Marc Gratch

I am a WordPress Consultant, a lifelong student, a husband and father. I have been developing themes and plugins for WordPress since 2.8 (give or take a point release,) with a strong focus on simple, specific, niche functionality. Most everything I know about code comes from the WordPress community which is why I try to give back as much as I can. I love the WordPress community!

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FIU MODESTO A. MAIDIQUE CAMPUS MIAMI, FLORIDA

Welcome Aboard!

Feel the breeze in your face and settle into the Miami sun. WordCamps are not just for users. They’re ideal for any first-designer, developer, blogger, writer, entrepreneur, etc!

WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.

Call for Speakers

Join the adventure and become a speaker for WordCamp Miami 2020. Last day to apply is December 15th.

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Call for Sponsors

Are you interested in sponsoring one of the largest WordCamp events in the US? Help lead the way to make this event even more unforgettable!

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Call for Volunteers

Volunteer to share your skills and talents before and during the event. Become part of the team today!

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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.

GoDaddy Pro

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. Check out the Free Tools

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

The Makers Of The Web build websites for others. We share a common purpose: helping people create and grow their online presence. In 2020, we’ll do more to bring this global community of Makers together, online and offline.

Makers Of The Web, Unite. We plastered this proclamation across our booth, swag, tweets, and Insta posts.

But what is it all about? Who is a “Maker Of The Web”?

A Maker Of The Web is someone who builds websites for others. You don’t need to be a coder. You don’t need to do it full time. If you build sites for other people, you’re a Maker Of The Web.

We want to bring the Makers Of The Web together, online and offline. So, starting in 2020, our Makers Of The Web community program will:

Support and promote local community groups
Sponsor local groups to help cover their expenses, like venue booking & food
Lead by example, as we start a new series of local groups for Makers Of The Web

SiteGround

SiteGround hosting is your ticket to a high-performance website that’s easy to manage. Our sophisticated hosting solutions are crafted for personal websites, online businesses, web development agencies, and enterprise projects. Our hosting comes with WordPress-specific features customers love and smart development tools that help agencies scale their businesses. Getting started, migrating a site, optimizing web performance, and managing a WordPress development business has never been easier thanks to our in-house tools designed for busy WordPress webmasters.

Since 2004, we empower people to build better, faster, and safer websites by managing the hosting for them. Our mission to power awesome websites is why SiteGround is actively involved in the WordPress community and WordCamps at a global scale. We’re proud to sponsor WordCamp Miami and support the local community.

Wordfence

Wordfence is the most popular WordPress security solution, protecting over 3 million sites. It includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Our Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security option available.

Learn more at https://www.wordfence.com.

WPBeginner

WPBeginner is the largest free WordPress resource site with over 600,000+ subscribers from 190 countries around the world. Founded by Syed Balkhi in 2009, WPBeginner has always helped users learn how to make the most out of WordPress. WPBeginner offers free videos and step by step WordPress tutorials for beginners.

WPBeginner has guides like how to start a blog, how to make a website, how to choose the best WordPress hosting, best WordPress plugins, and more. If you’re brand new to WordPress they even have a page for just starting out.

The team at WPBeginner is also behind popular WordPress plugins that power over 9 million websites including: OptinMonster, WPForms, MonsterInsights, RafflePress, and SeedProd.

Visit WPBeginner // Twitter @WPBeginner // Facebook Group WPBeginner

Kinsta

Kinsta takes managed WordPress hosting and performance to the next level. Powered by Google Cloud Platform and their lightning-fast “premium tier” network, WordPress users can choose from 20+ data centers around the globe. They host all types of sites, from small blogs up to Fortune 500 customers.

Their auto-scaling and container technology allow for complete isolation of resources, ensuring your business stays online during traffic surges and is secured like Fort Knox. You’ll have peace of mind with their hack fix guarantee. Need help? They offer 24/7 support 365 days a year from their team of expert WordPress engineers.

Kinsta is proud to be developer-friendly offering support for complex installations such as Bedrock, reverse-proxy configurations, with access to tools such as SSH and WP-CLI on all plans.

Get started today at kinsta.com. Their team will migrate you for free!

WP Engine

WP Engine is the WordPress Digital Experience Platform that gives companies of all sizes the agility, performance, intelligence, and integrations they need to drive their business forward faster. WP Engine’s combination of tech innovation and an award-winning team of WordPress experts are trusted by more than 120,000 customers across 150 countries to provide counsel and support, helping brands create world-class digital experiences. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in Brisbane, Australia; Limerick, Ireland; London, England; Omaha, Nebraska; San Antonio, Texas and San Francisco, California.

GiveWP

GiveWP is proud to sponsor and be a supportive part of the WordPress Community.

With over 70,000+ active installs and more than 350 five-star reviews, GiveWP is the highest-rated WordPress plugin for accepting online donations. Upon activation, GiveWP provides nonprofits with powerful fundraising tools including customizable donation forms, in depth reports, and comprehensive donor management for your cause.

GiveWP is built by Impress.org. Located in San Diego, CA, our company has grown to employ professional WordPress developers, marketers, and support technicians from all over the world. Our plugins are intuitive, actively supported, and well documented. Find out more about us.

A2Hosting

A2 Hosting is your high powered WordPress hosting provider and proud sponsor of WordCamp Miami again this year! We cater to our clients by offering scalable hosting accounts, which run on robust servers, at an affordable cost. As part of our commitment to the WordPress community, we sponsor a great number of WordCamps and WordPress MeetUps around the globe.

As our business has grown, so have our product lines, and we are compelled to give back to this great community that has given so much to us. Additionally, in 2018, we launched a Managed WordPress hosting solution. This service was built with the needs and wants of the WordPress community in mind; providing you with an enhanced WordPress environment that cultivates both creativity and prosperity. We offer all the tools needed to successfully run a scalable, fast, and secure WordPress site out of the box.

A2 Hosting is proud to support WordCamp Miami and the WordPress community so that this fantastic community continues to flourish. Stop by our table and say hi!

Pantheon

Pantheon includes all of the tools professional developers need to build best-practice sites—like staging environments, version control, backups, and workflows. Powering over 200,000 sites and billions of pageviews a month, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security, or performance. It’s free to develop your site on Pantheon, you only pay once your site goes live. You can scale your site on the same infrastructure from day one, and never touch a server again. Create your free account now!

Gravity Forms

Millions of WordPress sites rely on Gravity Forms to collect their most critical information. With our easy-to-use, visual form builder, you can create and launch all kinds of forms on your WordPress website. You can build anything such as advanced contact forms, newsletter opt-ins, user registration forms, surveys, quizzes, checkout forms, and more in a matter of minutes.

Plus, Gravity Forms integrates with your favorite 3rd party services like HubSpot, MailChimp, Zapier, PayPal, Stripe, and many more. Gravity Forms is the most trusted WordPress form builder with world-class customer support when you need it. Intuitive enough for a beginner to use, with advanced features that let a developer’s imagination run wild. With Gravity Forms, the possibilities are endless.

Nexcess

Experience Managed WordPress from Nexcess, a member of the Liquid Web Family of Brands. When digital professionals want to optimize site performance, increase security, and scale to grow with the best support in the industry and access to the latest technology stack, they choose us. For 20 years we’ve provided agencies with the ability to deliver the outstanding experience their clients expect. Built on the four pillars of speed, security, scalability, and service, our solutions are designed to help every website realize its potential. Visit Nexcess.net today to get started.

Jetpack

Jetpack is a powerful collection of security and performance tools made for WordPress sites by the WordPress experts.

Proven security tools keep your site backed up, online, and hack-free.
Fast-loading pages mean happier visitors.
Everything in a single package — so you can focus on your business.

Learn how Jetpack helps you secure and speed up your site at jetpack.com.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the most customizable eCommerce platform to build exactly the store you want. From physical products to digital downloads, services, and subscriptions, sell worldwide with the freedom of WordPress. WooCommerce is developed and supported by a distributed team at Automattic, creators of Jetpack and WordPress.com. For more go to WooCommerce.com.

5+ million active installations
84+ million downloads
Options for new, growing, and enterprise-level stores
450+ official extensions to add features and functionality

Hover

With hundreds of domain extensions, no heavy-handed upselling and best-in-class support, Hover makes it easy to spend less time on your domains and more time on your big idea.

FIU College of Business

Business Success on a Global Scale

The Florida International University College of Business remains worlds ahead in preparing Undergraduate and Graduate Business students, as well as, life-long executive learners for leadership roles in the global market.

This is where entrepreneurial passion meets academic leadership…
It’s the school U.S. News and World Report, Bloomberg Businessweek, CEO Magazine, Fortune Small Business, Hispanic Business and many other respected publications all rank as exceptional…
It’s where you gain exciting new opportunities to stretch your capabilities on a bigger, more impactful scale … all within South Florida’s dynamic, high-powered business community.

Ranked Top 5% Elite

FIU College of Business is among the top 5% of elite business schools worldwide accredited by the AACSB International – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

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GreenGeeks

GreenGeeks is an independently owned and operated hosting provider.

Our specially engineered platform offers WordPress users web hosting that is designed for the fastest, most secure and scalable hosting available in multiple data centers. Our WordPress hosting makes deploying and managing WordPress websites easy with automatic 1-click install, managed updates, real-time security protection, automatic install/renewal of Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certificates, SSD RAID-10, storage arrays, PowerCacher and expert 24/7 support to make for the best web hosting experience.

Since our launch in 2008, GreenGeeks has been the industry’s leading eco-friendly web hosting provider putting back 3 times the power we consume into the grid in the form of renewable energy. We are based out of Los Angeles, California with a global workforce that provides a better web hosting experience to customers from over 150 countries.

GreenGeeks is actively engaged within the WordPress community and is a proud sponsor to various WordCamps around the world.

Twitter Handle: @goGreenGeeks
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/greengeeks

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ForGravity

ForGravity takes your Gravity Forms workflows and supercharges them to save you valuable time and protect your forms.

Entry Automation saves time automating common actions. Simplify everyday Gravity Forms maintenance tasks such as exporting and deletion with automatic scheduling.

Fillable PDFs makes generating PDFs from Gravity Forms quick and easy. Store generated PDFs locally, populate PDFs with digital signatures to create contracts in seconds and import PDFs to use as the basis of a new form.

Advanced Permissions protects your Gravity Forms. Lockdown forms and form entries on a granular level. Blocking or providing access as needed to staff, students, clients and other users.

Gravity Flow

Turn your paper forms, lists, follow-up calls and emails into efficient workflows, securely stored on your own server.

Gravity Flow was built to bring a sense of order to business processes to make them simpler, more efficient and more transparent.

With easy to use drag and drop tools, Gravity Flow helps create clear processes for your forms which can include any number of approval steps, feedback loops or branches based on conditional logic.

Learn more about how Gravity Flow can work for you.

InMotionHosting

For nearly two decades, InMotion Hosting has empowered individuals to bring their businesses, hobbies, and dreams to life on the internet. Offering one-stop, custom solutions for getting fast and reliable WordPress Hosting, InMotion Hosting has you covered from domain registration to enterprise solutions with dedicated hardware.

Our managed platform for WordPress is fine-tuned to deliver superior performance, security, and provide best-in-class hosting. Our developer-friendly platform allows for flexibility, so each project and build can be done with confidence and ease.

We love WordPress, and that’s why it’s important to us to sponsor a number of WordCamps and WordPress MeetUps like WordCamp Miami.

It’s also why we employ more than 200 tech experts who know that amazing customer service starts with comprehensive training. Our customer support teams get over 80 hours of training to give you the best 24/7/365 customer support and experience.

Agency

SlickRemix

SlickRemix was founded by two brothers who have a passion for WordPress plugin development. We created a social plugin called Feed Them Social (https://wordpress.org/plugins/feed-them-social/) which now has over 80,000 active installs, over 400 five-star reviews and 2 million downloads on the WordPress.org repository.

Feed Them Gallery Our latest plugin, Feed Them Gallery (https://wordpress.org/plugins/feed-them-gallery) was developed with Photographers, Developers, Artists, or just someone looking to sell their photos, or if you are just looking to create awesome, easy-to-use Galleries. With this plugin you can create and display clean image galleries. We have 4 different layouts you can choose from and many options to configure the look and feel of the gallery on your site. We’ve also made it super easy for you to connect your galleries to WooCommerce. In one click, you can easily turn a Gallery into a ZIP and WooCommerce product. You can also, in one click and based on a model product, turn EACH individual photo into a WooCommerce product saving you MANY HOURS of tedious product creation!

Feed Them Social With Feed Them Social you can create social feeds on your website from your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube or Pinterest account. You can create as many feeds on a website as you want and the feeds are fully responsive. Feed Them Social also has extensions for Facebook Reviews and for those who want to mash up multiple social accounts in one feed we offer an extension called Combined Streams. Check out the full list of extensions we offer at: https://www.slickremix.com/

At SlickRemix, we strive to give the best WordPress plugin experience by keeping up with WordPress standards and backing our products with a fast, helpful and friendly support team.

Web Ventures

Web Ventures, a portfolio of digital companies, acquires and invests in WordPress businesses, such as plugins, cool software, and other solutions. The vision of Web Ventures is to make WordPress users lives easier by offering solutions that make their business more successful.

Recently, Web Ventures acquired W3 Total Cache, a WordPress web performance optimization plugin, and Elegant Marketplace, a WordPress vendor marketplace.

Web Ventures announced in 2019 a $5,000,000 commitment to invest in WordPress based companies. If you want to learn more please schedule a call with us.

Web Ventures Lead Hand Shaker Mike Demo will be on-site at WordCamp Miami to announce the next two products joining our family and network with our fellow WordPress community members.

Community

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WebDevStudios

Acne Design

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Esther's Domain Web Development

United Restoration Florida

Crowd Favorite

Propel Your Company

Nicolae Borza

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GoDaddy Pro

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

Makers Of The Web, Unite. We plastered this proclamation across our booth, swag, tweets, and Insta posts.

But what is it all about? Who is a “Maker Of The Web”?

A Maker Of The Web is someone who builds websites for others. You don’t need to be a coder. You don’t need to do it full time. If you build sites for other people, you’re a Maker Of The Web.

We want to bring the Makers Of The Web together, online and offline. So, starting in 2020, our Makers Of The Web community program will:

Support and promote local community groups
Sponsor local groups to help cover their expenses, like venue booking & food
Lead by example, as we start a new series of local groups for Makers Of The Web

Wordfence

Learn more at https://www.wordfence.com.

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