featured | WordCamp NYC 2014

We’d like to thank all of our sponsors for helping to make this the best WordCamp NYC ever! Without their generosity, an event like WordCamp wouldn’t be possible.

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WordPress.com VIP

We know WordPress. As the operators of WordPress.com, the biggest WordPress site on the web, we know the secrets, tips, and tricks to help WordPress shine at scale. All the freedom of open source software. All the features, scalability, and security of our WordPress.com VIP platform. We’re a global company dedicated to making WordPress work better for our clients and users.

Fifth Avenue

Bluehost

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.

Media Temple

From its inception in 1998, (mt) Media Temple has been on a mission to help people and businesses succeed online.

Over 125,000 customers in 100 countries now rely on Media Temple’s tools for domain registration, web hosting, business applications, virtual servers, and other cloud services to power more than 1.5 million websites. With 200 dedicated, U.S.-based employees, Media Temple takes pride in our 24/7 customer support. Our customers range from everyday people to top bloggers, creative professionals, and small businesses, as well as large enterprises like Starbucks, Adidas, Samsung, and Toyota.

More information can be found anytime on the web at http://mediatemple.com or on Twitter @MediaTemple.

WiredTree

WiredTree provides Managed VPS and Managed Dedicated Servers to WordPress users worldwide from our Chicago-based data center and offices. Every WT server is backed by 24×7 telephone support, ticket support with 15 minute average response times, and is fully managed and monitored by WiredTree to maximize uptime and minimize frustration. All servers come ready-to-run with cPanel/WHM and are optimized and security hardened with firewall and anti-spam out of the box. With experience in SSD technology, MariaDB, Memcached, WordPress plugins, server optimization, and LiteSpeed Web server, WiredTree can take your site’s performance to the next level.

NorthPoint Digital

Headquartered in New York, NorthPoint Digital has been delivering highly scalable technology and design solutions to transform user experiences in a constantly evolving digital landscape. As a WordPress.com V.I.P. Featured Partner, we have the expertise to tackle big challenges, which helps us build and launch compelling solutions for our clients. We couple our deep understanding of WordPress with specific domain and vertical market experience. Our expertise spans the entire lifecycle of the WordPress platform from strategy, planning, and adoption right through to blogs, integrations, mobile apps, content management and other content and community solutions. Our team works with clients such as Condé Nast, Hearst, Forbes, Availity, The Heritage Foundation, Christie’s, Essence, InStyle, Siegel+Gale, Shaw Media, and Sony Music. We work hard to make WordPress work smarter for your organization. More information is available at http://www.northpointdigital.com/expertise/wordpress.

BizPulse

BizPulse is a reporting app that helps manage client expectations and forecast your cash flow. If you have ever shocked clients with higher than expected invoices, BizPulse helps prevent that situation and preserve your client relationship. If you have ever walked the fine line with cash flow or wondered if you would have enough revenue to make payroll and other business expenses, BizPulse helps overcome this stress and provides actionable intelligence to manage and predict your cash flow more effectively. If you have ever wondered what your staff is doing or if they are working on the most important tasks at any given moment, BizPulse helps you manage and optimize those resources more effectively. In short, BizPulse helps you keep your finger on the pulse of your business. Please go to BizPulse.com and give us your feedback.

Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a premier media company renowned for producing the highest quality content for the world’s most influential audiences. Attracting 95 million consumers across its industry-leading print, digital and video brands, the company’s portfolio includes some of the most iconic titles in media: Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Brides, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Details, Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Wired, W, Lucky, Golf Digest, Golf World, Teen Vogue and Ars Technica.

WebKite

WebKite for WordPress is a free plugin that streamlines the creation of embeddable, filterable lists on any WordPress page. This can be a restaurant menu that is filterable by diet, and type of dish, or sortable by price, or a product inventory that can be filtered by brand or type of product. Keeping this data up to date is as simple as updating the information in a unique Google Spreadsheet. We’re continually adding new list types, options, and features to make publishing interactive lists and data dead simple. For more information about publishing data and creating filterable content visit WebKite.com.

Madison Avenue

DreamHost

DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites and apps hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of Web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects, and the cloud computing service DreamCompute. More information can be found at http://dreamhost.com.

Code Poet

If you use WordPress to build things for other people, Code Poet wants to make your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis, lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the whip at a large design firm, Code Poet’s aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make your living and look great doing it.

You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over 10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. codepoet.com aims to bring the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into one place, for you to tap into.

WP Engine

WP Engine is the premium managed platform for websites and applications built with WordPress. WP Engine delivers the fastest, most reliable, and most secure web experience. Businesses large and small rely on WP Engine’s exceptional customer service team specializing in quickly solving technical problems, and creating a world-class customer experience.

Park Avenue

WPML

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

Disqus

Disqus is a free service that makes it easy for anyone to create or participate in an online community. Our magic is in connecting people to stuff that’s worth talking about.

Alley Interactive

Alley Interactive is a web development firm that tackles complex technological challenges facing top digital publishers and content producers. The team has an extensive background working with major media companies and has launched some of the largest websites for leading publishers.

Headquartered in New York, the firm uses open source technology to craft bold and inventive advertising, editorial and product solutions. The team works with clients such as the New York Post, The New Republic, Digiday, Kaiser Family Foundation, Sportsnet, Capital New York, Le Blogue by Nicole Miller and National Review Online. More information is available at www.alleyinteractive.com.

nRelate

nRelate is a leading content discovery platform offering the highest level of quality control to publishers, and engaged audiences, around the Web. Their unique suite of features drives a finely-tuned content experience that gives publishers full editorial discretion, and audiences what they want. Targeted, relevant, real-time content recommendations ‘You May Also Like’ serve up 4BN impressions to 500M readers a month, across a network of over 100,000K publishers.

Pantheon

Pantheon is a professional-grade tool for those who practice the art of website development for a living. Our platform uses cutting-edge technology to let developers focus on building great things instead of how to scale them. Set your website free, GetPantheon.com

Flywheel

Flywheel is a managed WordPress hosting platform built specifically for designers and creative agencies. Flywheel makes it simple to build, launch, and manage client sites with its easy-to-use dashboard built from the ground up for the modern web designer. With nightly backups, blazing-fast load times, WordPress-specific security, and an awesome support team full of WordPress developers, Flywheel helps thousands of designers across the world launch projects every day.

PushUp

PushUp effortlessly connects your WordPress site to our website push notification service so that you can selectively deliver on-demand notifications right to your visitor’s desktops as you update your content. Be the first to deliver updates to your readers, and drive them back to your website, instead of context and conversion stripping feed readers.

All you need is an account at pushupnotifications.com, so that you can effortlessly and reliably deliver desktop notifications using our high scale push delivery infrastructure.

Use the code “WordCampNYC2014″ between now and the end of WordCamp NYC to save 33% off sign up: $9.99 includes unlimited notifications for the first 30 days, and up to 100 unique push notifications each month for life (more on pricing here).

PushUp currently supports Safari Push Notifications on OS X Mavericks; support for additional browsers and services is coming very soon.

Real-time analytics. Monitor engagement, as it happens. How many eligible visitors accepted or declined notifications? How many subscribers do you have?
Pay as your grow. Pay for what you need, when you need it, so increased engagement never interrupts your service. No subscribers? No fee. Tightening your belt? Don’t click push, don’t pay PushUp.
For WordPress, by Makers of WordPress. Designed, tested, and engineered by 10up, an agency with 25+ core contributors on staff. You won’t find gaudy ads or attention stealing buttons; in fact, we think you’ll forget that PushUp wasn’t part of WordPress.
Built for scale, battle tested by big names. Vetted by WordPress.com VIP, and already running like a champ on sites like 9to5mac.com, the world’s most popular Apple news blog, Deadline.com, and Edelman.com. We’ve already delivered over 18 million notifications, including more than 500,000 notifications in a single day.
No extra software necessary. We leverage technology built right into the browser and operating system, beginning with Safari on OS X Mavericks. Your readers simply accept a notification request – that only shows up the first time they visit – and they will start receiving notifications. Even when their browser is closed.

Muut

Muut is a modern, beautiful, and responsive forum and commenting system that you can embed on your own site and style to your liking. The Muut guys set out to bring forums and commenting out of the UX stone age and make them cool again. Any site will benefit from an active community, and starting one with Muut takes just seconds.

Gravity Forms

The most powerful form solution available for WordPress. Over a million WordPress sites are already using Gravity Forms to power contact forms, order forms, surveys, quizzes, and more! Is yours?

Broadway

YIKES, Inc

YIKES, Inc. is a web design and development company located in the vibrant Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia. YIKES specializes in custom WordPress theme and plugin development, site maintenance, eCommerce, custom-built web-based applications and more. In addition to building great websites, YIKES is dedicated to sustainable business practices by observing the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit. YIKES is committed to building a more socially, environmentally and financially sustainable local economy.

Tadpole Collective

Tadpole Collective is made of five WordPress aficionados in New York City. Since 2012 we have provided support and development services to individuals, businesses and nonprofits, becoming especially known for our work with CiviCRM. As a workers’ self-directed enterprise and a WordPress shop, we have a strong belief in open-source software, collaborative effort and empowering the individual user. Look for us in the help desk at the monthly WPNYC meetup (every 3rd Tuesday!), or online at tadpole.cc.

AffiliateWP

AffiliateWP provides a complete affiliate management system for your WordPress website that seamlessly integrates with all major WordPress e-commerce and membership platforms. We aim to provide everything you need in a simple, clean, easy to use system that you will love to use.

ServerPress.com

DesktopServer from ServerPress.com makes it simple to create local wordpress sites in just a matter of a few clicks. With DesktopServer you can design, develop and deploy WordPress solutions quickly and easily. It is the ONLY localhost server that integrates WordPress with Adobe® Dreamweaver®, Panic’s Coda and Diet Coda with WYSIWYG features for theme design and web developer professionals, offers multi-site, import and export (deployment) of archive files such as BackupBuddy, Duplicator, BackWPUp, BackUp WordPress, InfiniteWP & ManageWP, create custom blueprints and a lot more! Save tons of time and even more “brain damage” with DesktopServer!

Graf-X Unlimited

Graf-X Unlimited is a full service print and graphic design company based in Brooklyn, NY, with a full focus on servicing small businesses. We pride ourselves on building relationships with our clients, and going the distance to provide customized solutions and competitive prices. From t-shirt and garment printing, to digital media & custom logo design, we offer a portfolio of services custom tailored to any small business owner.

We do not believe in the “design it yourself and upload to our website” model! Our team works with you on each project in it’s entirety, in order to eliminate any surprise factors upon completion. We strive to create incredible value for our clients, and believe that our approach to customer service and lasting relationships truly separates us from the print “factories” online.

FDR Drive

Maintainn

Maintainn provides real WordPress help including 24/7 security monitoring, nightly backups, weekly updates and expert support. You’ll never have to worry about your WordPress site again – with Maintainn on your team you can focus on your business and let them handle the rest.

Piklist

Piklist is the most powerful framework available for WordPress. Our free plugin allows even basic users to customize everything; easily add custom fields, settings pages, widgets and more, without having to write hundreds of lines of code. Developers will appreciate the clean, easy-to-understand code that will save you hours of developing time, and save your clients thousands of dollars. Additionally, Piklist supports Post-to-Post relationships, multiple user roles and infinite repeater fields out of the box, making it possible to build powerful websites like never before.

Piklist is available for free at WordPress.org.
Learn more about Piklist at piklist.com.

Sure Fire Web Services, Inc

Sure Fire Web Services Inc. is a project support company specializing in the Genesis Framework and Toolset Plugin. We help complete projects and tasks when other designers / developers either get stuck, or simply don’t have the time to figure things out. In addition to project support, we also offer consulting, training, one on one coaching, and retainer services.

Mind & Metrics

Technology is transforming the marketing landscape, adding new tools, techniques and strategies on a daily basis. The digital media marketer needs to have two sides, the creative mind and the analytical mind. The digital media marketer needs creativity and imagination to create content, develop strategies and campaigns that engage with the online audience and the analytical capability to disseminate the metrics and measure the success of the marketing strategy.

At Mind and Metrics we focus on both the Creative and the Analysis so that we can maximize the return on advertising and marketing dollars spent.

WPEka Club

WPEka Club was launched by Hummingbird Web Solutions last year , to consolidate all their WordPress products under one umbrella. With WPEka Club, you get access to all its WordPress plugins and themes – as of today , the count is 20 themes and 13 plugins. New products are added on a regular basis. Exclusive customization and upgrade services are available to Club Members on request. Members get to raise queries about anything related to WordPress – not just WPEka Club products.

For WordPress resources, tips and news , visit the blog at http://wpeka.com
For more about the themes and plugins , visit WPEka Club
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WPSessions

WPSessions.com wants you to be empowered by WordPress!

Every month, WPSessions brings together WordPress experts to discuss and demonstrate specific WordPress-related topics. Every presentation is broadcast live and recorded for long-term viewing.

WPSessions is a perfect complement to in-person events like WordCamp New York and other great digital events like WordSesh. With WPSessions, you can learn directly experts located around the globe while remaining in the comfort of your very own home (and without all the travel costs). You can ask these experts for answers to your specific WordPress questions, and you can go back and re-watch each presentation over and over – immediately after the live event has concluded.

Don’t wait another year for your next WordCamp experience, sign up for a WPSessions.com event today! Follow @WPSessions on Twitter for the latest.

WP Rocket

WP Rocket is a premium cache plugin for WordPress which combines simplicity and efficiency. It is the plugin you need to speed up your site, optimize your SEO and increase your conversions. Join the 3500 sites and the 1300 happy customers who rely on

3.7 Designs

3.7 DESIGNS is a boutique design and WordPress development company based out of Ann Arbor Michigan. 3.7 is not your typical, oversized, all-you-can-eat interactive agency. Rather, we focus on doing our favorite things very well. What does this mean for you? Higher quality work. Expert advice. A good working relationship. Sparkles and cupcakes. We can help achieve your goals with our expertly crafted websites, engaging brand identities, usability assessments, and printed marketing materials.

Chris Lema

Chris Lema is the Vice President of Software Engineering at Emphasys Software. In his free time he writes, coaches, and speaks at WordPress events.

LiveOptim

Integrated in MyOptim softwares suite (by MKT Lines agency), the SEO plugin LiveOptim allows you to optimize your WordPress website’s content in a Google friendly way, as well as saving time.
LiveOptim is the only SEO plugin that intelligently allows a SEO netlinking configuration of your website in order to conform it with Google’s necessary optimizations.
This is one of the essential SEO steps towards gaining a good position in Googles’ searchs and increasing your number of visitors. By installing SEO plugin LiveOptim,
you will AUTOMATICALLY become a member of the largest open community of SEO experts in the world ! You can have a FREE and a 24H/24 access to all advices on SEO for your website.
Join us !
More information on: http://wordpress.org/plugins/liveoptim/

In-Kind

Sticker Giant

Many thanks to StickerGiant for being the official sticker sponsor of WordCamp NYC!

StickerGiant are real heroes in the WordPress community, as they sponsor so many WordCamps. They are awesome people who are passionate about customer care and making great stickers.

Located in Boulder, Colorado – in a 100% wind-powered facility – StickerGiant offers one-on-one personalized service with sticker experts, full-color die-cut stickers with no die charge, and next business day shipping on most orders.

WordCamp NYC 2014

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At the Marriott

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Friday, August 1st – Contributor Day

Saturday, August 2nd

Sunday, August 3rd

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August 2-3, 2014 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge

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Individual Sponsors

Brent Shepherd

Jason Resnick

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David Bell

Shane Froebel

Thad Allender

Dave Hall

Ed Staples

Christopher Sanford

Gayatri Patel

Carl V. Lewis

Brian Newsome

John Shearer

Barbara LaPlaca

Hein Tore Tønnesen

Peter Hamilton

Niall Kennedy

Winstina Hughes

Paul Schreiber

Rik Logtenberg

Marc Gratch

Leanne Willmot

Tom Willmot

Patrick Ingle

Kurt Daisley

Ava Warner

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August 2-3, 2014 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge