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Sponsor Spotlight: DevPress.com

 DevPress.com is a collaboration between Patrick Daly, Tung Do, Ptah Dunbar, and Justin Tadlock. Their goal is to create well designed, flexible, high-standard themes and plugins that can be used by anyone – from the newbie to the expert developer. They have … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: DevPress.com

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Speaker Spotlight: Roy Foubister

Roy, started his career life as a network engineer in South Africa then moving to Botswana. A natural progression happened as he moved from networks to servers after gaining an “old school” MCSE qualification while managing the Barloworld Botswana infrastructure. … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Roy Foubister

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Speaker Spotlight: Nur Ahmad Furlong

Nur Ahmad Furlong develops Communications which are “Human Centric”, in other words, facilitating the new ways in which people are starting to interact and communicate by helping companies speak to people in their own language. Nur have been involved with … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Nur Ahmad Furlong

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Sponsor Spotlight: WPMU DEV

 WPMU DEV is arguably the best WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress resource and support site on the web. They offer plugins, themes, support and direction backed up by years of experience as developers and operators of their own WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: WPMU DEV

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Sponsor Spotlight: Splashing Pixels

 Splashing Pixels is Premium Theme provider that specializes in e-Commerce Themes. We are very happy to have them on board as a Silver sponsor. Splashing Pixels have also sponsored 10 Premium Themes for our attendees that will be up for … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: Splashing Pixels

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Speaker Spotlight: Joe Botha

Joe Botha will share a few insights from his use of WordPress. He’s been using WordPress for about five years as a startup entrepreneur and photographer.   Tell us a bit about yourself I’m a Cape Town based serial entrepreneur, photographer … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Joe Botha

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Sponsor Spotlight: ThemeWarrior

ThemeWarrior was founded on July 2010 by Yogi, a web designer from Jakarta, Indonesia. We sell premium WordPress themes, so literally WordPress runs in our blood.

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Speaker Spotlight: Rafiq Phillips

 Rafiq Phillips is a Cape Town based SEO Specialist, Social Entrepreneur and Innovator. He will be presenting a session on the Importance of SEO as a part of the Publisher Track. Tell us a bit about yourself SEO at MIH SWAT by day Web … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Rafiq Phillips

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Sponsor Spotlight: Event Espresso

Tell us a bit about your business. How do you use WordPress? We built a plugin for WordPress that allows site owners to manage all aspects of event management and registration.

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Sponsor Spotlight: Obox Mobile

 Obox are creators of quality premium themes across multiple popular publishing platforms including WordPress, Tumblr and Posterous. Why WordPress? Since we started Obox in 2006 we always wanted to create templates which we could use for client projects. Initially we made … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: Obox Mobile

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Speaker Spotlight: David Perel

David Perel is the co-founder, designer and product manager at Obox design, a Premium Themes company based in Cape Town. David founded the company along with his brother Marc, and beyond themes Obox has become known for the Obox Mobile WordPress … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: David Perel

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Speaker Spotlight: Marc Perel

Marc Perel is the co-founder of Obox Design along with his brother David. Obox is a professional Premium Themes company also known for Obox Mobile, their WordPress Plugin which converts your site to be mobile friendly. Marc will be participating in … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Marc Perel

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Speaker Spotlight: Byron Rode

 Byron Rode is a Web Developer, Professional Photographer and the Co-founder of Tangram – a digital agency focusing on brand, website development and design, mobile applications and internet consultation. Byron will be hosting a session on our Tech/Development Track about Improving Ease … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Byron Rode

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Food, Refreshments and the WordCamp After Party

WordCamp will be a day packed full of WordPress goodness, giving attendees the opportunity to meet and rub shoulders with our amazing Speakers, Sponsors and each other. All this networking can be thirsty work and can definitely not be done … Continue reading Food, Refreshments and the WordCamp After Party

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Sponsor Spotlight: GabfireThemes.com

We are very happy to welcome Gabfire Themes on board as a Bronze Sponsor. Gabfire Themes is a distinguished design and development studio providing simplified and sophisticated WordPress themes for Web Publishers. They have been extremely generous in sponsoring one free theme for … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: GabfireThemes.com

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