Month: January 2020

Tony Le, Solutions Engineer at WP Engine, has a lot to look forward to as a Gold Sponsor of WordCamp Phoenix 2020. Along with it being his first time EVER in Arizona, it will also be his first time giving a WordCamp talk!

And WP Engine provides plenty of opportunity to prepare anyone as a speaker, with their customer responsive and inspired platform, that serves more than 120,000 customers in 140 countries. Offering their exclusive WordPress Digital Experience Platform, WP Engine strives to provide resources and custom solutions to unique customer needs.

Be sure to stop by the WP Engine booth to see what they can do for your business and learn about their recent integrations with HubSpot, FlyWheel, and other solutions that will help you better service your customers. You can also take a few minutes to listen to the interview below and get an overview of what’s going down, including their use of atomic blocks.

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Pantheon is almost as excited to be a gold sponsor of WordCamp Phoenix 2020 as we are to have them! They will be bringing a large team to the WordCamp in an effort to give back to the community through talks, mentoring, sharing information, and especially helping business owners and managers better understand the needs of their clients.

With global availability, and as host to more than 300+ million websites, Pantheon definitely has resources and knowledge to share! One of their current focuses is helping agencies find easier ways to increase sales and improve websites through iteration.

In an attempt to “kill the relaunch” Tara King, Community Developer Manager at Pantheon, explained that one of Pantheon’s goals is to educate developers on better practices. Part of this is, “Trying to help people understand a more agile website workflow,” King said.

Tune in to the video below for tips on how to simplify and improve processes so you can leave the era of 90s development far behind!

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Wordfence is a security plugin that protects WordPress websites with a malware scanner, firewall, and source code validation. Installed on more than 3 million websites, Wordfence has a clear view as global attacks occur, allowing them to block attacks before they occur. With more than 90 million downloads, it is easily one of the most utilized plugins on WordPress.org.

At WordCamps, Wordfence attempts to teach attendees how to “think like a hacker” through lock picking at their booth. The hope is that once attendees consider how easy it is to pick a lock, they may also understand how easily someone could hack into their site through easy passwords or out of date plugins. The goal is that attendees will begin to make better decisions about their site security.

“I think that being proactive instead of reactive really is the name of the game,” explained Tim Cantrell, Wordfence Director of Customer Support. “The bottom line is that if you don’t take some steps to secure your site, there’s nothing we can do to help.”

Get more insight on this crackalackin’ WordCamp 2020 sponsor by watching the interview below!

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Liquid Web brings more than 22 years of web hosting experience to WordCamp Phoenix 2020, offering powerful, blazin’ fast, managed hosting plans for WordPress and WooCommerce.

But that’s not all, the Liquid Web Brand Promise reads: “In this age of technology, we give you more than just the best and widest choice of hosting products. We give you the most helpful humans in hosting.”

With over 30,000 customers in upwards of 150 countries, Liquid Web delivers highly optimized solutions for WordPress customers. Multiple global data centers, top-notch, lighting fast customer support (with a reported response of 59 seconds or less 24/7/365), and cutting-edge technology make Liquid Web a clear choice for WordPress stores and sites requiring scalability.

Liquid Web has created unique hosting bundles to help their customers succeed online. Offering robust features, such as staging that receives data changes from your production site, Liquid Web’s bundled services like Jilt abandoned cart recovery, Glew e-commerce analytics, and Beaver Builder are seriously dope.

In addition to their promise to be the “Most Helpful Humans in Hosting”, Liquid Web is now a Global Sponsor of WordCamp community events in the western region and supports the Arizona WordPress Group’s E-Commerce Meetup. Plus, they are a proud supporter of WordCamp Phoenix 2020!

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As the most popular e-commerce platform for online businesses, WooCommerce powers more than 2 million online stores. With over 5 million active installs, 83 million downloads, and availability in 60 languages, WooCommerce is the da bomb for generating cheddar online. Developed using open-source software, WooCommerce empowers business owners to own and retain their data.

Website owners and developers can customize each store to reflect their vision rather than using a vendor template.

Founded in 2008, WooCommerce’s team of WooNinjas are spread across 58 countries, providing top-notch support, building an extensive suite of plugins to integrate with popular shipping, payment and business services. The highly active project has great code test coverage, documentation and tools for developers to dive into painless, secure and robust payments.

VIDEO: Welcome to WooCommerce

Learn more about WooCommerce.

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WordCamp Phoenix 2020 is not be possible without our stylin’ sponsors! We’re deeply grateful to each community sponsor for making our camp the valuable, affordable, slammin’ weekend it is.

If your company is not listed and you’d like to represent, there is still time to make the list! Please visit our Sponsors Page for details. To date, our 2020 sponsors include the following:

Gold Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Sponsors

• Bluehost
• Nexcess
• LiquidWeb
• WooCommerce
• Jetpack
• GoDaddy
• Wordfence
• WP Engine
• Pantheon
• Green Geeks

Silver Saved By The Bell Sponsors

• HubSpot
• SiteGround
• WPMU DEV

Bronze Boy Meets World Sponsors

• ShowIt
• Yoast Academy

Small Biz The Wonder Years Sponsors

• Javascript for WP
• Premier Web Development
• Aspen Grove Studios
• Elegant Themes
• GoWP
• Mode Effect

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