Silver Sponsor Spotlight: BackupBuddy

BackupBuddy is another great product from the folks over at iThemes. It allows you to backup, migrate, and restore your entire single or Multisite WordPress install including the widgets, themes and plugins. To keep your backups safe, BackupBuddy supports sending your backups offsite to Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, Dropbox, FTP, and email. Quickly and easily restore your site on the same server or migrate to a new server with a different domain and database. The process is easy, fast, and reliable.

The iThemes team isn’t going to be able to make it out to the event this year. They have already given away two tickets, but now they would like to give away TWO MORE! iThemes is giving away 2 more free full access tickets to WordCamp Philly 2012! The event is less than 1 week away and this really is your last chance to get one!  To be in the running for one of the 2 iThemes full access passes just leave a comment below letting us know why you want to attend WordCamp Philly.

*You must leave a comment by October 17th, 1:00pm Eastern time to be eligible. Winners will be chosen and notified later that day.

 

Gold Sponsor Spotlight: WebDevStudios

WebDevStudios is a website development company specializing in WordPress development and design. We have an amazing staff who live and breathe WordPress and we pride ourselves in being WordPress experts. Our clients range anywhere from a single blog site to a WordPress Multisite network with thousands of sites to a BuddyPress site with thousands of members. Working with WebDevStudios, you can feel confident that your project will be completed quickly and correctly! For more information check us out at http://webdevstudios.com/.

Thank you to WebDevStudios for your support! Make sure you say hi to the WebDevStudios team at WordCamp on Saturday!

Silver Sponsor Spotlight: US Server Net

US Server Net grew out of a small, local web design and hosting service that began in 1997. Our Managed WordPress Hosting is designed specifically for small business owners, busy professionals, home-based and virtual businesses, groups, and individuals who need an easy way to manage web publishing. By using WordPress as a Content Management System, our clients learn to organize their online information using pages and posts, pictures, audio and video clips.

In 2011 we developed Site Insurance Management Services (SIMS), a website bundle that brought peace of mind to the clients who took advantage of this hosting option. At the beginning of 2012, SIMS was folded into our WP Server bundle and ServerNet.us was born. Today we are growing rapidly, as more individuals, groups, small businesses and organizations learn how easy it is to get a WordPress site up and running, without having to worry about the technology and software management details that we provide as part of every site subscription.

Starting at just $33 per month, sites include a complete WordPress installation with premium theme framework, our suite of security and productivity plugins, web and email hosting, domain management, WordPress core, theme and plugin updates, site monitoring, malware scanning, and automated scheduled backup. Training options include both site administration workshops at our King of Prussia office as well as Introduction to Web Publishing, a series of four 90-minute webinars offered monthly.

 

Gold Sponsor Spotlight: Inverse Paradox

Since 2007, Inverse Paradox has provided high quality and robust solutions for businesses’ design, internet and marketing needs. Specializing in content management systems, in particular WordPress, Inverse Paradox has created user-friendly, engaging designs for hundreds of clients across a wide range of industries. These industries range from medical and educational institutions to sports & entertainment and retail. The IP team always looks to use WordPress functionality in innovative ways to achieve their client’s business goals, often implementing e-commerce capabilities and custom catalogs as well.

Thank you to Inverse Paradox for your support at WordCamp Philly! Be sure to say hello to the Inverse Paradox team on Saturday!

Design Sponsor: YIKES, Inc.

YIKES, Inc. is a women-owned company dedicated to green business practices. Since 1996, YIKES has been a socially responsible business observing the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit. YIKES is committed to building a more socially, environmentally and financially sustainable local economy.

YIKES is a member of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, the Independence Business Alliance and is a B Corporation member. YIKES has also earned and is approved to be listed as a green business in their National Green Pages™ directory.

The YIKES office is powered by 100% renewable electricity through the Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania. Most of the paper materials used by YIKES are recycled and printed with soy ink. YIKES is also a 100% Replanted office. YIKES employees donate a percentage of YIKES’ profits to non-profit organizations every year.

Tracy over at YIKES designed our Halloween themed website and badges this year and we appreciate all her help and be sure to catch her session, Custom Post Types for Right-Brained Folks at 11:15am in the Design Track!

Gold Sponsor Spotlight: Code Poet

If you use WordPress to build things for other people, Code Poet want 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, their 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 tap into.

Silver Sponsor: iThemes Builder

We are proud to announce that for the 3rd year in a row iThemes is sponsoring WordCamp Philly!  We are so grateful for their continued support to the Philly WordPress community and helping to make our event great!

iThemes is an awesome WordPress focused company that been around since 2008 with an office in Edmond, Oklahoma and employees around the world working hard to make your life easier. They are real people who have a lot of fun working together, building tools to help you build awesome web sites.

Builder is a theme framework from the folks at iThemes. Builder’s Layout Engine allows you to quickly and easily create any page layout you like without having to be a coder. With more than 45 child themes (and more always in development) it’s easy to find a design that fits your website. To customize your theme, you can use Builder’s Style Manager to tweak the design to your liking, all without ever touching a line of code. Builder also has built-in SEO options, to make sure your site can be easily found by search engines. If you are looking for a way to customize your website, but aren’t overly tech-savvy, we highly recommend checking out the Builder theme framework!

The iThemes team isn’t going to be able to make it out to the event this year, but they would like to give YOU their tickets to the event! iThemes is giving away 2 free full access tickets to WordCamp Philly 2012! As you may have heard, we have already sold out of full access tickets, so this is your last chance to get one!  To be in the running for one of the 2 iThemes full access passes just leave a comment below letting us know why you want to attend WordCamp Philly.

*You must leave a comment by October 14th, 11:59pm Eastern time to be eligible. Winners will be chosen and notified on Monday, October 15th.

 

Last Chance to get a ticket WITH a T-Shirt

Last year’s WordCamp Philly shirt

On Tuesday, October 9th we will be sending in our t-shirt order which means Monday, October 8th is the last day that you can buy a ticket and be guaranteed one of our awesome WordCamp Philly 2012 t-shirts.  Be sure to go register for your WordCamp Philly 2012 ticket today and assure your t-shirt will be there waiting for you when you check in! As of now we still have about 50 Weekend Full Access tickets and 100 Saturday Admission tickets. Be sure to get your ticket ASAP because we are sure to sell out soon!

A big thank you to Aina Cherry-Moye over at Cherry Global Design who designed this years Halloween themed t-shirt!

Thank you to Hi-Voltage Productions out in Harrisburg, PA who is printing our shirts!

The WordCamp Philly 2012 Schedule is Up!

We are happy to announce that our speaker schedule for Saturday is up!

Saturday’s conference will include four tracks of User, Power User, Developer and Designer. We worked with our speakers to create a diversified schedule that has something for everyone attending. Each of the session on the schedule is connected to the session detail page so you can find out a little more about each session topic and plan your schedule accordingly.

Along with the 4 tracks, we have included a few special panels throughout the day. The first panel will include security experts Dre Armeda and Tony Perez . The audience will have the chance to ask these experts your most pressing security questions.

The second panel will include four members of our community that are making a living through WordPress. This panel will cover running a business around WordPress and the highs and lows of a WordPress focused business.

You can find the full schedule here.