Woo! it’s WooThemes, a Regent Street Sponsor

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Siobhan

WooThemes were one of the first large WordPress theme shops, and are no doubt to familiar to you due to their immensely cute Woo Ninja. From a team of three guys, WooThemes has now grown to being one of the largest WordPress businesses around. A number of WooThemes employees are based in the UK, and you’ll see them running around at WordCamp London. Make sure you say thanks for supporting us as a Regent Street sponsor.

WooThemes is an international, market leading, bootstrapped business providing a platform to extend standard WordPress-powered websites via a range of innovative themes and plugins. With WooThemes businesses and individuals can get professional WordPress sites launched quickly and affordably.

From our humble beginnings selling a handful of commercial WordPress themes we now offer a huge catalog of feature rich themes, and a suite of plugins that extend your WordPress experience.

Thank You WP Engine!

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Siobhan

If you haven’t heard of WP Engine, where have you been? Over the past few years they’ve become one of the most popular providers of managed WordPress hosting. WordCamp London 2013 is the first WordCamp to be held in WP Engine co-founder Ben Metcalfe’s home town. We’re excited to welcome to WordCamp London and to thank them for being a Regent Street sponsor.

WP Engine is the one of the most mature premium managed hosting platforms for websites and apps built with WordPress. WP Engine powers tens of thousands of websites, delivering the fastest, most reliable, and most secure web experience. Businesses large and small have come to rely on WP Engine’s exceptional customer service team that specializes in solving problems ranging from troubleshooting plugins, making themes scalable, and mitigating site migration headaches.

A Huge Thank You to SiteGround!

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Siobhan

SiteGround have been a big supporter of WordCamps all over the world, and we’re thrilled that they decided to support WordCamp London as a Park Lane sponsor. Our Park Lane sponsors are a big part of WordCamp London – without them we wouldn’t be able to pull of such a huge event. Make sure to stop by SiteGround’s exhibit to say hi and say thanks!

SiteGround provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing: unique in-house crafted WordPress speed and security solutions for ultimate performance and protection, 24/7 support that knows WordPress and wide variety of WordPress tools – automatic updates, SuperCacher, CDN, staging. All this combined with the good old features of standard hosting – email service, ftp service, domain registration and the reasonable pricing. For the convenience of their clients from UK, they have a local toll free line, provide a free .co.uk domain names and accept payments in pounds.

We <3 You, Human Made

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Siobhan

The folks at Human Made have been extremely supportive of WordCamp London, in terms of helping with organising and in coming on board as a Park Lane sponsor. Our Park Lane sponsors provide a huge amount of the budget for the event and we are so appreciative of their support. Human Made are consistently active in the WordPress community, both in the UK and globally. They are behind products such as Happytables and WPRemote, and build a number of big websites running WordPress. Here’s a bit more about them:

Human Made specialise in high end WordPress developments for large, complex or high-traffic sites. These will typically involve a high degree of custom development such as plug-ins or extending WordPress and dealing with issues such as scalability and security. Each client provides a different challenge. A WordPress.com VIP partner since 2012, we’ve a proven track record in dealing with big clients.

If you see anyone from Human Made, do thank them for helping to make WordCamp London possible.