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Show your Support for WordCamp Cape Town!
Show your support for WordCamp Cape Town by displaying our official WordCamp Cape Town badges on your website or blog. They have been crafted by The Forge, one of our Silver Sponsors. Also remember to stay up to date with … Continue reading Show your Support for WordCamp Cape Town!
Speaker Spotlight: Jess Green
Not a WordPress expert, but a lover of WordPress – Jess has built a few WordPress websites, first by developers doing it for him, and then himself, and in the process learnt how clients should be handled.
Interview: Nur Ahmad Furlong
Nur Ahmad Furlong, better known online as Nomad One, has been involved with WordPress since 2006. Nomad has been a lecturer at Friend Of Design and can be found online at http://www.nomad-one.com/ or on Twitter: @nomadone How did you get into WordPress? How has … Continue reading Interview: Nur Ahmad Furlong
Speaker Spotlight: Matt Geri
The latest top notch speaker to official join the line up at this year’s WordCamp Cape Town is Matt Geri, self confessed WordPress Geek and Mobile champion. Matt will be blowing our minds on the Tech/Development track with a session … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Matt Geri
WordCamp Cape Town 2011 Venue Change
We are very happy to announce that we have secured the Atlantic Imbizo as the new Venue for WordCamp Cape Town 2011! The positive response and interest in WordCamp Cape Town 2011 has necessitated that we upgrade to a bigger venue to … Continue reading WordCamp Cape Town 2011 Venue Change
Interview with Plugin Developer Shaun Alberts
Shaun Alberts has written 2 plugins for NextGEN Gallery, NextGEN Gallery Voting and NextGen Gallery Custom Fields. With over 50 000 downloads between the two, the endeavour has not proven profitable, as he only has $32 in donations to show … Continue reading Interview with Plugin Developer Shaun Alberts
WordCamp Cape Town 2011 on Twitter
Follow all the updates on the Official WordCamp Cape Town 2011 Twitter account @WordCampCT We’ve also changed over from the hashtag #WordCampCT to #WCCT as the new official Hashtag for WordCamp CT.
Speaker Spotlight: David Mugo
We want to welcome David Mugo as an official speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. David is one of our international speakers, all the way from Kenya. The organizer of WordCamp Kenya, blogger, and social media & technology consultant, David … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: David Mugo
Speaker Spotlight: Fred Roed
We are very happy to confirm Fred Roed, of World Wide Creative and the Heavy Chef project as a speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. Fred will be hosting a session on Community, and it’s place in marketing strategy.
Speaker Spotlight: Jeff Pearce
We are happy to confirm Jeffikus Pearce – Jeffikus for those in the know – lead developer at WooThemes and WordPress wizard as speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. Jeffikus will be hosting a session on our developer track on … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Jeff Pearce
Speaker Spotlight: Craig Strachan
We are happy to welcome and confirm Craig Strachan as a Speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. Craig will be hosting a session on our Blogger Track and sharing his knowledge on syndicating your blog across platform and growing your … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Craig Strachan
Sponsor Spotlight: The Forge Web Creations
The Forge Web Creations have been crafting beautiful and functional WordPress websites since 2000. We are very happy to have them on board for WordCamp Cape Town 2011 as Silver Sponsors. Special thanks to The Forge for the WordCamp CT 2011 website theme, with … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: The Forge Web Creations
Speaker Spotlight: Oluniyi D. Ajao
We are very happy to announce that Oluniyi D. Ajao of Web4Africa will be joining us at WordCamp 2011 all the way from Ghana. Oluniyi will host a session on the Blogger track and tell us all about maximising WordPress … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Oluniyi D. Ajao
Sponsor Spotlight: WooThemes
I tracked down Mark Forrester one of the co-founders of WooThemes, who are a Gold sponsor and we are really happy to have their support. WooThemes are the leading premium theme company in the WordPress world with 40k users.
Speaker Spotlight: Jason Bagley
Another local WordPress expert has been confirmed as a speaker, Jason Bagley from Whitespace. Jason will host a session on the Developer track. We asked Jason to tell us a bit more about his talk and his thoughts on WordPress.