Applause For Gold-Level Sponsor Jetpack

JetPack Sacramento WordCamp Sponsor

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.

Jetpack sends new content directly to your subscribers’ inboxes and shows readers related content, helping you increase page views per visitor and boost ad revenue. Whenever you need it, you can rely on priority support from our global team of WordPress experts to ensure a friction-free experience for your visitors — and for you.

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

Meet The Speaker: Bodie Quirk

Bodie Quirk

Bodie Quirk is a geeky Christian Pastor from Southern California who loves how WordPress makes it easy for anyone to share what they know and serve others with their knowledge. Despite knowing nothing about web design, he took on the project of updating his church website and although he did pretty much everything wrong, he continued to learn and improve with WordPress (mostly from the help of others). In 2016, he launched YouCanLearntheBible.com, the online home for all of his Bible teachings, organized as free online courses. He has published 6 courses with over 200 video-based lessons. He is passionate about online learning and believes that everyone knows something that someone else wish they knew.

We’re thrilled to have Bodie 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 Bodie below:

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Meet The Speaker: Marla Todd

Marla Todd

Marla Todd is a writer and artist based in Orangevale, CA. She lives with her husband, daughter, and assorted hilarious cats and dogs. Using the pen name “Juliette Kings” Marla writes the parenting/urban fantasy blog Vampire Maman: An interesting hybrid of family and societal observations from the perspective of a mother who also happens to be a vampire. That Vampire Maman, aka Juliette, is a highly innovative and insightful writer with a gift for creating a fantasy world within a “real” world context. (From monkeybellhop.com). Marla is a founding member of the publishing group WPaD (Writers, Poets, and Deviants), and has contributed numerous stories to their anthologies.

We’re thrilled to have Marla 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 Marla below:

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Applause For Silver-Level Sponsor DreamHost

DreamHost WordCamp Sponsor

DreamHost is proud to be a sponsor of WordCamp Sacramento 2018!

Here’s a crazy statistic! On average we have 1.8 WordPress installations for every single customer at DreamHost. That’s a whole lot of WordPress all over our servers. With WordPress powering over a quarter of all sites on the web, it’s hard to see why anyone wouldn’t get excited about its incredible ability to give voices to the voiceless through lovingly-crafted lines of poetic code.

DreamHost supports WordPress with our time, with our talent, and with our technology. We’ve built incredible managed WordPress hosting options like DreamPress that make it run like lightning!

WordPress brings the creativity of people and the power of computers together in a way that few platforms have been able to accomplish. The WordPress community is incredible and never ceases to amaze us! It’s full of thousands of helpful people, all focused as much on improving the core platform as it is to ensure that anyone who wants their voice heard online gets that chance.

WordCamps take the best of the WordPress community and bring it offline. WordPress users, designers, and developers of all skill levels gather together for two days of learning and networking in one of the most supportive environments you’ll find in the tech world.

We’re thrilled to be sponsoring WordCamp Sacramento this year and can’t wait to hear your stories!

Meet The Speaker: Chris Lema

Chris Lema

Chris Lema has been building eCommerce sites since 1997, back when it would take a lot of time, cost a lot of money, and still didn’t work perfectly. Today he’s the VP of Products at Liquid Web, where he’s designed and launched a new platform dedicated to WooCommerce stores.

We’re thrilled to have Chris 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 Chris below:

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Meet The Speaker: Blair Williams

Blair Williams

Blair Williams is a Software Developer and Online Entrepreneur. Blair has been developing websites, web-apps, and plugins for almost 20 years. Some of his past clients have included Raytheon, AMC, and FranklinCovey. For the last ten years, Blair has been focused on developing software and businesses around WordPress. He’s the creator of several popular plugins for WordPress including MemberPress, Pretty Link & Affiliate Royale and currently runs a full-time business that supports them.

We’re thrilled to have Blair 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 Blair below:

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Meet The Speaker: Justin Lee Doyle

Justin Doyle

Justin Doyle is the Lead Designer at Tytanium Ideas Inc. He has about 13 years experience in web design. He worked for a high-end marketing company based out of Utah before starting his own company and then selling it to Tytanium Ideas in 2017. Now he spends his days applying his skills to large design projects that help scale businesses.

We’re thrilled to have Justin 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 Justin below:

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Meet The Speaker: Jamie Schmid

Jamie Schmid

Jamie Schmid has a particular passion for creating excellent content experiences. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, she has been working as a WordPress freelancer and consultant since 2012, regularly taking sites from conception through a well-managed build process that encourages communication, planning, and smart use of content. She has a background in Information Architecture and Content Strategy and a big ol’ enthusiasm for all things WordPress. Now living in Portland, OR, Jamie is a Community Evangelist for SiteLock, traveling the country and helping build awareness of website security best practices and solutions.

We’re thrilled to have Jamie 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 Jamie below:

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Meet The Speaker: Sallie Goetsch

Sallie Goetsch

Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with ‘sketch’) has been online since 1985. She hand-coded her first HTML website in 1994. Since discovering WordPress in 2005, she hasn’t looked back. Sallie’s consultancy, WP Fangirl, places a strong emphasis on content strategy and building profitable websites that are a pleasure to use. Sallie has been organizer of the East Bay WordPress Meetup in Oakland, California, since 2009, and has presented there on topics ranging from podcasting to learning management systems to e-commerce to event management. She has also taught WordPress classes for Mediabistro, acted as Technical Reviewer for O’Reilly’s WordPress: The Missing Manual, and produced training videos for Peachpit Press. Sallie is a regular panelist on the WP-Tonic Roundtable and loves speaking at WordCamps.

We’re thrilled to have Sallie 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 Sallie below:

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Meet The Speaker: Corey Walker

Corey Walker

Corey Walker is the owner of The Marketing Specialist, a digital marketing agency in El Dorado Hills, California. She is also the co-author of Instagram for Business for Dummies, a how-to guide for using Instagram to market your business. Corey works with several clients to produce social media strategies, including creating graphics and written content, scheduling content, buying ads and tracking analytics. She loves helping businesses achieve success in the online world!

We’re thrilled to have Corey 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 Corey below:

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