Category: Sponsors

Finally, the day before WCAKL19 is here – and it isn’t without a lot of hard work and HUGE support from our friends from Bluehost, Jetpack and WooCommerce. Continually supporting WordCamp’s all over the world, these three sponsors contribute the lion’s share of support for WCAKL19.

It purely wouldn’t be the amazing event it is today without the support of these three giants, so please share the love with our gold sponsors!

• 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.

• 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.

Our silver sponsors are a very special breed of sponsors. They are apart of the global sponsorship team, who help WordCamp’s all around the world get funding and help make them the events they are today!

From the bottom of all our hearts at WordCamp Auckland – and the wider WordPress New Zealand community, we say thank you to our silver sponsors.

• 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.

  Check out the Free Tools

• 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.

• Paystation

  

  Paystation by Trade Me helps you take secured payments online – you don’t even need a website. 

  • Secure payments hosted on your website, or ours, and using eCommerce shopping carts. 
  • Get paid even if you don’t have a website or app. You can take payments yourself by using Paystation’s secure web portal.
  • Paystation can also provide you with a gateway solution that’s a little more tailor-made to your needs.

  Paystation has simple pricing, offers a range of major international currencies, and has great local support. Trade Me liked Paystation so much they bought the company.

• WP Net

  

  WP NET is New Zealand’s first 100% dedicated Managed WordPress web host. We provide high-performance, NZ-based hosting services and friendly, responsive support from WordPress Experts.

  WP NET offers cost-effective shared-server hosting and fully managed single-tenant cloud servers for businesses needing the next-level of performance, security and scalability.

  Our Managed WordPress service includes all the extras you expect from a managed host, including managed updates, automatic backups, improved security, malware scanning, uptime monitoring and more.

  Visit the WP NET website: https://wpnet.nz

Two very important parts of a WordCamp are a speakers dinner and the venue. Y’all might know that our venue is provided by the amazing Auckland GridAKL @ Lysaght Building, known as the Innovation Centre.

GridAKL – venue sponsorship

GridAKL do so much for WordPress in Auckland, with continued support throughout the year for FREE, yes absolutely FREE venue hire for meetups and WordCamp 2017 and 2019. We don’t have enough emoji ❤ to thank them, so please – leave a nice review on google maps for them and share their free Tech Cafe space with friends and colleagues to say thanks.

Learn more about them at https://gridakl.com/.

WPDonuts – speakers dinner

WordCamp actually starts on the night before the start date – with a speakers dinner sponsored by WPDonuts, the speakers dinner is a chance for all our speakers to get together, meet each other and get comfortable before the event.

WPDonuts is a WordPress-powered blog all about WordPress, created for WordPress users (both beginner and pro alike) everywhere. It combines tips, showcases, reviews and all things WordPress into a single site.

Read more on the WPDonuts blog.