Applause For Gold-Level Sponsor SiteLock

SiteLock

If you’re not already familiar with SiteLock, we are a global website security company protecting over 12 million websites worldwide, with over 4 million of those sites powered by WordPress. SiteLock delivers a patented 360-degree website security solution to find, fix and prevent malware and other threats from affecting websites and their visitors.

Founded in 2008, the SiteLock cloud-based suite of products includes automatic malware scanning and removal, an advanced web application firewall, static application security testing, PCI compliance and website acceleration powered by a global CDN.

Applause For Bronze-Level Sponsor WPML

WPML

WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites. WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 500,000 commercial websites from all over the world.

More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org

Lunch Feature: Hefty Gyros

The Heft Gyros Food Truck is one of four popular Sacramento food trucks that will be on hand for a delicious lunch at WordCamp Sacramento 2018.

Hefty Gyros is a family owned and operated food truck that serves delicious, authentic Mediterranean cuisine with Turkish, Greek, and Middle-Eastern culinary influences.

Hefty Gyros’ rice plates and falafels are packed with flavor and made to order — and everything is made from scratch. Their goal is serving the very best sustainably raised food possible, with an eye to great taste, great nutrition, and great value.

Here’s a rundown of the Hefty Gyros Truck Menu for WordCamp Sacramento:

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Meet The Speaker: Brian Bourn

Brian Bourn

Brian Bourn is managing partner at Bourn Creative, a full-service design agency and Genesis recommended developer. He has been working with WordPress since 2009 and has created over 170 custom WordPress sites. With a passion for business, an eye for design, and a predilection for code, he provides consulting for small to medium-size businesses, works with clients around the globe on website strategy, and brings their vision to life through UX design and development. Brian is a big believer in giving back and supporting the WordPress project and community and volunteers his time as lead organizer for the monthly Sacramento WordPress Meetup.

We’re thrilled to have Brian onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about him. Check out our mini interview with Brian below:

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Meet The Speaker: Stewart Savage

Stewart Savage

Stewart Savage is a website designer, graphic designer, photographer, and videographer for his business, Abaton Consulting. Stewart has been involved in the technology field for over 20 years with experiences ranging from desktop support to network management. Since 2009 he has focused on using WordPress to provide a full suite of website design services for small businesses and non-profits in Davis, CA and Northern California.

Outside of website design, Stewart keeps a busy schedule. At home, he is a husband to a wonderful wife and a father to a wonderful daughter. As an artist, he shares his love for ceramic arts by teaching pottery classes at two local art studios. With what time he has left, he enjoys backyard BBQs and sampling regional craft beers with his friends.

We’re thrilled to have Stewart onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about him. Check out our mini interview with Stewart below:

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Applause For Silver-Level Sponsor GoDaddy Pro

GoDaddy Pro

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.

You can use GoDaddy Pro with all of GoDaddy’s newly refreshed hosting products, including Managed WordPress, cPanel shared hosting, our brand new cloud product, and our virtual and dedicated solutions.

And, always get the best price on GoDaddy products with your “30% off list price” member benefit.

Learn more about GoDaddy Pro.

Meet The Speaker: Jeremy Hawes

Jeremy Hawes

Jeremy Hawes is a project manager and front-end developer for website and software applications. He served in the military for five years, including two tours of duty in Iraq/Kuwait, where he worked in the headquarters of one of the largest transportation battalions in theatre and helped develop a convoy tracking and predicting database to help improve convoy forecasting. After leaving the military he pursued a degree in business management while help building a non-profit from the ground up, which still is running in the Del Paso Heights area of Sacramento.

After obtaining his bachelor degree he began a business in Sacramento where I offered web design contract services and helped build websites for businesses like SMUD, California Crane School, AAA Crane Services, and more. Our team grew and we became one of the lead third-party plugin developers for a software called RapidWeaver. Our company still today develops one of the largest collections of Themes and Stacks (similar to Plugins) under the name One Little Designer. In 2015, he began working for a fast growing company in Sacramento, Capitol Tech Solutions. Today he is the lead front-end developer and helps manage the design and development of websites using platforms including WordPress, Shopify, NationBuilder, RapidWeaver.

He is married with five boys, so when I’m not working I’m usually out doing some fun and adventurous kid stuff… or taking a rest from it.

We’re thrilled to have Jeremy onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about him. Check out our mini interview with Jeremy below:

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Lunch Feature: Squeeze Inn

The Squeeze Inn Food Truck is one of four yummy Sacramento food trucks that will be on hand for a delicious lunch at WordCamp Sacramento 2018.

If you’re a Sacramento local, you probably have already heard of the infamous Squeeze Inn… and maybe you’ve even been lucky enough to eat there! But did you know they have a food truck?

At the Sacramento County Fair Media Day, I got to preview cheeseburgers from Squeeze Inn and let me just say cheese blanket. OMG. I know for many of you, your mouth is going to water just walking over to their food truck at WordCamp!

Here’s a rundown of the Squeeze Inn Truck Menu for WordCamp Sacramento:

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Meet The Speaker: Heather Hogan

Heather Hogan

Heather Hogan has been making websites for a long time. She has taken on many roles in the communications sphere including: webmaster, designer, developer, artist, project manager, event coordinator, and marketing specialist. She has had the pleasure to work with organizations like the Sacramento Public Library, The Nature Conservancy, The World Economic Forum, Sacramento State University, and the City of Rocklin. Currently, she divides her time teaching web design at Sacramento City College, coordinating web and marketing for Sierra 2 Center, juggling freelance web projects, and making fine art.

We’re thrilled to have Heather onboard as a speaker at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 asked a few questions to help you get to know more about her. Check out our mini interview with Heather below:

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WordCamp Sacramento 2018 is over. Check out the next edition!