Thanks again to our wonderful sponsors!

Posted on by Mukalele Rogers

We couldn’t have made WordCamp Jinja 2022 possible – at such a low price for attendees – without the generosity of our sponsors listed below.

  • Bluehost

    Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005, and powers over 2 million websites across the world with reliable hosting and personalized guidance. By leveraging the power of WordPress, Bluehost provides the fast website creation methods coupled with intuitive management tools. From secure automated WordPress installations to advanced marketing tools and services, and access to specialized WordPress experts, Bluehost is the best place to build, grow, and scale an online presence.

  • Cloudways

    Cloudways is all about simplicity and freedom for agencies and online businesses. From the choice of five industry-leading cloud providers to 1-Click platform operations, Cloudways ensures that your visitors do not have to face slow loading websites and security issues.

    Just like you, we live and breathe WordPress! Cloudways is proud to sponsor WordCamp Europe 2022. Our managed hosting for WordPress and WooCommerce takes away cloud server-related learning curve so you can scale your website the way you want.

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  • E-zone Web Services

    Ezone Web Services (EWS) is a creative and dedicated ICT solutions provider with a portfolio in Web Design & Development, Hosting and Digital Marketing. EWS specializes in solutions that meet your online needs to suit and build your brand. EWS was started by teachers and works most with schools.

    EWS has offered free hosting server space for beginners and for the website hackerthon to be held during the WordCamp.

    Connect with EWS:

    Website: https://ezonewebservices.com/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ezonewebs

    WhatsApp: +256706060740

  • ICT Teachers Association of Uganda

    ICT Teachers Association of Uganda (ITAU) is a network of teachers of ICT across all levels of education in Uganda. ITAU exists to promote ICT literacy and Integration in all subjects in Education and other spheres of daily life.

    ITAU Mission is “to be the lead engine in uniting, organizing and empowering teachers to share, innovate and advocate for ICT integration in education.” ITAU Vision is “a society in which ICT Teachers are empowered to pass on relevant skills to all learners and support other teachers to effectively use ICTs in teaching and learning.” The motto of the Association shall be “Together Against Computer illiteracy”.

    ITAU is supporting WordCamp Jinja by mobilizing teachers from allover the country to attend and learn WordPress. There will be a special workshop track focused on WordPress training and learning resources and approaches teachers can use to teach it to their students for web design exam purposes, projects, elearning and business generally.

    Connect with ITAU:

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ictteachersug

    Facebook: https://facebook.com/ictteachersug

    Website: https://www.ictteachersug.net/

    Email: info@ictteachersug.net

  • Jetpack

    Safer, faster WordPress. 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.

  • MRK WP

    MRK WP is a company that offers WordPress development, marketing and consulting services for your digital journey. With over 20 years in web industry, MRK WP are certified SEO specialists as well!

    Whether you are a marketing agency, a web developer, or a business owner, MRK WP make it easy to create great experiences for your customers on the web. Get in touch with our team today to discuss your digital requirements – and discover how you can be helped outperform your competition!

    Connect

    Website: https://www.mrkwp.com

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrkwordpress

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO2GcBObiCDXq_NOaCGiHWg

  • Nexcess, A Liquid Web Brand

    Nexcess provides a fully managed, high-performance, and best-in-class cloud solution built to optimize WordPress and WooCommerce sites and stores. For over 20 years, our holistic, hands-on approach to managed products and solutions has provided users with tools that help them create better websites and e-commerce stores along with expert, on-demand support. By removing the stress of managing the day-to-day operations of their site or store, we afford our customers the ability to PRESS forward and focus more on what inspires them.

    Whether you’re a small business owner, designer, developer, or a small to medium-sized agency, Nexcess has a solution to help you and your business succeed.

  • TechRT

    TechRT, which stands for Technology, Real Time, aims to be a holistic space for all things tech. We talk about anything and everything that comes under the umbrella of ‘tech’ and ‘science.’ Do you want in-depth tutorials and how-to guides on the internet? Do you want to know about the recently launched smartphones? Do you like to stay up to date about the top tech companies? Well, TechRT has got you covered.

  • The Innovation Village – Ideas to Life

    The Innovation Village (TIV) is a destination entrepreneurs call home. TIV purposes to deliberately grow innovation by putting in place a platform that challenges assumption, ignites thought and questions status quo. As a launchpad for innovators, TIV brings together partners, startups, investors and researchers to act as one force for good.

    When TIV spread its wings to Eastern Uganda in 2020, Jinja was chosen as its host city. Located on Plot 5, Main Street in the heart of the industrial town, the innovation ecosystem which is home to entrepreneurs from a region with approximately 33 districts, is also ushering the region into the Fourth Industrial Revolution through merging network, talent, capital and physical assets. The end goal is to create a destination that grows businesses that matter and are centered around solving the biggest industry and community challenges.

    Read more on TIV website

    Follow on @TheVillageUG Twitter

  • Weglot

    Weglot is a WordPress multilingual plugin to translate and display your website in multiple languages. It provides a fast, first layer of automated translation which you can easily edit yourself or by adding teammates, or collaborate with pro-translators through the Weglot dashboard. Trusted by more than 50,000 website owners and developers and with a 5-star rating on the WordPress directory (1000+ reviews) – you can have a multilingual website up and running in minutes. Key benefits include:

    • Simple and quick set-up
    • Multilingual SEO best practices (translated URLs & metadata)
    • Compatibility with any Themes and Plugins (incl. WooCommerce)
    • Automatic and human translations
    • A unique dashboard with an ‘in context editor’, easily edit translations & invite teammates to collaborate on projects
    • Expert support: a fully dedicated technical support team at your disposal

  • WooCommerce

    WooCommerce is a free, open-source commerce platform built on WordPress. We empower anyone, anywhere, to sell anything with truly unlimited extensibility, flexibility, and control over how they build and evolve their business.

    WooCommerce is developed and supported by a distributed team at Automattic, creators of Jetpack and WordPress.com. For more, go to WooCommerce.com.

  • WordPress.com

    WordPress.com offers managed hosting — a service that is 100% dedicated to hosting WordPress open source software for optimized performance. Managed hosting is a great option for people who don’t want to deal with the backend technical operations of running a website.

    You get all the power of WordPress, professionally managed and hassle-free, including:

    • Speed: WordPress.com earned Top Tier status in the WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks review with perfect 100% uptime on both monitors, zero errors across both load tests, and the fastest WP bench of any company in any price tier this year.
    • Powerful, built-in SEO: All of our themes are optimized for search engines, which means they are designed to make it easy for the Googlebot (and other search engines) to crawl through them and index your content.
    • Ironclad security: Our systems and security teams are vigilant about protecting your site and personal data. That’s why we’re trusted by some of the most high-profile sites on the web.
    • Hands-on support: Get world-class dedicated support from our happiness engineers, educational courses, and webinars.
    • Peace of mind: We make it easy to get started and maintain your site with automatic version updates and real-time silent backups, so you’ll never worry about losing your site content.

  • Yoast

    About Yoast
    Optimizing your site for the search engines can be difficult and is often time-consuming. At Yoast however, we want to make SEO available for everyone. Because everyone should have equal chances to rank in search engines! For those who want to save some valuable time and get the most out of their website, there’s the Yoast SEO plugin! To this day, our Yoast SEO software is active on more than 12 million websites!

    How does the plugin help you?
    If you want your site to do well in the search results, readable content is incredibly important. To make improving readability easier, Yoast SEO offers a readability analysis. Next to that, the plugin supports you by handling technical stuff in the background, like building a solid linking structure, and automatically generating a lot of structured data for your site.

    There’s more!
    But hey, that’s not all we do! In addition to Yoast SEO, we developed a few other plugins that help you manage your SEO. And if you always want to keep on top of the latest SEO news, then our free monthly SEO news webinar is worth checking out! Want to know more about our company or our community involvement? Read on at yoast.com.