Our Sponsors
We would like to say a huge thank you to our amazing sponsors. By supporting WordCamp Manchester they are playing a big part in helping local WordPress users build their knowledge and develop their personal and professional networks. Without their support and generosity WordCamp Manchester would not be able to take place.
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WooCommerce
28% 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
Krystal
Introducing Onyx, the world’s fastest WordPress hosting from the award-winning team at Krystal.
Since 2003, Krystal have provided outstanding UK-based hosting and recently we’ve created Onyx, the new standard in managed WordPress hosting.
Featuring triple-redundant NVMe SSD storage, high availability containers, CDN, DDOS protection and 2 staging environments as standard, Onyx delivers speeds 2 times faster than standard web hosts.
Behind the platform is UK technical support you can rely on; Krystal won Best Host 2018 at the ISPA Awards and are the number 1 UK hosting company on TrustPilot.
If you think that your WordPress website could do with an upgrade try Onyx today for just £1 for the first month. It’s entirely risk free as you’ll be covered by our 60-day no quibble money back guarantee and we’ll help migrate you over for free too.
Try Onyx at www.onyx.io
34SP.com
Their WordPress platform provides SSL, daily backups and one click staging functionality as standard, at no extra cost. 34SP.com‘s custom built hosting stack offers unlimited page views, unlimited traffic, and can power more than 1000 users per second. Their in-house highly trained WordPress team work 100% in the UK and are focused on providing exceptional service and support 365 days a year. Oh, they charge less than 40p per day, too.
Based in the UK, 34SP.com is firmly committed to supporting the communities in which it participates. That might be the WordPress community, where they have attended every UK WordCamp in 2017, not to mention tens of meet-ups throughout the UK; or it might be the myriad small local UK charities who rely on them to help stretch their budgets – in 2017 34SP.com donated over £ 36,000 of free services to UK charities.
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EasyWP from Namecheap
Most people that use WordPress prefer a managed WordPress hosting service. We all know that installation, updates, management takes time. And we all know that hosting services going down, a blog getting a traffic spike, or even noisy neighbours on the same server can cause headaches for even the most seasoned of WordPress webmasters. Many providers have offered Managed WordPress services that solve some, or all of these but often, they’ve been priced out of reach and quite simply, too expensive.
EasyWP from Namecheap is different. It costs just $3.88 a month for the entry level starter package and is built entirely on Namecheap’s own cloud. This provides elastic scaling for high-traffic events, a container-based hosting environment delivering extreme uptime and isolating websites from noisy neighbours. And the icing on the cake is the EasyWP dashboard; the easiest and fastest way to install, launch and manage multiple websites all from your browser.
And if you need any help, EasyWP is backed by Namecheap’s renowned 24×7 customer service all year long.
We believe in the Internet being for people. Making your mark should be simple and affordable. Our goal at Namecheap is to be honest, straightforward and helpful every step of the way.
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GoDaddy
GoDaddy Pro is a free membership program for web developers, designers & agencies. It offers exclusive tools to help onboard, manage and maintain multiple clients and their sites fast and easy. With GoDaddy Pro tools, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage their products from a single dashboard. Additionally, your membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support and rewards for recommending GoDaddy to your clients.
You can use GoDaddy Pro with all of GoDaddy’s newly refreshed hosting products, including Managed WordPress, cPanel shared hosting, our brand new cloud product, and our virtual and dedicated solutions.
And, always get the best price on GoDaddy products with your “30% off list price” member benefit.
Learn more about GoDaddy Pro.
Heart Internet
Heart Internet is one of the UK’s leading Web and Reseller Hosting companies. We work hand-in-hand with web designers, agencies, developers, and technically-experienced business customers to help them be successful online. We provide our customers with the technology they need to reach their goals.
Fans of WordPress will love our Home Pro and Business Pro packages which allow users to install it in just one click. Our Managed VPS provides easy web hosting for design agencies and developers, with a WordPress Toolkit for even easier WordPress hosting.
Our remarkable products, reliable service, and outstanding security features have won us countless awards over the years. As part of this, we are always evolving and improving to meet the ever-changing needs of our much-valued customers.
At Heart Internet, we’re always listening to our customers to ensure that we provide them with the tools they need to grow. As WordPress remains a firm favourite, you can be sure it will be something we’ll continue to be passionate about.
WooCart
Build your clients’ feature-rich localized stores in just a few clicks even without dev skills. Dedicated hosting powered by Google Cloud, global CDN and advanced caching will make your stores lightning fast. All stores come with SSL, daily backups and our “No hacks or malware” guarantee. With Staging you’ll be able to test and work on a clone of the live site without breaking it for your client’s customers.
Your developers will welcome WP-CLI and full access to logs and system graphs for simple troubleshooting.
WooCart increases the speed of building new stores while lowering the amount of time spent on maintenance for existing ones. Spend your time on growing your portfolio or on marketing your clients’ stores and not on fixing technical issues.
Learn more about WooCart
Carrot.web
carrot.web is a modern digital parent company. We love WordPress and we constantly use it on our projects.
But we love the WordPress community and it’s culture more! And we are proud to sponsor WordCamp Manchester this year.
Human Made
We are Human Made. A global WordPress.com VIP partner, and one of the leading providers of WordPress platforms and solutions for enterprise.
We’re building powerful digital solutions and delivering technically complex WordPress instances at scale to transform the way people interact with some of the most visited websites in the world. We work with big names in publishing and in enterprise, including News UK, USA Today, Capgemini, Fairfax Media, and TechCrunch.
Sponsoring WordCamps
Human Made are a global WordPress.com VIP partner, and one of the leading providers of WordPress platforms and solutions for enterprise.
We’re building powerful digital solutions for enterprise and big publishers and delivering technically complex WordPress instances at scale to transform the way people interact with some of the most visited websites in the world. Our previous clients include News UK, USA Today, Capgemini, Fairfax Media, and TechCrunch.
We hire the best people, regardless of location, and our team consists of some of the world’s most respected WordPress professionals. Our engineers have led the development of the REST API and we’re highly active in contributing to all aspects of the WordPress project. We are recognised worldwide for our community standing.
Find out more about us in our company handbook and if you’re interested in looking further into how we work, take a look through our engineering handbook. And get in touch! We’d love to hear from you.
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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.
Impact Media
Delicious Media
Kanuka Digital
Yoast BV
As the well-known saying goes; “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” That’s exactly what Yoast Academy is all about. Instead of fixing the SEO of your website for you once, we’ll teach you how to do it yourself forever. If you’re new to SEO, the best start is our Basic SEO course, followed by the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin training with personal configuration review which teaches you how to configure our popular Yoast SEO plugin on your website. After mastering these basics, you can take the deep dive with Technical SEO, SEO copywriting, multilingual SEO and many other courses.
And the more knowledge you have, the better we can work together on making the web a better place for everyone!
Tao Digital Marketing
UK Swimwear
UK Swimwear is an online retailer based in Cheshire, selling swimsuits, bikinis, beach accessories and holiday essentials online. Since 2005, the team behind UK Swimwear and our sister sites have been selling online, and a big part of that has been social media and blogging. We are big fans of WordPress, the only blogging platform that we use. For 13 years, we have been distributing content through this platform across three different sites. Our team of content creators want to do even more with WordPress, and WordCamp is the perfect opportunity for us to learn more. UK Swimwear is sponsoring WordCamp Manchester this year because it’s events like these that have helped us grow and they will keep helping businesses grow year after year
Elementary Digital
Elementary Digital are a dedicated WordPress agency based in London and Leeds helping businesses in the UK, Europe and USA realise the power of WordPress as an Enterprise content management system. Pioneers of the WordPress API and actively contributing to the UK WordPress community we are a team of 24+ designers, developers and consultants. Put simply we love WordPress and have been promoting the virtues of the platform since 2008.
Make Do
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!