Thanks to Hover for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.

Hover sells domain names and email – that’s it.

With over three hundred domain extensions, no heavy-handed upselling, and best-in-class support, Hover makes it easy to spend less time on finding your perfect domain and more time on your big idea. Domain name your passion.

Thanks to Weglot for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.

Weglot is the best WordPress multilingual plugin to translate and display your website in multiple languages.

Founded in 2016, Weglot is trusted by more than 40,000 websites owners and developers, with an average rating of 4.9/5.0 (700+ reviews).

Key benefits include:

• Simple and quick set-up.
• Multilingual SEO best practices.
• Compatibility with any Themes and Plugins (incl. WooCommerce).
• Human and automatic translations.
• A unique dashboard: edit and replace any content, add your own translations rules, invite in-house freelancer or team mates to collaborate.
• Expert Support: Fully dedicated translation technical expert of 10+ team members.

Check out Weglot in the WordPress.org plugin directory.

Thanks to Major Tom for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.

Major Tom is a full-service agency that’s been purpose-built to help clients thrive in today’s increasingly complex marketing landscape.

Our team of more than 86 industry-leading specialists have been hand-picked from across the globe and cover the full spectrum of strategy, marketing, development, and creative. We’ve been serving our partners from our offices in New York, Toronto, and Vancouver since 2000. We combine the top-level strategy you’d find at an established consultancy with the implementation and technological capabilities you’d find at a leading agency.

Made up of some of the brightest minds on the web, we humanize modern marketing, cutting through the noise to bring clarity to our clients.

The following is a guest post on behalf of our sponsors at GoDaddy. GoDaddy Pro provides free tools like delegated account access and a single dashboard to manage all your WordPress sites (no matter where they’re hosted).

Let’s go back in time to 2004 when WordPress was first spun out of b2/cafelog.

In these early days, a website was your online presence.

Social media wasn’t really a thing yet. Facebook wasn’t conceived until a month after WordPress 1.0 shipped, MySpace didn’t take off until 2005, and Twitter came along a year later in 2006.

Nobody was vlogging on YouTube or streaming on Twitch or posting stories to Instagram because these things didn’t exist yet.

But blogs existed, and the web was full of them. They were tomes of digital text, powered by a plethora of platforms.

In time, WordPress came to dominate. It gobbled up market share as bloggers moved away from the likes of Movable Type (and others).

WordPress was great because it provided an elegant writing experience and was open to customization through themes, plugins, and post types.

Thanks to those capabilities, WordPress eventually grew beyond just being a tool for building blogs – it became a full-blown CMS.

That’s great for building information-dense, text-heavy websites.

But the web is so much more than that now.

Continue reading Gutenberg & the building blocks of an online presence. →

Thanks to Jetpack for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.

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.

With Jetpack’s Affiliate program you can earn 20% for every sale of Jetpack to your customers and clients. And with unlimited referrals, the sky’s the limit! Refer as many clients and contacts as you can, and get paid for every sale you generate.

Make your site work for you. Get your Jetpack today at Jetpack.com

Thanks to BoldGrid for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.

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.

Experience WordPress as a website builder, including: free pre-built themes, drag and drop editing, integrated image banks, simplified photo editing, built-in staging, automated backups, and so much more.

BoldGrid will have you creating professional looking WordPress sites in minutes!

Thanks to Boom Host for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.

Headquartered right here in Toronto, Boom Host provides cost-effective enterprise-grade Managed WordPress hosting under a single-tenant model using SSD powered dedicated Virtual Private Servers.

Boom Host also offers the additional choice of optimised WordPress hosting under our shared hosting model which make use of powerful SSD dedicated servers with no overselling. We’ll help you choose which is the best option for you!

Our servers are physically located in the Greater Toronto Area, helping your website load even faster for your regionally-targeted audience. We specialise in carefully engineered Canadian data privacy and protection, security, and performance backed by an unrivaled commitment to 24×7 technical support and assistance.

As a proud Canadian company, we provide billing in our native Canadian dollar. (USD billing’s also available if you need it.)

Why wait? Get the reliable and lightning-fast Canadian WordPress hosting that your website and its visitors deserve!

Thanks to Bluehost for helping make WordCamp Toronto 2018 possible.

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.

The following is a guest post from our sponsors at DreamHost.

Pop quiz – Where can you go in 2018 AD to see raptors walking through maple leaves? (And ok, let’s just assume Jurassic Park is still in ruins.) The answer is Toronto!

DreamHost loves Toronto!

Once we realized that sponsoring WordCamp Toronto would mean we could SEE raptors with our own eyes, we knew what we had to do.

Continue reading Hello from DreamHost! →