Category: Announcements

Due to the generous financial support of global and local sponsors, ticket prices for WordCamp Raleigh are again only $35!

The sponsors listed below are donating their time and money in support of the Raleigh WordPress community.  Remember to wander over and thank them personally.

Due to the generous financial support of global and local sponsors, ticket prices for WordCamp Raleigh are again only $35!

The sponsors listed below are donating their time and money in support of the Raleigh WordPress community.  Remember to wander over and thank them personally.

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.

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Learn more about GoDaddy Pro.

Since 2003, A2 Hosting has specialized in linux-based, developer-friendly hosting. We cater to the WordPress community by offering robust servers and hosting accounts at an affordable cost. Whether you have never run a website before or a professional developer, rest assured we have a web hosting solution to meet your unique needs. Best of all, we back up our hosting with 24/7 US-based support available by phone, ticket, or live chat.

At A2, we dedicate a percentage of our development time to WordPress as part of the Five for the Future initiative, and we are active in the WordPress community. We support many WordCamps and WordPress meetups around the country and several members of our team help organize their local WordCamps, including WordCamp Ann Arbor and WordCamp Jackson.

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.

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Give is the most flexible, robust, and easy to use WordPress plugin for accepting donations directly on your website. Upon activation, Give provides you with powerful fundraising features for your Cause.

Is this your first WordCamp? Read the official What to Expect, and review our helpful guide below:

What to bring (each is optional):

–Laptop for note-taking, participating in online/offline demos, getting help from another attendee, or showing off your stuff.

–Business cards for networking.

–Writing utensil and something to write on for note-taking, networking, etc.

–Cell phone for networking and to take/share pictures (on social media hashtag #WCRaleigh)

–A Twitter account to keep up with the #WCRaleigh hashtag posts by other attendees. Make sure to follow the official @wordcampraleigh account as well!

–Slack access for asking questions. There’s a channel for each track as well as one for general information. You can also get help in the #happiness_bar channel. Sign up here: http://wordcampraleigh.herokuapp.com

–Dress code: You’ll see clothes from shorts/flip flops to suits, and everything in-between, with the trend toward the casual end of the spectrum. Wear something weather appropriate that you feel most comfortable in.

What we’ll provide:

-Coffee, tea, water

-Snacks (including gluten-free)

-Five tracks of WordPress awesomeness (advance signup is required for the ]three workshops, but not for the other sessions)

-Plenty of time between sessions for networking and/or learning with speakers, sponsors, and other attendees

-Full lunch on Saturday at On The Oval

-Donuts on Sunday (Rise Biscuits and Donuts)

-Free wifi courtesy of NC State University – ncsu-guest (no password required)

–Happiness Bar throughout WordCamp where you can ask questions from volunteers including speakers.

-One free drink ticket for the afterparty

How to get to WordCamp:

https://2017.raleigh.wordcamp.org/getting-to-wordcamp-raleigh-2017/

-Registration is from 8:15-9:00 in the atrium of Engineering Building 1.

–Free parking in marked garages on Partners Way

-Map of our location can be found on our Location page 

FAQs:  https://2017.raleigh.wordcamp.org/faqs/

Yep, you read that right! We’ve got some amazing sponsors who are very generously donating some awesome raffle prizes. All attendees are automatically entered into the raffle drawings. The drawing will be Sunday morning immediately following Cory Miller’s talk.

55″ TV – Bluehost

iPad – All in One SEO Pack

branded backpack – Siteground

We still have a few spots available for the Beginner’s Intro to WordPress Workshop with Doug Foster. As a reminder, this workshop is included with your $35 WordCamp ticket, and is only available to those who’ve already registered for WordCamp Raleigh.

You can read more about Part 1 and Part 2.

You’ve been procrastinating. We all do it. It’s ok. But today is the day. Buy your tickets now if you’d still like a t-shirt. We can not guarantee that there will be any extras for people who buy after 11 April.

Due to the generous financial support of global and local sponsors, ticket prices for WordCamp Raleigh are again only $35!

The sponsors listed below are donating their time and money in support of the Raleigh WordPress community.  Remember to wander over and thank them personally.

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.

37% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.

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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.

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.

BoldGrid is a website builder powered by WordPress. It is a free set of WordPress plugins, themes, and other content that allows site creation and management similar to non-WordPress website builders. By placing WordPress more in line with DIY site builder solutions on the market, our mission is not only to make WordPress more accessible and easy for beginners to utilize, but also automate and streamline typical WordPress tasks to provide a fast, creator-friendly platform that even web professionals will appreciate.

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All in One SEO Pack Pro is the popular WordPress plugin, developed since 2007 by Michael Torbert and Semper Plugins of Raleigh North Carolina, for managing the Search Engine Optimization of your website or blog. All in One SEO Pack is one of the most downloaded plugin for WordPress with over 30 million downloads. Chances are you’ve searched Google and found a website that’s running this powerful WordPress plugin.

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Farside Films is a production company with roots through out the southeast and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. They specialize in videography and photography for live music events, independent shorts, local and regional commercials, website marketing videos, music videos and other media. They have a passion for creativity in every aspect of production which can be seen the work from script to screen.

Farside Films is proud to be a sponsor for the 2017 WordCamp Raleigh conference.

GoGoCreate.com provides an all-in-one white labeled dashboard for creatives, designers & developers to monetize additional revenue streams by providing hosting, domains, invoicing and other services to their existing client base.

Most years we announce speakers in multiple waves. We now have all the speakers confirmed and the (probably) final schedule, so we’re going ahead and releasing it today!

We’ll have 34 incredible speakers this year, including an amazing Keynote by Chris Lema as well as featured speaker Cory Miller.

Now that the schedule has been released, tickets will sell out soon, and you don’t want to miss this.

Saturday, April 22nd

Sunday, April 23rd

Hey, before you skip this part thinking “they’ve probably got this covered, read on.

WordCamp Raleigh is entirely run by volunteers. We need people to help with social media, people to help with setup, people to help with Audiovisual needs, people to help us think of other things we are forgetting to ask for help with, etc.

All WCRaleigh organization takes place in our slack channel. After filling out the info below, we’ll send you a link to the slack channel where you can help us prepare for WordCamp!