The Second Annual WordCamp Jacksonville is on the calendar for May 20 & 21, 2017.
Event Photos 2016
We want to give a big thank you to Beau and Daisy Moffatt of Daisy Moffatt Photography for working hard to capture so many wonderful moments from our inaugural WordCamp Jacksonville.
You can see, download, and share all the photos from our Flickr album.
Big Thanks To Our Main Street Sponsors
We wanted to take a moment to send out a big thanks to all of our Main Street sponsors. We would not have the opportunity of organizing this event without our generous and friendly sponsors. Please take a moment to check out our Main Street sponsors and be sure to thank them for helping with WordCamp Jacksonville.
Jetpack
Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites. This single plugin enables Photon (a global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple-site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look and feel of your site without installing other tools. More information can be found at jetpack.com.
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.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the fastest growing eCommerce software/platform, powering over 30% of all eCommerce stores with over 1 million active installations. It is is built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, making it the obvious eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers over 25% of all websites on the internet.
With WooCommerce you can start with all the basic tools that any small business would need to start selling online, including product setup, payments, shipping options, and sales reports and as your business grows choose from over 300 premium add-ons available including additional payment processors, shipping methods, inventory systems and marketing tools anyone to sell anything, anywhere from real products and digital downloads to subscriptions, content and even your time.
In July 2015, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month and also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. We look forward to growing WooCommerce to achieve even greater things together with Automattic.
MainWP
Say hello to the web’s best WordPress management solution.
MainWP brings 360-degrees of control to WordPress management with a simple, streamlined interface that lets users control all their sites in a snap. Now schedule automated backups, monitor up-time, manage content and plugins across multiple sites with push-button ease.
MainWP is self-hosted and free. You can download it directly from WordPress.org and take advantage of a cutting-edge, open-source solution that helps you get more done in less time. You get one central and intuitive Dashboard for 1-click updates, adding and editing posts and pages, and creating backups for all connected sites.
You can also broaden the scope of MainWP and make it your own using purpose-built Extensions designed to expand its capabilities. Choose from a wide selection of add-ons including SEO, marketing, security, maintenance and more, MainWP gives you a powerful line-up of Extensions to choose from.
With MainWP, it’s time to make WordPress management effortlessly efficient.
Liquid Web
Liquid Web, a managed web hosting company, offers a wide array of hosting solutions, including VPS, cloud, dedicated, and shared hosting plans. WordPress users will find our fully managed hosting solutions, built on powerful and flexible servers, ideal for hosting WordPress sites of all sizes. In addition, all of our fully-managed solutions come backed by our industry-leading, 24/7/365, on-site Heroic Support®. Our Heroic Promise features a comprehensive SLA with 59 second phone and live chat responses, 30 minute helpdesk responses, 30 minute hardware replacement, and 100% power and network uptime guarantees. With wholly-owned, state-of-the-art data centers in Michigan, Arizona, and Amsterdam, we provide true global reach and geographic redundancy. Whether your hosting needs are big or small, managed or unmanaged, shared, VPS, or cloud … Liquid Web is the perfect match.
Twitter: @liquidweb
Facebook: LiquidWebInc
Check out Bluehost, a Main Street Sponsor
WordCamp Jacksonville would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. This year, Bluehost was very helpful by answering our call for sponsors. Be sure to visit their site to learn more about their services.
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.
Welcome to Jacksonville!
Are you visiting from out of town? Are you coming early or staying late? Check out our page on places to eat and things to do in Jacksonville.
Big Thanks To Our Buckman Sponsors
We wanted to take a moment to send out a big thanks to all of our Buckman sponsors. We would not have the opportunity of organizing this event without our generous and friendly sponsors. Please take a moment to check out our Buckman sponsors and be sure to thank them for helping with WordCamp Jacksonville.
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.
Pantheon
The website management platform for Drupal & WordPress, Pantheon provides web teams with the hosting, cloud-based developer tools, and scalable infrastructure needed to run awesome websites. Serving billions of pageviews a month for over 100,000 websites, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security or performance. It’s free in development. Create your free account now!
SiteLock
Currently protecting more than one million WordPress sites, SiteLock delivers a patented 360-degree website security solution to find, fix and prevent malware and other threats from affecting websites and their visitors. Services include malware scanning and vulnerability detection, automatic malware removal, an advanced web application firewall (WAF), PCI compliance and website acceleration powered by a global CDN. SiteLock provides phone support, available 24/7/365.
Kuna Co-Work
Kuna Co-Work is a shared office space with common area, window bays, suites, meeting space, and a conference room with common amenities. We strive to provide a communal, authentic and community-oriented workspace for independent and multiple members of a business. The energy and casual space will be occupied by free thinkers, creative developers, dedicated professionals and intuitive entrepreneurs. Together we create a space inviting positive brainstorming and success for businesses.
Twitter: @kunacoworking
Facebook: kunacoworking
Have You Checked Out Liquid Web?
WordCamp Jacksonville would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. This year, Liquid Web quickly came to our aid when we put out our call for sponsors. Be sure to visit their booth at the event to learn more about their services.
Liquid Web, a managed web hosting company, offers a wide array of hosting solutions, including VPS, cloud, dedicated, and shared hosting plans. WordPress users will find our fully managed hosting solutions, built on powerful and flexible servers, ideal for hosting WordPress sites of all sizes. In addition, all of our fully-managed solutions come backed by our industry-leading, 24/7/365, on-site Heroic Support®. Our Heroic Promise features a comprehensive SLA with 59 second phone and live chat responses, 30 minute helpdesk responses, 30 minute hardware replacement, and 100% power and network uptime guarantees. With wholly-owned, state-of-the-art data centers in Michigan, Arizona, and Amsterdam, we provide true global reach and geographic redundancy. Whether your hosting needs are big or small, managed or unmanaged, shared, VPS, or cloud … Liquid Web is the perfect match.
Twitter: @liquidweb
Facebook: LiquidWebInc
Join Slack. Have Fun.
Have you heard of this thing called Slack? It’s a messaging app that’s very popular in the WordPress community. Join our Slack channel and you can make WCJAX connections before the Camp even starts.
Check Out MainWP, A Main Street Sponsor
When we first started asking for sponsors, MainWP was one of the first to support our event. WordCamp Jacksonville would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. Be sure to visit their booth at the event to learn more about their services.
Say hello to the web’s best WordPress management solution.
MainWP brings 360-degrees of control to WordPress management with a simple, streamlined interface that lets users control all their sites in a snap. Now schedule automated backups, monitor up-time, manage content and plugins across multiple sites with push-button ease.
MainWP is self-hosted and free. You can download it directly from WordPress.org and take advantage of a cutting-edge, open-source solution that helps you get more done in less time. You get one central and intuitive Dashboard for 1-click updates, adding and editing posts and pages, and creating backups for all connected sites.
You can also broaden the scope of MainWP and make it your own using purpose-built Extensions designed to expand its capabilities. Choose from a wide selection of add-ons including SEO, marketing, security, maintenance and more, MainWP gives you a powerful line-up of Extensions to choose from.
With MainWP, it’s time to make WordPress management effortlessly efficient.
Big Thanks To Our Dames Point Sponsors
We wanted to take a moment to send out a big thanks to all of our Dames Point sponsors. We would not have the opportunity of organizing this event without our generous and friendly sponsors. Please take a moment to check out our Dames Point sponsors and be sure to thank them for helping with WordCamp Jacksonville.
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 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/.
WPML te permite hacer tu sitio multilingüe.
Al instalarlo podrás traducir todo el contenido del sitio, desde entradas, entradas personalizadas y páginas así como menúes, widgets y textos del tema y otros plugins.
Es compatible con plugins de caching, SEO, E-Commerce y muchos más.
WPML es adecuado tanto para grandes sitios corporativos como para blogs personales, y ya ha ayudado a hacer multilingüe a mas de 500.000 sitios comerciales en todo el mundo.
Más información en: WPML.org
Contratamos talento. Si eres un programador creativo, te invitamos a contactarnos: http://wpml.org/home/were-hiring/
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.
Plesk
Plesk simplifies web management activities to align with the way infrastructure is used today for hosting websites and web applications. A widely used web management solution, Plesk provides everything a web professional needs to set up a website quickly and securely – including a WordPress Toolkit, an easy-to-navigate control panel, server level automation, supportability tools, and complete protection with our server-to-site security core.
Pressidium
Pressidium® offers a managed WordPress hosting platform built with Enterprise Architecture high-availability design. Our platform is built specifically to host professional WordPress sites, by using webscale technologies and systems specifically optimized to deliver incredible speed, unparalleled availability and uptime. Pressidium® offers fast, robust, scalable, secure WordPress Hosting and an awesome DevOps support team full of WordPress experts. Our fully managed WordPress hosting service allows you to concentrate on your content without worrying about your website.
Twitter: @pressidium
Facebook: pressidium