Current Sponsors

Gold - $3000

WooCommerce

WooCommerce 28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution. 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.

Jetpack

Jetpack

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

Bluehost

Bluehost

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.

Silver - $2000

GoDaddy

GoDaddy

GoDaddy Pro offers a robust suite of free tools to web developers & designers to help them save time managing all their clients and sites. With GoDaddy Pro, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage all their WordPress websites from one place. Exclusive time-saving tools let you update WordPress core, plugins and themes with one click, as well as automate WordPress backups, cloning and migrations. Get real-time performance, security and uptime monitoring across all your websites. Additionally, your free membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support.

When you pair GoDaddy Pro with GoDaddy hosting products, the benefits are even greater.

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DreamHost

DreamHost

Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers worldwide bring their dreams to life on the Internet. A leader in Managed WordPress hosting, over 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. Supporting the open source community with dedicated resources and a passionate team, DreamHost believes in the power of the Open Web and the people that make it happen. Learn more at DreamHost.com.

Bronze - $1000

BoldGrid

BoldGrid

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!

www.boldgrid.com

Siteground

Siteground

SiteGround with over 14 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 4 data centers on 3 continents, are optimized for ultimate WordPress speed and security and they provide many goodies for the WordPress fans – automatic updates for the core WordPress and its plugins, WordPress SuperCacher for ultimate speed acceleration, staging tool for the coders and unique WordPress auto installer for the starting users – all crafted in-house by the SiteGround team. And still they do not forget the importance of the good old standard hosting features like the domain name registration, the email service, control panel and the reasonable pricing. They also have a support team that is not only available 24/7 by phone, chat and ticketing, but consists of WordPress enthusiasts who will help you with specific WordPress issues. SiteGround has been actively involved with the community speaking, supporting and attending various WordCamps around the world and by sponsoring WordCamp Toronto, they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.

BoomHost

BoomHost

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!

Weglot

Weglot

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.

https://weglot.com/wordpress-translation-pluginWeglot

 

Major Tom

Major Tom

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 strategymarketingdevelopment, 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.

Major Tom

Hover

Hover

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.

http://hover.com

 

WPToronto Supporter - $125

David Gilbert Voice Over Ltd.

As a professional voice over artist, I specialize in helping businesses and organizations with all of their voiceover or narration needs.

https://www.davidgilbertvoiceover.com/

Kinsta

Kinsta is one of the fastest growing managed WordPress hosting provider exclusively powered by Google Cloud Platform. Kinsta focuses on performance and expert WordPress support for their clients. The Montreal data center is very popular among Canadian WordPress users.

https://kinsta.com

Speedyrails

Speedyrails is an Ottawa-based managed cloud hosting provider. With over 12 years of experience in managing and scaling up websites and applications, they specialize in creating tailored web hosting solutions to suit the individual needs of their customers. Proudly Canadian, Speedyrails has datacenters in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver so you can keep your data close to home.

Speedyrails offers comprehensive Managed WordPress Hosting plans.

https://www.speedyrails.com

Webtemple

Webtemple is a Toronto based website design and development service that pushes the limits of WordPress by building and maintaining complex websites and web-apps on very affordable budgets.

https://webtemple.ca

Paul & Gina Bearne

We are a web consultancy based in Southern Ontario, Canada, serving both a local and an international client base.

We focus on WordPress, specializing in creating highly performant, scalable, accessible and SEO friendly code (plugins, themes and WordPress based applications) for large WordPress sites that are often multi-site, multi-language, VIP and/or e-commerce. We love writing clean, fast code that does its job elegantly and effectively and makes for a great user experience. And, as WordPress specialists, we know how to do things the WordPress way, embracing the framework rather than fighting it!

http://bearne.ca/

WebHostingRatings.ca

WebHostingRatings.ca helps future and current Canadian websites owners who are looking to start a website or a business online to choose the right web hosting company for them. We based our recommendations based on the web host’s price, reliability, technical features, ease-of-use and customer support. We also have a section dedicated to Canadian WordPress hosting.

https://www.webhostingratings.ca

Tastic Marketing Inc.

Tastic Marketing is a Full-Service Digital Marketing Agency based in Toronto, Canada. They take a uniquely strategic approach to marketing that has proven to provide superior value and results. Tastic Marketing’s customers range from global enterprises to exciting new start-ups; they are typically businesses who understand the need for competitive high-quality services, and value a partnership with an agency that truly cares. Tastic Marketing is proud of the great relationships they have with their clients as they become an extension of their internal team. Tastic’s core services include conversion optimized web design, SEO and paid advertising.

https://www.TasticMarketing.com

Steve Puddick

webrockstar.net is the personal website of Steve Puddick – Web Developer. It includes details on his premium plugins, free plugins, and his blog about WordPress and the web. He is always interested in meeting others who work with WordPress and learning about what they do. Steve is the Senior Web Developer at the Liberal Party of Canada.

webrockstar.net

Uncanny Automator

Uncanny Automator makes it easy to build great user experiences and automate routine admin tasks on your eLearning, eCommerce and membership sites by connecting your plugins and apps together. With Automator, your plugins and apps can “talk” to each other; when something happens, something else happens. Add event attendees to BuddyPress groups while tagging them in Infusionsoft, or unlock bonus content for users when they fill out a survey. With millions of recipe combinations, you can slash development costs and build fantastic user experiences for your site in minutes.

https://automatorplugin.com/

Wisevu Inc

Experts in SEO and Website design in Mississauga. Specializing in local search engine optimization and NPO non-profit organization SEO.

https://www.wisevu.com

Hydrogen Tennis Clothing North America

Hydrogen is one of the leading Italian Luxury Sportswear brands. Hydrogen stands out as the first company that produces luxurious sportswear and numerous limited editions in co-branding with excellence brands also not properly connected with fashion.

https://luxsportswear.ca

BrightSite

Providing WordPress centered site design and marketing services to professional clients. Our goal is to combine effective Digital Strategy, Web Marketing and Site Optimisation, ensuring our customers derive real value from their web presence.

http://www.brightsite.to

WPUP Inc.

WPUP is a personal concierge service that focuses on providing peace of mind for WordPress websites, by proactively updating, upgrading and monitoring all aspects of the site.

https://wpup.co