WordCamp’s are non-profit community run events, all costs are covered by our insanely cheap ticket fee’s and our amazing sponsors!
Sponsors cover over half of the cost of the event, and for this we can’t thank them enough!
Platinum
Jetpack can supercharge your self-hosted site with a suite of the most powerful WordPress.com features.
As the Braintree_PayPal developer and startup relations team, Braintree_dev works directly in the field to educate and support the community about the Braintree and PayPal APIs and SDKs. With unique programs including BattleHack, Startup Blueprint and Start Tank, Braintree_dev engages with the community to mentor, support and enable seamless commerce experiences through easy integrations around the globe.
Gold
Human Made specialise in high-end WordPress development & consultancy for Enterprise & Big Media. Typically involving a high degree of custom development with a focus on performance & security at scale. Each project provides a different challenge. Human Made have been a WordPress.com VIP partner since 2012, with a proven track record in dealing with big clients.
After Party Sponsor
WooCommerce is the world’s most popular eCommerce platform. Powered by WordPress and built by WooThemes, the goal of WooCommerce is to allow you to sell anything online – beautifully. You can integrate with payment processors, easily manage shipping methods and inventory, set up flexible tax rules, and view detailed store reports all from your WordPress dashboard.
With a free core platform and hundreds of premium add-ons available, WooCommerce allows you to set up an online shop with functionality catered to your store’s needs.
Silver
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.
Prospress Inc. build WooCommerce extensions to help people prosper with WordPress.
Their flagship extension, WooCommerce Subscriptions, helps people sell subscriptions to everything from small batch, award winning coffee to eco-friendly craft boxes for kids. It’s used to sell energy food to elite athletes; fishing tackle without the hassle; salsa dancing lessons; carbon offsets; nail polish; pet food; socks; soap and environmentally responsible dental supplies that help improve the oral health of people who can’t access or afford the dentist.
More than 8 million people and businesses around the world use MailChimp. Our features and integrations allow you to send marketing emails, automated messages, and targeted campaigns. And our detailed reports help you keep improving over time.
Conetix has for over 10 years helped countless businesses and developers build their own customised web hosting solution. Using a hands on business approach and years of experience, Conetix delivers a tailored, solid hosting environment that meets web professionals needs at every level.
With a continued focus on superior hardware and intelligent automation systems, Conetix is able to provide enterprise grade solutions ranging from basic web hosting through to advanced application and Managed WordPress Hosting.
Shortie Designs is a Brisbane digital design studio that specialises in custom made WordPress websites and online strategies. Taking a strategic and user focussed approach, they harness the power of UX, design, and web development to create online solutions that get results. Working with small to medium business, their clients include, Tourism Tropical North Queensland, QUT and Goodlife Health Clubs.
OpenSRS is the wholesale unit of Tucows, exclusively focused on the needs of resellers. Through a network of over 14,000 web hosts, Internet service providers and Web companies, OpenSRS manages domain names, email addresses, digital security products and web publishing tools for millions of end users worldwide. We offer white-label, brandable end-user interfaces, easy-to-use management tools, extensive technical documentation, scalable, reliable systems, competitive pricing and outstanding customer support.
You can follow them on Twitter.
Speakers Dinner Sponsor
iCreate is a studio full of designers, developers and marketers on Brisbane’s Bay side. We’re full service agency offering services across both the traditional and digital spheres of marketing. (Yes – traditional is still a thing). Oh, and we love WordPress!
Bronze
WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.
WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 400,000 commercial websites from all over the world.
More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org
Stunning website? What about your content?
We craft content for websites, blogs, newsletters and social media.
“In 2014, 86% of B2B marketers used content marketing, and 70% of them are creating more content than they did one year ago*” *Ref Content Marketing Institute, 2014
It’s essential to get it right first time – and that means a solution tailored to you. Not Bob or Betty. You. We will help you identify the best possible content marketing solution that will fit well with your team, culture and customers. Our combined experience ensures that you get the right service, at the right budget, at the right time. And because we get it right, we have happy clients.
When it comes to marketing and communications, we realise it’s tempting to ‘do it yourself’. But that takes time and while you may well do a reasonable job, is it the best use of your time?
Content matters. Get it done. Cornerstone Communications consultants all have a minimum of 10 years’ experience in their field. Most have more. We can help you with:
- Marketing strategies
- Content marketing
- Social media
- Graphic design
- Website design and content
- Newsletters
- Blogs
- Editing
Visit www.cornerstonecommunications.com.au for content packages.
SiteGround, with over 11 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 3 different data centers across the world, are optimized for ultimate WordPress speed and security and they provide many goodies for the WordPress fans – automatic updates for the core WordPress and its plugins, WordPress SuperCacher for ultimate speed acceleration, staging tool for the coders and unique WordPress autoinstaller for the starting users – all crafted in-house by the SiteGround team. And still they do not forget the importance of the good old standard hosting features like the domain name registration, the email service, control panel and the reasonable pricing. They also have a support team that is not only available 24/7 by phone, chat and ticketing, but consists of WordPress enthusiasts who will help you with specific WordPress issues. SiteGround has been actively involved with the community speaking, supporting and attending variou WordCamps around the world and by sponsoring WordCamp Brisbane they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.
Matter Solutions is a Brisbane-based web design, SEO and AdWords agency focused on creating high performing WordPress websites and digital strategies for businesses. With a passion for beautiful design, strategy and results, the team love building websites that drive traffic and convert visitors. Matter Solutions have a wealth of experience completing a range of responsive WordPress websites for notable clients across Brisbane.
SitePoint is a world leading publisher and community for web developers and designers. Founded by Mark Harbottle and Matt Mickiewicz, our mission is to deliver fundamental knowledge, new ideas, and emerging concepts to web professionals across the globe. For practical tutorials, articles, books, courses, and our Forums, if it’s got anything to do with making incredible internet things — we’ve got you covered.
You can follow SitePoint on Twitter.
Ticketing
Eventarc is an Australian based event registration and ticketing system. Support local and try Eventarc for your next event!
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