Sponsors

For over 20 years, Liquid Web has been delivering products, services and support designed specifically for mission-critical sites, stores and applications. Known for high-performance services and exceptional customer support, it owns and manages its own core data centers and provides a diverse range of fully managed hosting offerings, including Managed WordPress, and Managed WooCommerce Hosting. Its recent acquisition of iThemes continues to evolve its service offerings to meet the ever-changing needs of its 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, it is known for secure, reliable, fast, hassle-free hosting, backed by the Most Helpful Humans in Hosting™ (24x7x365 by phone, chat or ticket). Liquid Web  powers content, commerce and potential for SMB entrepreneurs and the designers, developers and digital agencies who create for them. Everything it does is about being that partner you can trust.

For more information, visit www.liquidweb.com,, or subscribe to its blog at www.liquidweb.com/blog.

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. it has:

• 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.

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 percent 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.

Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one 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.

Wordfence is the most popular WordPress security solution, protecting over three 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.

Learn more at https://wordfence.com.

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 page-views 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.

Learn more at https://pantheon.io/.