Our Sponsors
WordCamps are non-profit community run events, all costs are covered by our insanely cheap ticket fees and our amazing sponsors! Sponsors cover over half of the cost of the event, and for this we can’t thank them enough!
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WooCommerce
37% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.
- 1+ million active installations
- 16+ million downloads
- 400+ extensions to add 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 will get you set up and selling fast and scale securely as you grow. Plus your content will be forever yours and customizable down to the finest button color.
Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com.
Jetpack
Transform how you work with your WordPress sites and rest easy knowing they’re always firing on all cylinders. Jetpack connects your site to the global services, community, and support provided by WordPress.com so you can focus on the stuff that matters.
Jetpack automatically shields your site from the unwanted attention of spammers, hackers, and malware, while real-time sync and backup means you don’t have to worry about data loss. Straightforward traffic-building tools help you attract the attention of readers and search engines. Pages and videos are delivered at high speed from a global, ad-free content delivery network.
Jetpack sends new content directly to your subscribers’ inboxes and shows readers related content, helping you increase page views per visitor and boost ad revenue. Whenever you need it, you can rely on priority support from our global team of WordPress experts to ensure a friction-free experience for your visitors — and for you.
Make your site work for you. Get your Jetpack today at Jetpack.com
WP-Engine
WP Engine is the world’s leading WordPress digital experience platform that gives enterprises and agencies the agility, performance, intelligence and integrations they need to drive their business forward faster. WP Engine’s combination of tech innovation and an award-winning team of WordPress experts trusted by over 60,000 companies across over 140 countries to provide counsel and support helps brands create world-class digital experiences. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in San Francisco, California; San Antonio, Texas; London, England; Limerick, Ireland; and Brisbane, Australia.
Conetix
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 WordPress Web Hosting through to advanced fully Managed WordPress Hosting.
VentraIP Australia
VentraIP Australia is the largest privately-owned web hosting provider and domain name registrar in Australia. Their goal is to offer customers of all sizes access to powerful enterprise-grade web hosting services and award-winning 24/7 Australian support, at an affordable price.
VentraIP Australia is 100% Australian owned and operated, and has been a key player in the Australian market for almost a decade now. By providing industry-leading innovation, outstanding customer service, and award-winning technical support it has amassed a growing base of more than 150,000 customers who trust the company with their domain names, web hosting, dedicated email hosting, SSL certificates, and virtual servers.
With the recent move to offer all customers free access to 24/7 Australian phone support, VentraIP Australia has become the most recommended web hosting provider in Australia. Make the move to VentraIP Australia and experience the VIP difference with Australia’s fastest web hosting platform, built for your business and optimized for WordPress.
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The Code Company
The Code Company are an Australian technical agency, specialising primarily in WordPress development. Solving complex technical problems for corporates, publishers and government alike.
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Human Made
Human Made is a WordPress development agency that brings open source to big publishers and enterprise-level clients.
We hire the best people, regardless of location. Our team consists of some of the world’s most respected WordPress developers including WordPress Core lead developers, the lead developer of the WP REST API project, the team lead of the European WordPress Polyglots, and many more.
We are leaders within the WordPress community both as a company and through the individual efforts of our team members. We’re highly active in contributing to all aspects the WordPress project and respected worldwide for our community standing.
We’re looking for senior engineers in Asia-Pacific. Come join us!
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GoDaddy
GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.
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.
Prospress
Prospress build internet things on WooCommerce to help people prosper with WordPress.
Our flagship product, WooCommerce Subscriptions, is used to sell everything from small batch, award winning coffee to eco-friendly craft boxes for kids. It’s used to sell energy food to elite athletes, salsa dancing lessons, carbon offsets, pet food, socks, soap, and dental supplies that also help improve the oral health of people who can’t access the dentist.
We’re proud to create open-source software used by thousands of inventive entrepreneurs.
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WPML
WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 500,000 commercial websites from all over the world.
More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org
We are looking for talent. If you are a smart programmer you are welcome to contact us here: http://wpml.org/home/were-hiring/.
iCreate Solutions
iCreate is a creative agency of 10 designers and developers on Brisbane’s Bayside. iCreate love’s WordPress, and build a lot of bespoke websites, apps and web services that use WordPress.
Look out for the iCreate dev team at the bar – they love both technology and beer, you’ll find them talking tech with everyone over a nice cold one at the after party.
Yoast
Yoast helps you to get the most out of your website! You might know our Yoast SEO plugin; with over 7.5 million active installs, Yoast SEO is one of the most popular WordPress plugins worldwide.
At Yoast, we believe in holistic SEO: not just one aspect of a website, but all aspects are important and should, therefore, be as good as possible. All awesome websites have three things in common: they’re easy to use, contain the right information, and they’re fast and reliable. The bonus is, that if you do all that right, a website becomes easier to find as well!
Our products help people create remarkable sites. We offer plugins that make optimising websites as easy as pie. By subscribing to our SEO Care package, we can directly help customers make a better site. Last but not least, we have online courses and eBooks that give people the skills and the knowledge needed to start improving their site.
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Linux Australia
Linux Australia is the peak body for Open Source communities in Australia. Linux Australia represents approximately 5000 Australian users and developers of Free Software and Open Technologies, and facilitates internationally-renowned events including linux.conf.au — Australasia’s grassroots Free and Open Source Software Conference.
WordCamp Brisbane is running under the auspices of Linux Australia, we’re extremely grateful for the service which Linux Australia provides the open source communities of Australia and we’re proud to be an Linux Australia Event.
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Eye Catcha
If you are looking for fun innovative ways to get your brand some better exposure in the market place, the guys at Eye Catcha Promo Products & Print will show you the way. Always on the lookout for something different, they have been working with web design and graphic design houses for over 20 years to help their clients get their name out there. Branded flash drives to mobile phone pop socks, ultra-thin mouse mats to printed clothing. They are the official suppliers this year of the WordCamp t-shirts and will be attending the event.
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StickerGiant
StickerGiant is an e-commerce company that prints custom stickers and product labels. They make it fast and easy to order with quality guaranteed. Every sticker has a story. What’s yours?
Interested in sponsoring WordCamp this year?
Check out our Call for Sponsors post for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!