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Supercharge WordPress with tools that help you to blog better and faster — all by activating a single plugin. Jetpack is a suite of great add-ons that are fully supported by the team behind WordPress.com.
With Jetpack…
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ZippyKid is a managed WordPress Hosting company, the fastest WordPress Host ever. We live, eat, & breathe WordPress which means we do WordPress so much better.
ZippyKid offers reliable, secure and cost effective web hosting solutions that keep your website up and running. Content Delivery Network (CDN) is included on all plans, this means content is served from servers closest to your visitors. Partnering with Rackspace, our networks & servers, along with the top 5,000 sites in the world, are located in enterprise class data centers. This give us the ability to offer you high network connectivity and security you need to ensure you your website is always accessible to your users.
WooThemes is an international bootstrapped business leading the WordPress frontier, a platform to build and transform standard WordPress-powered websites into slick, functional business tools. WooThemes offers stunning, innovative themes and plug-ins created by some of the world’s most talented designers and developers, the Woo Ninjas. With WooThemes and now WooCommerce, people and businesses can get professional WordPress sites launched quickly with the features, customizability and performance they need right out of the box.
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ManageWP is the world’s first and finest all-inclusive WordPress management console that gives users full power and complete control in managing virtually any number of WordPress sites with ease. ManageWP’s ultimate goal is to provide its users with the power to Manage, Monitor, Backup, Deploy, Publish, and Secure all of their WordPress sites on a virtually unlimited scale, without the hassles of dealing with every-day management tasks.
Designed for WordPress users, by WordPress users, ManageWP was created with a focus on revolutionizing the workflow of content managers and producers both large and small. ManageWP prides itself by tackling the issues of management, security, accessibility, and efficiency that becomes necessary when managing any number of sites with the world’s premiere content management system.
Providing efficient and effective solutions to specific problems is what ManageWP is all about. The ability to schedule automated backups for unlimited WordPress sites gives content managers peace of mind. Clone and migration tools provide web hosts, web developers, and corporations with an incrediblly cost-effective method to rapidly deploy ready-to-use WordPress sites. Integrated SEO and monitoring tools give marketers and SEO specialists a birds-eye view of site performance. And so much more.
With ManageWP, we have taken the focus off of WordPress — we put it where it matters most: your content, your readers, your customers.
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Infomedia was founded in 1994, when the Internet was just emerging as a tool accessible to the public. Internet capabilities have grown dramatically since then, and so have we. We have developed more than one thousand websites, and have created custom on-line solutions for clients in a wide range of industries including retail, real estate, construction, professional services and transportation. An Internet pioneer, Infomedia’s earliest clients included AOL, CNN/SportsSouth and The Southeastern Conference. Infomedia has been an industry leader in helping businesses integrate Internet resources into their businesses.We put the web to work for our clients every day.
Sucuri Security is the leading provider of web-based integrity monitoring, malware detection and cleanup solutions – delivered as a service. Sucuri solutions are deployed remotely in a matter of minutes anywhere in the world, allowing our customers to immediately detect and remove web-based malware and monitor their internet presence. Sucuri’s web monitoring solution is used today by more than 30,000 sites worldwide.
In simple terms, we clean up the mess. If your site gets hacked, blacklisted or infected with malware, we fix it for you. If your site is clean, we monitor it to let you know if a problem ever happens. We work fast, we’re affordable, and we get things done. Just ask any of our previous clients.
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Rackspace® Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
BraveNewCode Inc. (est. 2008) is a WordPress plugin shop with its offices in Canada. Since that time it has developed several WordPress themes and plugins, developing and designing with a standard of quality that has become renowned in the WordPress community.
They’re best known for their stand-out WordPress plugins: WPtouch & WPtouch Pro (mobile theme add-on), WordTwit & WordTwit Pro (Twitter publishing suite for WordPress).
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The mission of Weld for Birmingham is to be the premier source of local news and information for Birmingham’s most active and engaged citizens, and to provide the region with a common online gathering place, a virtual public square for discourse and action. Since its inception, Birmingham has been a community defined by its divisions. That’s why we weld — our job is to create connections and bridge the rifts that have thwarted Birmingham’s rich potential. With our soon to be open blogging network, Weld is leveraging WordPress to democratize media in the Magic City. Through our weekly print product, Weld extends its virtual presence into the physical world. At the same time, Weld gives businesses and organizations way to connect to new customers and acquire new clients with innovative online ad options and cross-platform marketing solutions.
The Samford School of the Arts gathers majors in aspects of art, graphic design, theatre, church music, music education, music theatre, instrumental music (band and orchestra), theory, music history, vocal/choral music, piano, pedagogy, organ and composition. Minors include art, theatre, music, dance, film and the arts. Find out more at http://arts.samford.edu
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The Alabama Social Media Association (ALsocme) is a professional nonprofit organization open to anyone who wishes to share ideas or advance their knowledge of social media and how it is used by businesses, organizations, and consumers.
ALsocme’s mission is education: empowering individuals, businesses and community organizations with social media tools and knowledge to help them meet their professional goals. ALsocme supports Alabama’s digital growth and works to grow its recognition as a technologically advanced and forward-thinking state.
