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<\/p>\nWordCamp Manchester is only possible with the support of our amazing sponsors and we would like to say thank you to our nine brilliant bronze sponsors.<\/p>\n
This year we have been joined by both old friends who have supported our event many times and also brand new supporters, who are joining us for the very first time. The flexibility of WordPress is demonstrated beautifully in the variety of sponsors we’ve had this year which include: agencies, hosting companies and even a retail company.<\/p>\n
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Bluehost<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordCamp Manchester is only possible with the support of our amazing sponsors and we would like to say thank you to our nine brilliant bronze sponsors. This year we have been joined by both old friends who have supported our event many times and also brand new supporters, who are joining us for the very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14449193,"featured_media":1223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sponsors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Thank-you-6.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tyMT-w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14449193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manchester.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Impact](\"https:\/\/2018.manchester.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/09\/IMPACT_MEDIA_MASTER_RGB-300x36.png\")
<\/p>\nWe\u2019re Impact Media<\/a> a specialist WordPress agency based in Essex. We help ambitious businesses profit more from their WordPress websites. Building, supporting and constantly evolving websites to deliver next-level experiences that are user and conversion focused.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWe have been building on WordPress since around 2008\/09, yet our first WordCamp was only Manchester last year! We loved the community feel and event format and decided to sponsor this year to give back and contribute more to the WP community for almost 10 years of powering the websites we build.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Delicious](\"https:\/\/2018.manchester.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/09\/delicious-media-300x55.png\")
<\/div>\n\nDelicious Media<\/a> is a specialist WordPress Web Design and Development Agency based in Sheffield and Huddersfield. We provide WordPress services to clients in Yorkshire and beyond.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWe\u2019re a friendly team that loves WordPress and knows how to get the very best out of it for our clients. Whether it\u2019s a website, bespoke plugin and theme development, or something more complex, we can help.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWe love to collaborate with other designers and agencies that need help with their WordPress builds are regular contributors to the global WordPress community. We also help organise a local WordPress meetup in Leeds.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Kanuka](\"https:\/\/2018.manchester.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/09\/unnamed.png\")
<\/div>\n\nKanuka Digital <\/a>is a new agency but its roots in web design and digital marketing are deep having blossomed out of the digital marketing department of our parent agency, iWeb.<\/span><\/div>\nWe do our bit by releasing plugins and contributing to open source projects. We\u2019ve attended and sponsored WordCamp\u2019s across Europe and play our part in organising a local meetup group.<\/span><\/div>\nWe look forward to meeting you all at WordCamp Manchester. We always come back with actionable takeaways and insight. It is our pleasure to support such a consistently well-run event.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/2018.manchester.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/10\/img_2052-300x174.png\")
<\/div>\nAs the well-known saying goes; \u201cGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.\u201d That\u2019s exactly what Yoast<\/span> Academy i<\/a>s all about. Instead of fixing the SEO of your website for you once, we\u2019ll teach you how to do it yourself forever. If you\u2019re new to SEO, the best start is our Basic SEO course<\/a>, followed by the Yoast<\/span> SEO for WordPress plugin training with personal configuration review<\/a> which teaches you how to configure our popular Yoast<\/span> SEO plugin<\/a> on your website. After mastering these basics, you can take the deep dive with Technical SEO<\/a>, SEO copywriting<\/a>, multilingual SEO<\/a> and many other courses.
\nAnd the more knowledge you have, the better we can work together on making the web a better place for everyone!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Tao](\"https:\/\/2018.manchester.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/09\/851x250-Tao-Digital-Marketing-Logo-300x88.png\"){kind=logo}
<\/div>\n\nTao – a Chinese word signifying ‘way’, ‘path’, ‘route’, ‘road’. Tao Digital Marketing<\/a> was formed to help businesses prosper online. We work from the opposite direction to most, we understand the goals of the business and then form a digital marketing strategy to achieve.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\nMatt Tomkin, founder of Tao has been in business for over 11 years and wants to help more companies succeed online. Our goal is all about “Providing the path to online success”<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"UK](\"https:\/\/2018.manchester.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/10\/uk-swimwear-logo-small.jpg\"){kind=logo}
<\/div>\nUK Swimwear<\/a> is an online retailer based in Cheshire, selling swimsuits<\/a>, bikinis, <\/a>beach accessories and holiday essentials<\/a> 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.<\/a> 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\u2019s events like these that have helped us grow and they will keep helping businesses grow year after year<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Elementary](\"https:\/\/2018.manchester.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/09\/ed-logo-black-300x60.png\"){kind=logo}
<\/div>\nElementary Digital<\/a>\u00a0are 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.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Make](\"https:\/\/2018.manchester.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/10\/Make-Do-2015-PNG-HI-300x124.png\")
<\/div>\n\nMake Do are a WordPress Design & Development Agency that have been building for the web since the 90\u2019s. Our team take great pride in what we do and guarantee that you\u2019ll get on great with us if you need an advanced WordPress team to make things happen!\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\nVisit our website at makedo.net<\/a> for more information or email Kimb via kimb@makedo.net<\/a>.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n