Post Types for Right-Brained Folks at 11:15am in the Design Track!

Gold Sponsor Spotlight: Code Poet

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If you use WordPress to build things for other people, Code Poet 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, their 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.

Silver Sponsor: iThemes Builder

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We are proud to announce that for the 3rd year in a row iThemes is sponsoring WordCamp Philly!  We are so grateful for their continued support to the Philly WordPress community and helping to make our event great!

iThemes is an awesome WordPress focused company that been around since 2008 with an office in Edmond, Oklahoma and employees around the world working hard to make your life easier. They are real people who have a lot of fun working together, building tools to help you build awesome web sites.

Builder is a theme framework from the folks at iThemes. Builder’s Layout Engine allows you to quickly and easily create any page layout you like without having to be a coder. With more than 45 child themes (and more always in development) it’s easy to find a design that fits your website. To customize your theme, you can use Builder’s Style Manager to tweak the design to your liking, all without ever touching a line of code. Builder also has built-in SEO options, to make sure your site can be easily found by search engines. If you are looking for a way to customize your website, but aren’t overly tech-savvy, we highly recommend checking out the Builder theme framework!

The iThemes team isn’t going to be able to make it out to the event this year, but they would like to give YOU their tickets to the event! iThemes is giving away 2 free full access tickets to WordCamp Philly 2012! As you may have heard, we have already sold out of full access tickets, so this is your last chance to get one!  To be in the running for one of the 2 iThemes full access passes just leave a comment below letting us know why you want to attend WordCamp Philly.

*You must leave a comment by October 14th, 11:59pm Eastern time to be eligible. Winners will be chosen and notified on Monday, October 15th.

 

Last Chance to get a ticket WITH a T-Shirt

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Last year’s WordCamp Philly shirt

On Tuesday, October 9th we will be sending in our t-shirt order which means Monday, October 8th is the last day that you can buy a ticket and be guaranteed one of our awesome WordCamp Philly 2012 t-shirts.  Be sure to go register for your WordCamp Philly 2012 ticket today and assure your t-shirt will be there waiting for you when you check in! As of now we still have about 50 Weekend Full Access tickets and 100 Saturday Admission tickets. Be sure to get your ticket ASAP because we are sure to sell out soon!

A big thank you to Aina Cherry-Moye over at Cherry Global Design who designed this years Halloween themed t-shirt!

Thank you to Hi-Voltage Productions out in Harrisburg, PA who is printing our shirts!

The WordCamp Philly 2012 Schedule is Up!

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We are happy to announce that our speaker schedule for Saturday is up!

Saturday’s conference will include four tracks of User, Power User, Developer and Designer. We worked with our speakers to create a diversified schedule that has something for everyone attending. Each of the session on the schedule is connected to the session detail page so you can find out a little more about each session topic and plan your schedule accordingly.

Along with the 4 tracks, we have included a few special panels throughout the day. The first panel will include security experts Dre Armeda and Tony Perez . The audience will have the chance to ask these experts your most pressing security questions.

The second panel will include four members of our community that are making a living through WordPress. This panel will cover running a business around WordPress and the highs and lows of a WordPress focused business.

You can find the full schedule here.

Platinum Sponsor Spotlight – WP Engine

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For the second year in a row we are proud to have WP Engine as a platinum sponsor! WP Engine is the Premiere  Managed WordPress hosting company and they offer fast WordPress hosting that is beloved by hundreds of bloggers and website owners. They work with huge, popular sites, including HTC, Foursquare, SoundCloud, and VM Ware, as well as small business owners who are focused on providing amazing customers experience. WP Engine has a suite of developer tools like a staging area, and automatic nightly backups to simplify development on WordPress Perhaps best of all is our tech support, where only WordPress experts troubleshoot your support questions.

WP Engine is grateful to the WordCamp Philly Organizers, and is proud to be able to support the local WordPress community. They would love to have you stop by the WP Engine booth on Saturday to meet you and learn about what you’ve built in WordPress. They are also offering all the attendees of WordCamp Philly a free account for life on WP Engine. You heard that right, WPE is giving ALL WordCamp Philly attendees FREE HOSTING FOR LIFE!

Hosting includes:

  • 1 WordPress Install
  • 25,000 visits / month
  • Unlimited Data Transfer
  • 10 GB Local storage
  • Unlimited LargeFSTMStorage
  • Daily Automated Backups
  • Stage & Deploy with Git
  • Managed Upgrades

You can sign up for your free hosting plan at the WP Engine booth all day Saturday and be sure to pick up one of the new WPE fall t-shirts!

And there’s more!

What if you’ve seen the WP Engine team at a previous WordCamp, and already have one of WP Engine’s classic (and now discontinued) T-Shirts? That’s awesome! They would love to see you again and hear how your sites are doing and what your latest projects involve. They also have a gift for you. Everyone who drops by the WP Engine booth  at WordCamp Philly wearing a vintage WP Engine t-shirt, will receive a VIP gift (while they last) as a thank you for being a part of our family and choosing our hosting platform.

We would like to give a huge THANK YOU to WP Engine for not only sponsoring WordCamp Philly, but for also hooking up all our attendees with so much awesome, free stuff! Please be sure to stop by the WP Engine booth at WordCamp on Saturday to thank them for all they do for the WordPress community!

Get your WordCamp Philly Ticket NOW!

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Great news everyone! WordCamp Philly tickets are officially on sale! Click here to reserve your ticket today!

We are offering two different tickets for our event:
Weekend Full-Access Ticket This ticket gets you admission to Saturday’s full day conference, the Saturday night after party and Sunday’s half day Developer Day.
Saturday Admission Ticket This ticket is for Saturday events only. You get admission to Saturday’s full day conference and the Saturday night after party.

Calling all Sponsors! We still have sponsorship slots available if you are interested in helping out WordCamp Philly with a sponsorship.

Still haven’t decided if you would like to speak? Hurry up and get your speaker application in because we will be reviewing applications and begin filling in the schedule NEXT WEEK!

WordCamp Philly is just 7 weeks away! We can’t wait to see you all there!

Support the WordCamp Community by Becoming a Sponsor!

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WordCamp Philly 2012 planning is well underway! We have finalized a few of the major aspects of the event and tickets will be going on sale very soon!  Now, we would like to reach out to YOU!

Has WordPress enriched your life or business? Do you love the local Philadelphia WordPress community and hope to see it grow? Would you like to show your support for WordPress? If you answered yes, we would like to ask you to help make WordCamp Philly truly awesome by sponsoring the event!

WordCamps are simply not possible without the generous sponsorships provided by companies and individuals in the community. Joining this list shows your support for the community and gets your brand in front of a captive and targeted audience. Sponsoring WordCamp Philly is really an outstanding investment for you to consider.

Thank you in advance for all your support! Your sponsorships go a long way in helping make a great event! Visit our sponsorship page to see what is included in our sponsorship packages. If you have any questions feel free to contact us directly!

WordCamp Philly Has A New Design!

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We’re very excited to launch the new WordCamp Philly website design! As you can tell WordCamp Philly will be a Halloween themed event this year! We plan on making this year’s event extra spooky with Halloween themed presentations, costume contests with awesome prizes, and much more to be announced in the coming weeks!

We are hard at working organizing the event which will be even bigger and better than last year! If you are interested in Volunteering please fill out our Volunteer Application.

Major props to YIKES, Inc and WDS for helping design and build the new website.